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Homeschool Cash: Can homeschooling be profitable?

(cc) image by Tracy O/flickr I recently stumbled across an advertisement that promises to show you how to make money by homeschooling. I wish I could give you the exact information, but I wasn’t about to buy the ebook to find out about something that seemed too good to be true. I did, however, manage to glean a bit of information from the advertisement. According to the claims in the article, by purchasing the Homeschool Cash program, you can make money by writing about information that you and your children research in the course of homeschooling. I am sure the … Continue reading →

Hands Off Homeschooling

Is it still homeschooling if you are not involved in every minutia of your children’s learning? I like to think so. In fact, I would have never started homeschooling if I thought I had to be. I know myself well enough realize I would have had problems in the patience department. So when a veteran homeschooling friend told me that she spent most of her “homeschooling” time driving her kids to and from various lessons, I knew I could jump on board. From the time when my husband first came home and told me he wanted me to homeschool the … Continue reading →

An Argument Against Homeschooling

In The Article Homeschooling: The Bad and the Ugly, Greg Laden lays out what he believes are the problems with homeschooling. In fact, he feels homeschooling is so bad, in fact, that he says, “If I had to choose right now, I would prefer to eliminate home schooling completely rather than let it continue with these problems.” Although in his defense, he says that if these problems can be addressed openly and honestly, then maybe homeschooling can be saved. Here are the problems he presents: Homeschooling cheats the system. In this case, he equates homeschooling to private school. When people … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Week in Review January 22- January 28, 2007

It has been a busy house here are the homeschool blog at families.com. Here is what we have been up to: Monday January 22, 2007 We started the week talking about homeschooling for others and hiring homeschoolers with I Want to Homeschool Your Child, I Want You to Homeschool My Child, and Homeschool Tutors must Manage Expectations, by yours truly (Andrea Hermitt). Karen Edmisten wrote Read-alouds: The best and biggest benefit, which speaks to the benefits of reading aloud to children. This article was part of a series on read-alouds started the previous week. Learning with Food Network by Karen … Continue reading →

Homeschool Tutors must Manage Expectations

In my previous post, “I Want to Homeschool Your Child” I mentioned that making homeschooling your business could be difficult if you were not prepared for potential problems and challenges. One of the biggest problems one might face in being responsible for the homeschooling of another persons child is managing expectations. Expectations of the parents: If parent hire you to homeschool their child, they will have certain expectations of you, the teacher. Firstly, they will expect you to be familiar with the homeschooling rules and laws in your state so you can advise them appropriately. They will expect you to … Continue reading →