A few years ago, when I first started homeschooling, I remember wanting more than anything to know what my typical day would look like. I was so thankful for Simplehomeschool.net's posts on a day-in-a-life-of... homeschooling series. It was then that I realized that homeschooling days look different for each family. And in fact, each family's day-to-day looks different as well. That is the beauty and the freedom in home-educating your children.

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One of the things I love most about homeschooling is that our days are unique and never look the same. My children are all still young so we are able to move through our day without a strict schedule. I find that having anchors in our day is where we find our rhythm and balance. My favorite days are the...

~ By Joey

When my wife, Heidi, first mentioned that she might like to home school our oldest son, Caleb, I was... less than excited. I didn't want him to be that weird and awkward kid with little to no social skills. The kid that can tell you all the good local repeaters and their frequencies for his HAM radio but who can't carry on a normal conversation with his peers. I know that I shouldn't stereotype, but that's what immediately came to my mind.

Now I am not opposed to nerds (I am one) or HAM radio operators (I am one of those as well), I just wanted our kid to be "normal." Then again, what does "normal" really mean? In the years to come (yes it took years), I have not only been convinced that home schooling was where God was leading us, but I have also started to question my definition of "normal" and whether or not I even want my kids to even be "normal". I can't remember all the turning points in my journey toward home schooling, but I can list five reasons that I am in...

~ By Heidi

Homeschooling for us didn’t just happen; God literally led us to it. For some reason before having kids, both Joey and I had a very negative image of homeschooling. But God used our kids to change us. Our oldest child had a quiet, introverted personality, and at the age of three, I knew we were going to have to keep him home for Kindergarten. Even though it was three years away, I knew school would crush him. I started attending homeschooling conferences and reading books about it. By the time Caleb was six and ready for Kindergarten, I was sold on homeschooling. It took Joey a little longer though. He wanted me to homeschool until third grade and then introduce Caleb to school and “socialize” him. I didn’t want to homeschool without Joey’s support, so I started praying hard about it and trapped him in the car on road trips to read some of the books I had read. I also coerced him into coming to a Carole Joy Seid homeschooling conference with...