Welcome to “Ask a NextGen Homeschooler…” It’s your turn to ask the writers at NextGen Homeschool — four formerly homeschooled moms who are now homeschooling our children — to weigh in […]
My Biggest Homeschool Blunder: Thinking I’d Be Ready
Being a homeschool graduate could have turned out one of two ways for me: I could have loved the experience and known from the start that I would want to […]
Why We Homeschool: Cristina Eklund
The reasons my husband and I decided to homeschool our two children are many. However, let me first start out with those things that were not our reasons to homeschool: […]
An Unexpected Path to Homeschooling
I’m not what I would call a typical homeschool mom — someone who got fed up with the public school system and made the choice to homeschool. Noooo, not me: […]
A Curious Campfire Conversation
Our summer vacation culminated in a family road trip across scenic Colorado. We wanted to enjoy the end of summer in the snow-free mountains, see some friends along the way, […]
Why We Homeschool: Rosanna Ward
My adventure with homeschooling began in 1984. I was spending the summer in Beaumont, Texas with cousins. About halfway through the summer my dad called and asked me how I […]
NextGen Homeschooling: My Definition
“Homeschooling or homeschool (also called home education or home based learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal […]