Educate your kid at home (B)

8. Understanding The Way Children Learn: the Learning Process:

• A Lively Curiousity by Gordon Corbett http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/4-1article4.htm
• Are there different styles of learning?
• Basic Trust and the Intelligence of Play by Michael Mindozza http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-4article5.htm
• Brain Research: Implications for Instruction http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/brain.html
• Child’s Learning Assets The natural order of things is that children do their learning “job” by first collecting information so that when it comes time to think in the abstract, they have lots of information to work with. By Linda Dobson [HEM]. http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/166.99/nd_clmn_early.html
• Creativity Is As Natural as Breathing By Marty Layne http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-6article2.htm
• Discover Your Child’s Learning Style We need to stop forcing kids to learn in ways that don’t work for them and start paying attention to the ways that do work. Article in The Link by Mariaemma Pelullo-Wills & Victoria Kindle-Hodson. Highly Recommended * http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/articles/vol4iss3/learnstyle_v4i3.html
• Do Your Children Love to Learn? Part 1; Do Your Children Love to Learn? Part 2 http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-6article2.htm
• Homeschooling: Nurturing Children’s Natural Love of Learning by Jan Hunt of the Natural Child Project http://www.naturalchild.com/jan_hunt/homeschooling.html
• Interests of Our Children (of our children or for our children) by Amanda Bennett http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/3-3article4.htm
• Learning & Exploring Together by Gayle Graham http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/4-1article11.htm
• Learning Styles http://homeschoolfaq.com/learning_styles.htm>
• Learning: What We’ve Learned, New information on how children learn and its implication for schools http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/articlelearning.html>
• Let’s learn about learning styles! There are 4 basic ways people receive information. You will want to choose materials based on how your student is best able to receive and process information. http://members.aol.com/PegFlint/homeschool_learningstyles.html
• Let the Children Play by Jim Muncy http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~muncyj/homeschooling/thoughts.html#Let%20th…
• Lifelong Learning by Jim Muncy http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~muncyj/homeschooling/thoughts.html#Lifelong…
• Make Cookies, Not War: Activities to encourage creative play and thwart the “I want that” syndrome by Gloria DeGaetano http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/cookies.not.war.html
• Playing and Thinking How the Kindergarten Provides a Foundation for Scientific Understanding (Waldorf educational model) by Eugene Schwartz http://www.bobnancy.com/bobnancy.html Highly recommended*
• Readiness – More Vital Than You Think? by Dr. Raymond Moore http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-1article4.htm
• Studying the Interests of Your Children By Kathy Ridpath How can we encourage our children to explore their own interests and participate in independent studies? More importantly, how can we encourage ourselves to allow this to happen? http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-4.htm
• To Do or Not To Do: What Is Age Appropriate? http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/age.html
• The Five Dispositions by http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/willishodson5.htm highly recommended*
• The Independent Learner by scientist Dr Robinson http://www.home-school.com/weekly/a4.html
• The Latest Research on How Children Learn by Pat Montgomery http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-2article3.htm
• Thoughts on Learning Learning has to be meaningful, to make sense; move along a continuum of learning, building on existing concepts, skills and understandings. By Beverley Paine. http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rnbpaine/homeschool/thoughts.htm
• Walt on Learning Styles Ken Pierpont writes from his own experience the quenching he experienced as school interfered with his learning. http://www.christianadhd.com/learningstyles.html
• What Are Children Learning When They Play by Marian Edelman Borden http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/Borden.html
• What Happened to Play? Young children learn from the concrete to the abstract, not the reverse. Education Week article, Feb 16, 2000. http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=23flaxman.h19
• What is the best way to teach my child?
• The 4MAT model entails the use of right and left-brain strategies within four distinct phases of the learning cycle. The theory has had an impact on education, management, problem solving and communication. http://www.aboutlearning.com/4mat/
• There’s no substitute for hands-on experience by Jack Ganssle, contributing editor to EDN, an electronics magazine Have a budding engineer on your hands?,Granssle suggests the best way to educate such a child. Good reading. http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/1997/020397/03COL_01.htm

