Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Homeschooling

This page contains articles that will help you get started homeschooling. Would you like some ideas on the best way to remove your child from regular school? What are the homeschooling laws? Once you've brought your child home, what do you do now? Should you set up a specific place in your home to homeschool? We will make an ongoing effort to answer these questions and more - with articles on this page. Please check back regularly, as more articles are being posted all the time.

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How We Got Started Homeschooling
This is our own family's story about how we got started homeschooling. We wish we would have done it a lot sooner than we did.

How To Remove Your Child From Public School
Sometimes the hardest part of beginning to homeschool is removing your child from public school. There are many ways to do this and this article gives you some good ideas.

Homeschooling Moms Need To Take Care Of Themselves
It is really important for homeschooling Moms to take care of themselves. Here are the things that I do to take care of myself while I am homeschooling my children.

Socialization In Homeschooling
How are homeschoolers socialized? Here we dispell the myth that homeschoolers don't learn any socialization skills.

DeSchool Before You Homeschool
This article talks about deschooling. Deschooling is the process of 'unlearning' the regular school environment and transitioning to homeschooling.

How To Tell Your Family You Are Homeschooling
Do you have disapproving family members and friends? If someone thinks you're crazy to homeschool, check this article out.

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