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June 2008

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What Makes A Healthy Homeschool?

A place where parents are honored as the authorities.
Parents who are patient and content.
Whole foods.
Plenty of living books.
A peaceful home atmosphere.
Children who have room to learn who they are and what their interests are.
A place where teaching children to love learning is a cornerstone!
Respect.
Freedom from pressure to fit into someone else's idea of "cool."
A place where love lives.
A place where children are seen as whole individuals and not test scores!
Being willing for change.
Yearly choices that reflect what is best for everyone.
A sense of humor.
Realizing that all homeschooling families are different.
Not comparing yourself too much with other homeschooling families.

Resources to Create Your Own Healthy Homeschool

Simply put, homeschooling is educating a child at home. In reality, homeschooling covers a wide variety of teaching philosophies and basically applies to any family who has made it a personal mission to make learning at home a way of life. That said, creating a healthy homeschool atmosphere will be a different endeavor for every homeschooling family. It's one of the beautiful privileges of homeschooling!

The method by which the child is homeschooled can be any of a number of popular or less mainstream ways of teaching. There's classical, unit study, Charlotte Mason, unschooling, eclectic, and many more traditional, textbook-based, prepackaged curricula to choose from. In fact, there's even -- gasp! -- use of the public schools as a means to accomplish a homeschool education.

Here at The Healthy Homeschool, you will find many homeschool resources, including homeschooling articles, homeschool curriculum reviews, homeschool encouragement, homeschool message boards, answers to some common questions about homeschooling, and much more to help you create a healthy homeschool that fits your individual family circumstances! Enjoy!

Homeschool Newsletter and Tips

Occasionally, The Healthy Homeschool sends out tips, homeschool information and notification when something new has been added to our site! We respect your privacy and will never share your e-mail address with anyone!

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To Think About...

"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow."
William Blake

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."
Louis Mercier

"A learned man has always wealth in himself."
Latin proverb

"My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me. I felt that I had someone to live for -- someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me."
Thomas A. Edison

"You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be --
I had a Mother who read to me."
Strickland Gillilan

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
Henry Ward Beecher

"A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap."
Danish proverb

"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand."
Chinese proverb

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