9. Building Your Child’s Critical Thinking and Logic Skills:

• A Brief History of the Idea of Critical Thinking by CriticalThinking.Org Recommended reading*. http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/cthistory.html
• Aphthonius Progymnasmata [Ancient Rhetoric: an Introduction] http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/rhetoric/prog-aph.htm
• Boosting Your Child’s Creativity http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-9184,00.html
• Content is Thinking; Thinking is Content by Richard Paul http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/content.html
• Critical Thinking: Basic Questions and Answers http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/questions.html
• Defining Critical Thinking: A draft statement by Michael Scriven & Richard Paul for the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction. Recommended Reading* http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/defining.html
• Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/gloss/intro.html
• The Elements of Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder Helping Students Assess Their Thinking http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/helps.html Recommended reading*
• Improving Your Child’s Thinking Skills Recommended* http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-11493,00.html
• Memorization Without Pain http://www.welltrainedmind.com/O00memorization.html
• “Question Authority” Douglas Wilson points out the difference between critical thinking and logic. http://www.home-school.com/Articles/ThinkingAndLogic.html
• Pseudo Critical Thinking in the Educational Establishment http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/pseudo/outline.html
• Reactive and Reflective Thinking: What’s the Difference? http://www.welltrainedmind.com/O99reactive.html
• Resources for Teaching Rhetoric http://www.welltrainedmind.com/J99rhetoric.html
• Six Major Thinking Skills http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-11493-0-1,00.html Highly Recommended*
• Socratic Teaching http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/socratict.html (see also The Socratic Questioning Video Series http://www.criticalthinking.org/bookstore/330S )
• Sparking Creativity in Your Child by Thomas Armstrong Recommended* http://www.ThomasArmstrong.com
• The Basics of Logic” by Douglas Wilson, originally appearing in Classis, the newsletter for the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (Read the article online at http://www.accsedu.org/images/basics.html). Douglas Wilson is also the author of the book “Introductory Logic”
• Three Categories of Questions: Crucial Distinctions http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/3catquest.html
• Why Students–and Sometimes Teachers–Don’t Reason Well http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/Why/1.html
• Universal Intellectual Standards by Linda Elder and Richard Paul http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/unistan.html
• Valuable Intellectual Traits http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/intraits.html

10. Tools of the Teaching Trade For Successful and Effective Homeschooling:

• Contextual Teaching and Learning Strategies Site for teachers http://www.usatoday.com/osu/osu3.htm
• Integrating Across the Curriculum http://www.hometaught.com/integration.htm
• The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers the essay that focused the private schools on training classically http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html
• Seven Laws of Teaching by Renee Mathis http://eho.org/sevenlaws.htm
• Teaching Academic Basics http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/academic.cfm
• Turning A Big Ship Around: Education Adjusts for Multicultural Changes by Dennis Beck excerpt here presents four models for motivating and responsive teaching. http://www.geocities.com/bethcullom/pro_active.html
• What is the best way to teach my child? http://www.homeschoolzone.com/faq/styles.htm

