Do parents have a constitutional right to homeschool their children? Not according to a California District Court judge, who recently ruled that a child must be schooled “by a person holding a... Read more >>

Should I send my child to public or private school? It’s a question many parents grapple with. I know, as my kids neared the end of preschool, my husband and I sure did ... Should we keep... Read more >>

Socialization: this is such a hot button for me. I have been asked that one question thousands of times over the last sixteen years of homeschooling. There are two sides and honestly, they are both... Read more >>

Tonight my son, Stanley, went to a meeting about his upcoming high school graduation. He never attended public school. He is in his fifth semester at the University of North Alabama as an early... Read more >>

Every college has different rules and different names for dual enrollment programs but they are prevalent throughout the nation. Some colleges offer several hours of tuition free classes and cut the... Read more >>

When I first heard about the notion of unschooling, I agreed with much of it in principle. I knew that my kids learned an awful lot of stuff without any help from me. Babies learn to crawl, toddlers... Read more >>

Today, an estimated 3 million students are homeschooled in the United States, a growth from the 850,000 who were homeschooled in 1998 (Lips & Fienberg 2009). As more and more families join the... Read more >>

A few months ago, after being scared to death upon hearing another parent talk about the waiting lists, competition, etc. to get into a good preschool in Chicago, Ricky and I decided that even though... Read more >>

Help, Y3K came early! Our phones and computer were out all day yesterday. Yes, that’s all day—24 plus hours of outage. So goes the perks of having Digital Voice phone service. Now, I... Read more >>

When our middle daughter Madison was in preschool, we noticed that she was not learning as fast, or processing things as well as our first daughter had at that age. We didn’t think much about... Read more >>