BEST HOMESCHOOLING ADVICE WE'VE RECEIVED

Read lots of books on homeschooling before you begin.  A personal favorite: Homeschooling by Heart by Kristina Sabalis Krulikas.

Don't stress yourself too much in the elementary years.  Enjoy your child.

Every time the children worked on a constructive project outside, they would spend the next one to three hours involved in some inside activity with intense concentration.  Penny Barker, quoted in The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook.

Realize that children learn at different paces.  Some children want to read at age 5, and others aren't ready until age 10 or older.  Guess what?  The children who read late still grow up to be successful.

Don't bring school home.                                                                                                                        

Train your children so that having them in the house all day is not a problem, but a pleasure.   A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola

Be wary of methods used in home education which reflect the same bad practices which have proven to be unproductive in conventional schools, such as early formal pressures to read, many workbooks, programs which require a lot of close work before videos or computers - epecially during the first ten to twelve years, lack of adult encouragment, and an imbalance in work and service.  The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook, Dr. Raymond & Dorothy Moore