11. Making Progress When The Going Gets Tough:

• A Note of Encouragement by Jane Boswell http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/4-1article12.htm
• Am I doing Enough? http://homeschoolfaq.com/am_i_doing_enough.htm
• Avoiding Burnout by Beverly Paine http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rnbpaine/homeschool/essayson.htm
• Characteristics of a successful homeschooling parent http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/success
• Confessions of a Homeschool Veteran (Our need of Faith, Fortitude and Focus!)
  by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week49.htm
• Cultivating A Spirit of Optimism About Our Children, by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/cultivating__optimism.htm Recommended*
• Cultivating Calmness by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week28.htm
• Encouraging Your Child to Work http://www.welltrainedmind.com/J00work.html
• Encouragement for Homeschoolers By Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-12.htm
• Enjoying Homeschooling! by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week11.htm
• Feeling Frazzled? Take Time to Recharge! by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week2.htm
• Formula for Failure by Tamara Eaton A dozen tips that will turn your mediocre homeschool into a sure failure! http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week35.htm
• Foundations for Successful Homeschooling (A review of Sandra Stone’s Creating the Multiage Classroom) http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/articles/021898.htm
• Homeschool and Housework! by Tamara Eaton Like oil and water homeschool and housework just don’t seem to mix http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week6.htm
• Homeschool Boot Camp: Dealing with Attitudes! by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week47.htm
• Homeschool Management Tips! By Tamara Eaton. With four children in four and a half years, it was a matter of sheer survival for her. http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-1.htm
• Homeschooling in Time of Trials by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week5.htm
• Homeschooling Under Stress by Eileen Benthal http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/7-4article2.htm
• Let’s Get Motivated! (Encouraging Self-Motivated Learners) by Tamara Eaton How do we raise responsible, self-motivated learners? Is motivation taught, caught or inborn –or a combination of all three? http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week50.htm
• The Impudence of Being Bored http://www.covenanthome.com/boredom.htm
• Luring the Noninterested Reader http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/articles/jarvis1.htm
• Maintaining your child’s interest? http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/motivate.htm
• Manic Depression or Just Being Honest? http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Motivation http://www.hometaught.com/motivation.htm
• Motivation: How Do I Keep Them Interested? http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/motivate.htm
• Motivation in Education-Fritz Hinrichs. How classical education can motivate your student. http://www.gbt.org/text/motivation.html
• Motivation Tips By Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-8.htm
• My Kids Won’t Let Me Teach – Ann Leadbetter http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM146.97/146.97_art_kds.html
• Overcoming Anxiety by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week17.htm
• Reasonable Standards by Jim Muncy on whether it’s right to hold parents accountable to their homeschooling failures http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~muncyj/homeschooling/thoughts.html#Reasonable%20Standards?
• Saint Jerome’s Advice to a Homeschooling Mom Practical wisdom from 400 AD, by Rob Shearer, Publisher, Greenleaf Press. http://www.greenleafpress.com/articles/a_jerome.htm
• Should You Put the Kids Back in School? by Barbara Smith When well-planned lessons continue to bomb, when routine household chores pile up, when bills and other family responsibilities multiply, homeschooling parents may look for other schooling alternatives. http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week43.htm
• Staying on Task! by Tamara Eaton Offers principles for developing a workable and flexible homeschooling and homemaking schedule. http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week48.htm
• The Common Cold-Common Sense by Gale Luby http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-2article9.htm
• Twenty Elements of Success in Christian Home Education http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/20elements.cfm
• Under Pressure? (God’s Response to Stressed-Out Moms) By Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week56.htm

12. Organizational Helps:

• A Homeschooler’s Checklist by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week24.htm
• Another Method of Scheduling: The File Box System http://www.welltrainedmind.com/A00another.html
• Checklist for Starting a School Year http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/checklist.cfm
• Do you need a diploma? http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/cohen5.htm
• Financial Aid & Scholarships http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/articles/scholarships.htm
• Forming a Homeschool Cooperative http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/ransom2.htm
• Getting organized http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/field3.htm
• Providing a diploma http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/callihan1.htm
• Legalities & Records
• Organizing and planning http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/planning.cfm
• Portfolios http://homeschoolfaq.com/portfilios.htm
• Preparing Your Homeschool Portfolio (Organizing Your Homeschool) by Shirley Minster http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-2article15.htm
• Portfolios All sorts of resources and tips for creating portfolios for personal use or for getting into college. http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/olderkids/Portfolios.htm
• Records and Reports http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/articles/092698.htm Recommended*
• Structure and Order Help for the organizationally-challenged parent — our ADHD children must have structure in order to function at their best. Stop pulling your hair out and get your children organized. Sample charts and free downloadable files make this easy. http://www.christianadhd.com/structure.html
• Top Gun Transcripts http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Transcripts Help interpreting your high school-level work to make into transcripts for college applications. http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/olderkids/Transcripts.htm Highly recommended*
• Transcripts vs. Portfolios http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/articles/cohen1.htm

13. Testing:

• A Perfect Ten (about grading) http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Do I need to test my kids? http://www.homeschoolzone.com/faq/testing.htm
• Learning At Home: Does It pass the Test? http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/ed0114_1.htm
• Prepping For College Boards and Other Important Tests ·Part
• Educational Standards: Who Needs Them http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Testing 1, 2, 3…46, 47, 48 An inspiring article on Testing for Special Needs Children written by an adoptive mother of three special needs children. http://www.christianadhd.com/testing123.html
• Testing Homeschoolers – 1/4/99 by Ann Zeise Are the children learning? Should you test? Must you test? How to find tests. http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/articles/010499.htm.
• The ABC’s of Test Taking by Amy Santee http://www.homeschooltoday.com/articls/ongoing/theabc.htm
• To Test Gifted Kids or Not? Concerns about the accuracy of IQ Testing. Resources for intelligence testing http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/weblinks/giftedTesting.htm
• To Test or Not to Test: Arguments for and Against Standardized Testing – Beverly S. Krueger and Tammy Cardwell http://eho.org/features/testing.htm Recommended*
• The Value of Testing We home educators have an opportunity to handle test-taking at our own discretion. However, before we throw out tests entirely, we must evaluate whether tests help or hinder in the learning process. There are occasions when testing is essential… http://eho.org/features/value_of_testing.htm Recommended*

14. Early Education: Preschool to Kindergarten

• A Day in Our Kindergarten Jennifer VanLaanen-Smit describes how a typical day unfolds in her Waldorf-inspired homeschool with small children. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/2924/pathwaysday.html
• Attention All Students Getting Through From Kindergarten to Graduate School by Robert Kay, M.D. by Dr. Robert Kay http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-1article8.htm
• Homeschooling 3- and 4-Year-Olds http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/early.htm
• Homeschooling Little Ones By Tamara Eaton, homeschooling veteran and whose first four children were born very closely spaced together, (4 in 4 1/2 years) http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-5.htm
• Homeschooling with Toddlers! by Tamara Eaton on the challenges of homeschooling with toddlers as well as the “excitement, enthusiasm, laughter, joy and freedom from boredom and dull routine!” http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week29.htm
• On Early Academics. There is a difference between unschooling and delayed academics.
• Preschool Homeschooling by Beverly Krueger http://eho.org/features/preschoo.htm
• Preschool Homeschooling – Plunging into homeschooling while your child is still preschool age. What you should do now. What can wait. http://www.triviumpursuit.com/articles/early_academics_and_unschooling.htm
• Preschoolers: What can they do during school time? http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/preschool_activities.htm
• Preschool & Grade School http://www.homeschoolzone.com/faq/faq4.htm
• Teaching Kindergartners Reading Readiness. Tamara Eaton advocates that children this age should not be pushed or pressured into formal academics, but that neither should parents hold back interested kids. http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/tips-7.htm
• Ten Things to Do with Your Child Before Age Ten http://www.triviumpursuit.com/articles/ten_to_do_before_ten.htm
• The Skills List (for homeschooling preschoolers aged 2,3 and 4) by Michele Lewis. The most comprehensive list on the internet. http://www.geocities.com/heartland/forest/2468/skillslist.html Highly recommended*
• Where Do You Want the Sandbox?, Lisa Hodge Kander http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM145.97/145.97_art_sdbx.html

15. Elementary Years:

College Bound at Home, Part1: The Elementary Years Joyce Joyce Swann gives tips on preparing for higher education in the lower grades using a correspondence program. http://www.home-school.com/Articles/CollegeAtHome.html

16. Middle School

17. Teen Years and High School

• Conquering High School Science: Gaining Confidence with High School Science at Home http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Do You Have a High School Overachiever? http://www.welltrainedmind.com/099highschool.html
• FREE Teen Homeschooling Ideas http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/cohen2.htm
• High school http://www.homeschoolzone.com/faq/highschool.htm
• High School Science at Home http://www.covernanthome.com
• Homeschooling Highschoolers by Tamara Eaton addressing the panic that even veteran homeschooling parents sometimes feel at the thought of homeschooling through high school. http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week10.htm
• How Do I Handle High School? By Beverly S. Krueger. Possibilities, solutions and resources for high school homeschooling http://eho.org/features/highschool.htm
• High School the Charlotte Mason Way Several essays dealing with how to use the CM philosophy to teach High School http://homepage.bushnell.net/~peanuts/CMhighschool.html
• Homeschooling Teens by Carol Straight http://members.aol.com/usteach/articles.html#06
• Homeschooling Teenagers by Lisa Beamer http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/9-1article3.htm
• Learning High School Subjects One of the key concerns for new homeschooling families is how to approach high school course work. By Lenore Hayes. NHEN. http://www.nhen.org/nhen/pov/teens/learn_hssubject.htm
• Taking College Courses in High School http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/cohen3.htm
• Top Ten Reasons to High School Homeschool http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/cohen1.htm

18. Preparing for College:

• And What about College? http://www.homeschoolzone.com/college.htm
• Colleges Are Increasingly Positive Toward Homeschoolers http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-2article18.htm;
• Colleges That Accept Homeschoolers http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html
• Homeschoolers at the College—Tammy Cardwell http://eho.org/features/college.htm
• We’re Not Off To See The Wizard. Revisiting the idea of College by Jon O Andersen advocates lifelong education over college. http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UniFrame.html?JumpBar=”FAQ’s.j.html”&Main=”/hs/NoCollege.html

19. Career Planning and Opportunities:

• Air Force & Homeschoolers on career and scholarship opportunities for homeschoolers as the airforce, navy and other branches open their doors to recruit homeschoolers. http://members.aol.com/usteach/articles.html#08
• Apprenticeships Offer a Career Headstart by Jonathan Ross http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/4-1article10.htm
• Career Planning for Junior Highs http://www.covenanthome.com/articles.htm
• Helping Your Child with Career Planning, Susan M Johnston http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM142.97/142.97_art_crpln.html
• Karl Bunday’s Web site lists colleges and universities that have admitted home-schoolers. Includes tips and process of admission, http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html

20.Homeschooling and Technology:

• Educational Media http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/media.cfm
• School’s Out, an interview with Seymour Papert, the inventor of the kids’ programming language Logo, and the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. Must-read for clueless parents on the role of technology in education http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UniFrame.html?JumpBar=”FAQ’s.j.html”&Main=”/hs/School’sOut.html”
• Technology Trend Finds Way in Homeschools by Christina M Woods about homeschooling hi-tech options http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/06/02/frontpage/0602homeschool_txt.htm
• Techno-homeschooling by Wayne Israel

21. Giftedness

• Acceleration A legitimate means of meeting the needs of gifted children. Suggestions on how to implement an accelerated program for your homeschooler. Author: Dr Sarah Evans
• Desperately Seeking Research … on homeschooling the gifted, by Joyce Michel. Why is it so hard to find research on homeschooling gifted children? Because homeschooling is “gifted education” at its best! Includes a large bibliography. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9687/hsgifted.html
• Early Education and Giftedness Dennis Beck writes that force-feeding academics to preschoolers does not make them “gifted.” http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9479/gifted.html
• Gifted But Trouble. Bundle of articles about problems educating gifted kids http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/weblinks/giftedTrouble.htm
• Gifted Children Focus by Kathi Kearney
• Gifted Education http://ericec.org/osep-sp.html
• Highly Gifted Children in Full Inclusion Classrooms Study shows that schools have a hard time including gifted children in classrooms, and so parents are often encouraged to homeschool. By Kathi Kearney, Gifted Education Consultant, Founder, The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children. http://www.hollingworth.org/fullincl.html
• Homeschooling Gifted Children by Kathi Kearney http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/7-4article3.htm
• Home Schooling Highly Gifted Children – Kathi Kearney http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/9-1article2.htm
• Homeschooling Gifted Children: What do you mean and why does it matter? by Josh Shaine http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/9-1article2.htm
• The Energetic Gifted Child by Kathleen Julicher http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/7-2article5.htm Recommended*
• Parenting Gifted Children by Linda Kregar Silverman, Ph.D. http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-6article7.htm
• The Gifted Child – Theresa Willingham Theresa Willingham challenges us to re-examine our ideas about “gifted” children. We may be missing the most important gifts by putting our faith in a flawed definition. http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/182/magifted.html
• To Test Gifted Kids or Not? Concerns about the accuracy of IQ Testing. Links to resources for intelligence testing. http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/weblinks/giftedTesting.htm

