We are in our 9th year of homeschooling.
Schooling at home seemed like an appropriate fit when we began. It has morphed into a different mindset over the years. Not the intent just to school in a home environment, but to truly educate these young minds. To inspire them to educate themselves, and become adults who always chase knowledge. It is a privilege, and we believe God’s will, for us to journey on this path. We could never have imagined how it would change all of our lives. To increase our awareness of the world at large.
Now, we’ll have two high schoolers! I’ll be shifting this page to focus more on reviewing products that will help for this age group. It is a new frontier, high school, but an exciting one!
If you have questions, I am happy to help answer them if I can. Use the contact button at the top of the page. Sometimes I will write about this, sometimes I will steer you over to thought provoking pages on other sites. If you are just starting out, or in need of encouragement, these books have been invaluable.
For the parent Books:
Educating the Whole Hearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson- Wish I had this from the start
A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully by Ruth Beechick
How To Create Your Own Unit Study by Valerie Bendt
One Hundred and One Devotions For Homeschool Moms by Jackie Wellwood
The Unschooling Handbook: How To Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom by Mary Griffith
Christian Unschooling by Teri Brown- Whether you agree with the philosophy, you’ll benefit by the encouragement of choice
Any books by Linda Dobson
Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe by Todd Wilson
The Imperfect Homeschooler’s Guide to Homeschooling by Barbara Frank
The Ultimate Guide To Homeschooling Teens by Debra Bell- For High School this is awesome, no need to fear!
How To Get Your Child Off the Refrigerator and Onto Learning by Carol Barnier- This book was so helpful with distractable child
To Help:
Highly recommend membership in HSLDA, Home School Legal Defense Association – Their resources are priceless
Catalogs I love:
Timberdoodle
The Rainbow Resource
The Vision Forum
Sonlight Catalog
Magazines:
The Old Schoolhouse -been helping me since day 1
Homeschool Enrichment- first place I was ever published!
Eternal Encouragement - Formerly known as TEACH, still has great homeschool resources
Want to read my latest homeschool article? Crosswalk.com has it posted at http://www.crosswalk.com/family/homeschool/high-school/the-gift-of-time-extending-high-school.html
“The Gift of Time” originally published in The Old Schoolhouse magazine
