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Why Homeschool?

The first step to homeschooling is making your decision to home educate your child. It is important to become informed and knowledgeable about some of the main concerns you may have. Explore these areas of our website to learn more about the initial decision to homeschool.

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Careful Study Finds Homeschool Advantage
Reviews a carefully done study that uses a matched-pair design. This research shows that students in structured homeschooling academically outperform conventional-school students, and there is no evidence that the difference is simply due to the family’s income or the mother’s educational attainment.
AmblesideOnline Facebook Group

This Facebook group supports homeschooling parents using AmblesideOnline, a free curriculum based on the methodology of Charlotte Mason. You'll get support, ideas, strategies, and discussions about how to best implement a Charlotte Mason education in your home education. Connect with thousands of other homeschoolers using this curriculum. 

Red Mountain Life Learners (RMLL)
Red Mountain Life Learners is an East Valley network of unschooling families focused on life learning. Members are expected to support the group by sharing their passions i.e. organizing group activities such as field trips, park days, foreign language classes, chess club, camping trips, drama, yoga, art and cooking classes, etc.
Homeschooling with Minimal Academic Structure
A look at a relaxed homeschooling methodology, a mix between book work and unschooling.
Professor B Math
Professor B Math delivers world-class mathematics and national precedents by means of a unique perspective on children's real gifts for learning mathematics.
Working With the Media
Working with the media often involves granting interviews. Christine Webb discusses the basic of interviewing, with eight points for giving an interview to a reporter.
What is Montessori Education?: A Beginner's Guide to the Montessori Classroom
A basic primer on the nature of a Montessori school and classroom. No two Montessori schools look exactly the same. Each will be responding to the needs of individual children and to differences in the society and culture they are part of; teachers will also bring in their own special skills and interests. This article discusses the learning of practical skills, the use of sensorial apparatus, learning cultural subjects, math, and language, social skills, and more.
8 Preschool Math Ideas Using Toy Vehicles
These fun math activities use simple toy cars to teach ordinal numbers, sorting, counting, number recognition, subitizing, patterns, colors, and addition.
HS1Mom
This is a list for single moms who homeschool their children. This is open to all single moms, no matter what type of curriculum they choose to use. It is predominantly a Christian list -- though others are welcome, also.
10 Honest Reasons Parents Choose to Homeschool and the Politically Correct Defense We Hide Behind

There are so many reasons to homeschool. Is everyone's reason different or are there common reasons we homeschool? While there are lots of answers to smooth over any uncomfortable probing questions from strangers and sometimes family, these reasons are honest reflections of the choices of homeschooling family. 

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