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How do we know if homeschooled families are teaching their children or neglecting them and who we should inform about it. Should the authorities be called?

Whatever your motivation for starting a home biz, or before you even get to the “nitty gritty” of deciding your niche, your product, your company, your marketing plan, etc. – have you given a thought to how your home business will impact your family life, and even more specifically, the relationship with your husband?

Homeschooling is an education option that is widely debated by comparing and contrasting it to public school. There are always two sides to every story, and there are many topics that always seem to come up in these discussions.

Homeschooling is all about life, not just the academics. So part of our children’s education need to be “life skills”. Cooking is a great life skill to teach your children – both boys and girls.

I never set out to give my toddlers chores to do. You might be thinking, “That’s too young! Toddlers can’t do chores!” That’s what I thought too, that is until I was constantly tripping over my boys while trying to do my own household chores.

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it is about learning how to dance in the rain!” I lost my right eye as a child, and was teased unmercifully until I learned what I am about to share with you.

Most of us have heard the phrase: “Aim at nothing and you’re sure to hit it.” Many also know the scripture from Proverbs 29:18: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” But how do these ideas apply to families – your family?

I’ve homeschooled my children for almost twenty-two years. The other day I had a conversation with another homeschool mom, and we talked about how over the years we had changed as homeschooling moms. Our conversation started me thinking, “Why had I started to homeschool in the first place?”

Home Education is a much more comprehensive term than home schooling. We are instilling character, teaching worldview, developing life skills and growing in knowledge, enlightening the understanding and pursuing wisdom, and this is not happening between the set hours of 9 AM and 3 PM. Are you primarily a family or a school?

(One of) the ultimate goals of this book is “to help you discover the answers that work for you and your children and to fulfill the dreams you have for them”.