Forum: Homeschooling Styles

I have a daughter who will begin Kinder soon, another daughter who will begin Pre-K and a son who is just learning to walk so we won't worry too much...

I'd love to hear how CM works with older kids--I find myself drifting closer to the Classical model as Jazz (currently 12) gets older.

After yrs of struggling with my child (she is 14 now) and "schooling" I have just discovered that she is a Visual Spatial learner and am very excited...

Every year I vacillate between unschooling and curriculum. I swear I have adult ADD, and I get so bored teaching. It drives me crazy. I think it...

I'm not an unschooler, but I am very relaxed and really like do "follow the child" on their interests. Over the years we've put together a large...

I have spent the greater part of the day on the computer compiling reading lists. We are covering the Fall of Rome through the Age of Exploration in...

We have always been eclectic and very relaxed in our homeschooling. DD is middle school level and I have an outline of what Id like to do next yr....

I just wrote out this really lengthy post and I hope that it's not too long for this place! My family has gone from public school, to home school...

Just thought we could get an idea of who uses this method. So what do you use? Are you a purist or mixed or inspired? I've played with Waldorf...

Hi all - I'm mom to one (soon to be two) - Oscar's nearly four. We're homeschooling and plan to through preschool, perhaps (likely) beyond. I'm...

Hi, I'm Susanna & I have a 5y.o. son & three infants, one 6 months, and two two months. For all intents and purposes, triplets. At the moment I have...

I am not interested in straight Robinson, but I am leaning more and more to the independent, good books idea. If you are doing a form of it, I'd...

We have followed The Well-Trained Mind loosely for the first few years. I have to say that Story of the World was a total disaster in our home. ...

What homeschool method(s) do you use, and why? I love hearing about what others do & their reasons for doing it. Did you choose your method(s) based...

I'm making a challenge to my sons this week. I found this great blog post on MakeUseOf about five different tutorial sites on the web. One of my...

I couldn't find a better sub-forum to post this on so I put it here. I figure my main problem is because of the style we use so this is as good a...

Yet another in the long line of unschooling articles that have come about due to the hatchet job, oops, I mean "well researched and balanced segment"...

Do you think state-sponsored online schooling poses any threat to independent homeschoolers? This article got me curious, and I wondered what those...

Don't know if any of you saw the piece on Good Morning America today about radical unschoolers, but it was a doozy. I in no way consider our style...

Unfortunately, it is on the total wrong end of the continent for me, but hope you west-coasters might appreciate knowing about it... Website