22. Special Needs:

• ADHD and the Gifted Child by James Webb and Diane Latimer (on how to distinguish between the two) http://www.teleport.com/~rkaltwas/tag/articles/eric522.html
• Attention Deficit Disorder Special Feature Section http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/INF/SPCL/spcl_add.indx.html
• Caring and Empathy – the building blocks of our big loves by Renee Fuller, Ph.D. http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/9-1article1.htm
• Charlotte Mason Special Needs http://homepage.bushnell.net/~peanuts/CMSpecialNeeds.html
• Homeschooling the ADHD Child (from ADHD of the Christian Kind) http://www.christianadhd.com/adhomeschool.html
• Homeschooling Helps Learning Disabled Child http://members.aol.com/usteach/articles.html#02
• The Ritalin Epidemic – Jodi Guistolise http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/INF/SPCL/spcl_add.ritalinepdmc.html
• Is Ritalin Raising Our Kids To Be Drug Addicts by Phyllis Schafly http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/9-1article7.htm
• Learning and Nutrition Your Mother Was Right! Eat Your Broccoli and Read a Good Book by Gale Luby http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-1article14.htm
• Remedies For Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity by Dorothy Moore http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-2article2.htm
• Inside the Brain of a Hyperactive Homeschooler by Israel Wayne (an ADHD homeschool graduate) http://www.christianadhd.com/inside.html
• Speech Disorders http://www.homeschoolzone.com/add/speech.htm
• Structure and Order Help for the organizationally-challenged parent — our ADHD children must have structure in order to function at their best. Stop pulling your hair out and get your children organized. Sample charts and free downloadable files make this easy. http://www.christianadhd.com/structure.html
• Testing 1, 2, 3…46, 47, 48 An inspiring article on Testing for Special Needs Children written by an adoptive mother of three special needs children. http://www.christianadhd.com/testing123.html
• The Courage to Raise an ADD/ADHD Child Do you have what it takes to raise your ADHD child? http://www.christianadhd.com/courage.html
• The Explosive Child by Ross Greene http://www.homeschoolzone.com/add/greene.htm
• Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way Homeschooling children with special needs by Gail Felker http://www.homeschooltoday.com/articls/5-01/special.htm

  23. Family and Parenting Matters:

  • A Checklist for Parents An evaluation to determine if your family dynamics, diet, health, and spiritual condition are contributing to the chaos in your family. http://www.christianadhd.com/checklist.html
  • Are We Raising Boys Wrong by Holly Robinson http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-3article1.htm
  • Child Training http://www.teachinghome.com/started/basics/training.cfm
  • Emotional Intelligence, etc. This site contains lots of practical information on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as Steve Hein interprets and applies it. Many homeschool families value a high EQ more than a high IQ. http://eqi.org
  • Environmental Factors Is your child’s brain bombarded by so many chemicals in his foods, shampoo, toothpaste, snack drinks, even his vitamins that it is impossible for him to control himself? Explore this thought-provoking possibility. http://www.christianadhd.com/environmental.html
  • Family and the Educated Child Bringing In The Sheaves: by George Grant http://www.kingsmeadow.coforce.com/ArticlesAvailable.asp
  • Growing as Parents by Tamara Eaton http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week36.htm
  • Homeschooling Together by Shirley M.R. Minster http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/7-1article6.htm
  • Making time for each other http://www.homeschoolzone/hsz/henry2.htm
  • Playtime: A Time for Children and Parents To Share and To Grow – Amber P. Keefer http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM146.97/147.97_art_ply.html
  • The Homeschooling Father’s Role While some fathers are the principle teachers in the homeschool, more often, it’s the mom doing most of the teaching and actual homeschooling. What are some of the things a father and husband can do to help the homeschooling process go smoothly? Http://www.eho.org/features/homeschooling_father.htm
  • The Homeschooling Father’s Role by Tamara Eaton on some of the things a father and husband can do to help the homeschooling process go smoothly http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week3.htm
  • Training Children (And Parents!) by Tamara Eaton Do we have a positive attitude toward our child or do we view him as a burden or a problem? Are we disciplining calmly, in love, or are we giving into anger and raising our voices? http://www.gocin.com/homeschool/week30.htm

