How To Do It: Training Your Child’s Mind Without Losing Your Own
Get some guidance here about how your days will look, what outside support groups you should join, how to keep good records, when to ask for help with learning challenges, and what to do when you just want to quit.
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Finding Others The Well-Trained Mind Community Our online forums (general parenting and home schooling, curriculum advice, special needs, high school and beyond) are a daily gathering place for thousands of parents to share advice, resources, encouragement, and the occasional photo of a celebrity in a kilt. Read more »
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Finding Others Should you join an organization? Should I join a homeschool organization?
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Yearly Testing: How to Do It Many states ask you to submit standardized test scores to demonstrate your student’s yearly progress. Yearly standardized testing can be done fairly easily, but there are many, many many tests out there.
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Daily Life Burning Out: An Audio Workshop If you’re feeling stressed, flat, and discouraged with your home school, it could just be a bad week...or it could be an important signal that you should change course. In this audio lecture, Susan Wise Bauer helps you know ...
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Home schooling regulations by state Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. Find out what laws you need to follow in your home state!
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Well-Trained Mind Fourth Edition What Is Twice Exceptional? Twice exceptional students need to be challenged intellectually, but also require careful remediation and assistance in the areas where they struggle.
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping High School Transcript Forms Which format should my child’s transcript take? Here are a few suggestions.
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Finding Others Should I Join a Co-Op? Susan Wise Bauer helps you with a question many new home schoolers ask: Should I join a co-op in my area? Her answers may surprise you.
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State & Local Organizations State Home School Groups Check out these well-maintained indexes of state and local home school organizations.
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Other Resources for Learning Challenges Resources for Dysgraphia Dysgraphia, often related to dyslexia, is a learning disability that affects handwriting ability and fine motor skills.