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Despite our best intentions, we're not great at keeping this blog updated with our latest happenings. We are, however, definitely an active group, meeting at least once each week during term time.

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(Last updated May 2013)

Friday, March 26, 2010

Weekend Reading - Advice for New Homeschooling Parents

Helpful article here, especially aimed at parents starting down the home education road, and facing all those "Okay, so what do I do NOW?" questions.

From the Home Educator's Family Times


It seems to happen like clock work. The phone at my house starts buzzing off the hook at predictable intervals. The first onslaught of calls usually comes just before or just as school starts up in the Fall. The next onslaught of calls comes later in the academic year, usually in January as the first semester is ending. The calls that I receive at these times are not from parents who are praising schools and all the success their children are having there. Rather, they are from parents who have given school a good chance and just don't want to continue waiting for things to get better. Usually the parents are in despair because, in one form or another, school is not meeting the needs of their child or children. The questions these parents ask are unique to each situation and yet have relatively familiar themes.

For those of you who are new to homeschooling or simply considering its possibility I'd like to share the commonly asked questions that come my way... (click on the title to read the full article)

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