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Getting Started

• What is the "Zone"?
• The Future of Education in America
• Why should I homeschool?
  • What's wrong with the public-school system in America
  • Identifying a child with violent tendencies
  • Faces of Home Education
• What about socialization?
  • Building Self-Esteem
  • The breakdown of the traditional two-parent family
• Is homeschooling right for me?
  • What do I do the first year?
  • "Your Trusty Homeschool Emergency Kit"
  • Characteristics of a successful homeschooling parent
  • "So, What Made You Decide to Homeschool"
  • "Why Do You Homeschool?"
  • "Homeschooling Without Reason"
  • Dealing with negative people
• Qualifications for parents
  • "Am you qualified to homeschool?"
  • Can parents be teachers?
  • Can a single parent homeschool?
  • Can working parents homeschool?
• Making time for each other
• Is homeschooling expensive?
  • Is it tax deductible?
  • "The Frugal & Wise Homeschool Budget"
• Worried about school violence?
  • What should I do with bullies?
• Getting organized
  • Forming a Homeschool Cooperative
  • Umbrella Schools & "accreditation"
  • Homework Tips
  • Math Help
  • Science Help
    • Birds
    • Bats
    • Manatees
  • Writing Help
• Teaching styles & curricula
  • What is the best way to teach my child?
  • Are there different styles of learning?
  • The Seven Human Intelligences
  • Nebel's four teaching strategies
  • Positive Thinking for Kids
  • "unschooling"
    • Waiting for Homeschooling to Work
    • Learning Through Everyday Life
    • Adult Unschoolers
  • "de-schooling"
  • "Afterschooling"
    • Summer Learning by Osmosis
  • Christian-Based Learning
  • Secular Education
  • Support groups?
    • Developing Your Own Support Group
    • African-American homeschooling support
  • Maintaining your child's interest?
  • Volunteerism
    • Lessons of Volunteerism
• Curricula
  • "The Truth About Curricula"
  • Dobson's Tips on picking the "right curricula"
  • Curriculum Guides @ amazon.com
  • The Arts & Sports
    • Art Ideas
    • Dancing Homeschoolers
    • Homeschooling Harpist
    • Homeschooling Moviemaker
    • Homeschooling Tennis Champions
    • If I homeschool, can I use the local schools for sports, music and other subjects?
    • "opting in for music at Pub school"
    • Shakespeare Theatre for Hs'ers
  • Christian focused education
    • Christian education on a budget
  • Math Ideas
  • Reading & Phonics ideas
    • Auditory Training & Reading
    • Five Components of Reading
    • Luring the Noninterested Reader
    • Musical Letter Learning
    • Phonics
    • Writing Ideas
    • "Bob Books"
  • Montessori
  • Science Support
    • Science ideas
    • Planting a Gour-den
  • Spanish (FREE lesson)
• Grade level
  • Celebrating Milestones
  • Preschool to High School
  • Curriculum Guides & amazon
  • Preschool & Grade School
    • Nebel's Elementary Education (K-5)
    • Montessori
  • Middle school
  • High school
    • Top Ten Reasons to High School Homeschool
    • FREE Teen Homeschooling Ideas
    • Taking College Courses in High School
      • High Schooler Becomes College Student Body President
      • Homeschool Teen on the National Scene
    • "Teenage Liberation Handbook"
  • Getting into College
    • Can a homeschooler make it to college?
    • College Applications - Putting It All Together
      • Do you need a diploma?
      • How to write a diploma
      • Transcripts vs. Portfolios
    • Financial Aid & Scholarships
    • "We Made It!" - Homeschool Graduates
    • Alternative Paths to College
    • "Getting Ahead of the College Game"
• Special Kids
  • ADD and special kids
    • "What’s Wrong with My Child?"
    • "How to Nurture Compassion in Your Special Child's World"
    • "Can I homeschool my child with special needs?"
    • ADD & Biofeedback
  • Asperger's Syndrome
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Dyslexia
  • Explosive Children
    • "Special" kids having problems
    • ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
  • Gifted kids
  • Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  • Speech Disorders
• Legalities & Records
  • Homeschooling Laws
  • Recordkeeping
  • How do I get a diploma?
• Testing
  • Do I need to test my kids?
  • SAT?
  • GED?
• Where can I find educational resources?
  • Distance & Alternative Learning
• Where do I go from here?
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"The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child"
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
by Linda Dobson
Are you considering homeschooling for your family? Linda Dobson has created a comprehensive guide which will help you determine the appropriate first steps, build your own educational philosophy, and discover the best ways to cater to your child’s specific learning style. In this interview with Linda, we had the opportunity of chatting about: why her homeschooling book helps parents with the "grand educational experiment" of first year; picking the right curriculum; can parents be good homeschooling "teachers"; the most important thing that a beginning homeschooler needs to know; finally she shares with us a FREE excerpt of her book where she shatters a myth of homeschooling, "Myth #4: You Need Teacher Training, Dearie!" I hope you enjoy reading the interview as much as we did doing it. Also, if you have any questions for Linda, please send them to us.

Home Learning: Year by Year & Home learning Sourcebook
Meet the author Rebecca Rupp
"The Truth About Curricula"

All the Math You'll Ever Need:
A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)
by Steve Slavin

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Math Curricula & Ideas
Review by author Rebecca Rupp
It's a self-teaching guide for math basics, supposedly targeted at teenagers and adults who need math review. It covers multiplication and division, decimals, fractions, percents, negative numbers, algebraic equations, exponents, square roots, ratios, basic geometry,    rate/time/distance problems, interest rates and some other business math, simple statistics.

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