  24. Homeschooling Around The World

  • Homeschooling Is growing Worldwide by Karl Bunday http://learninfreedom.org/homeschool_growth.html

  25. The Future: Role of Technology and Other Issues:

  • HOMESCHOOLING: Back to the Future? by Isabel Lyman from the Cato Institute, the Libertarian think tank. Possibly the best account of the history of homeschooling movement in the US. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-294.html highly recommended*
  • Homeschooling in the News Michael Moy uses sophisticated computer technology to track almost any mention of homeschooling in an on-line press article. Now he has a section of his Web site with an archive of his famous series of “Homeschooling in the News” links to on-line articles about homeschooling. 
  • Technology Trend Finds Way in Homeschools by Christina M Woods about hi-tech options for homeschoolers
  • The Future of Homeschooling- Fritz Hinrichs as seen by classical educators.
  • School’s Out, an interview with Seymour Papert, the inventor of the kids’ programming language Logo, and the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. Must-read for clueless parents on the role of technology in education

  26. Homeschooling in the News:

  • College A Tough test Homeschoolers Find
  • Home Schooling a Growing Trend Florida newspaper article with sidebars with good information about homeschooling in Florida.
  • HOMESCHOOLING: Back to the Future? Interesting article by Isabel Lyman from the Cato Institute, the Libertarian think tank.
  • Homeschooling supporters undeterred by dim view taken on high An August 28, 2000 Asahi Shimbun interview with Yoshiko Kubo and Brian Covert, some of our own local homeschooling heroes. A sidebar story by Brian Covert
  • Home-Schooled Kids Defy Stereotypes Taken from the Wall Street Journal. This will set the record straight on how homeschooling refuses to limit kids by definition.
  • Making Home a School Away from School This June 29, 2000 article in Japan Times highlights three local homeschooling families. Read their stories! 
  • “Singing the Praises of Home-Schooling” Part of a January 29, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle special report on homeschooling in northern California. 
  • Stay-at-home kids shunning the system Once again, local homeschoolers make the news. This is a full page spread in the Daily Yomiuri, Sept. 2, 2000 issue.
  • Homeschooling in the News Michael Moy uses sophisticated computer technology to track almost any mention of homeschooling in an on-line press article. Now he has a section of his Web site with an archive of his famous series of “Homeschooling in the News” links to on-line articles about homeschooling.
  • Technology Trend Finds Way in Homeschools by Christina M Woods 
  • Home Schooling Life, by Julie Ingleton, an Australian ‘conventional Mom’ interviews with a ‘back to the land’ homeschooler.

  27. Statistics and Figures on Homeschooling:

  • An A for Home Schooling by Brian C. Many interesting quotations, facts, and figures. URL
  • EPAA Vol. 7 No. 8 Rudner: Home School Students, 1998 Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998 Lawrence M. Rudner The latest and best comprehensive study, including standardized test scores, of a large sample of homeschooled students, by an educational researcher who is not himself a homeschooler. Extremely interesting recent information about family backgrounds, spending, and academic achievement of the homeschoolers in the sample. EPAA link
  • EPAA Vol. 7 No. 13 Welner & Welner: Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner Thoughtful critique of the recent Rudner study mentioned above. Definitely worth a look for some reasons the Rudner study sample may not have been representative of homeschoolers in general. URL
  • Homeschoolers: Estimating Numbers and Growth by Patricia M. Lines
  • Results of A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement comparing homeschoolers and institutionally schooled children are cited in point 9 of the FAQs 

  28. Movers and Shakers: The Home-educated who Made a Difference:

  • Nobel Prize Winners Hate School
  • The Founders of the United States Mostly Learned Without Public School, or Any School at All