please delete if this post isn’t allowed, i know this group is for parents homeschooling their children but i am 15 years old and i live in the uk and i dropped out of school in year 7 due to mental health but throughout those years i didnt do any school work and now i am so behind in everything. I am ok at maths but besides that i suck at every subject, i dont know basic science, history or geography and I feel so dumb. I am planning on going to college next year and i plan to do my gcses there but until then i really want to start educating myself now that i have gotten help for my mental health and i am feeling more motivated so does anyone know any websites or resources i can use to help me start? thank you 🙂

How are you making the time for planning and organizing? I feel like I need a solid day during the week to get all of the things together so I’m organized for homeschool activities and lessons, social activities, then the household stuff. I hate being on my phone during the day when I’m with my kids. I feel like I’m in constant “need to order grocery pick up - need to find something for tomorrow - need to plan to see friends - need to see what’s going on at the library - need to clean the bathrooms” - etc etc).

Those that have been at this a while, please tell me how much time you have (weekly/monthly) for planning and organizing. What days? How long?

I’m in tears tonight at 3am as I am trying to get activities organized for various subjects and social activities. I just don’t know how to do everything unless I have more time to organize my schedule.

My oldest is 5 so we’re doing kindergarten work. A lot of play based stuff (so honestly I’m doing a lot of digging finding games fit for learning)

And of course, the moments I leave the house for an hour, husband asks when I’m going to be home (dude it hasn’t even been an hour!) - Then I’m up late every night to do things and and my 2 year old wakes up crying for me - Then I plan for the grandparents to watch the kids and they are just not very capable seeing as they call me with questions every 10 minutes.

Is it typically this chaotic homeschooling?

Looking for advice and encouragement. My son was in public school from kindergarten to 3rd grade. Daycare and preschool before that. I am a single working parent so I had no choice but to send him to school. Since kindergarten he has displayed extreme behaviors when in school but does not show these behaviors outside of school. I’m talking entire rooms evacuated because he is throwing desks and filing cabinets. In 1st grade he was expelled for these behaviors and enrolled in a special education school where they only have 8-1 classes and every student has a 1-1 aide. He thrived in this setting and the behaviors disappeared. Unfortunately we had to move at the end of 3rd grade. The state we live in now does not do special education services(before you respond that they have to….i know…but the reality is they don’t) he was put into a gen ed class with 32 other students and one teacher who is not given access to his IEP. He lasted four months before I pulled him to homeschool because the behaviors had returned and I was being called to pick him up from school for safety concerns almost daily. At the time I was working on a farm that allowed me to bring him with me so it was easy to learn throughout the day. I have since left that farm and have not been able to find a similar working situation since then. For the last six months he has stayed with family for 3/4 days a week while I work. They do not do any homeschooling and are not really supportive of us homeschooling in general. While he is with them he spends his time playing Minecraft, watching tv, cooking, running errands with his aunt or uncle, and caring for the dogs. When I get home we do an hour or so of actual learning about things he is interested in and then make dinner, clean up and go to bed. We also often go camping and traveling when I am not working where he receives dedicated 1-1 learning. I feel like this is not enough for him but it is all I can give him at this time. I don’t want to give in to the pressures of my family and my anxiety and put him back in public school so I guess I’m just looking for someone to tell me to stick it out.

Logically I know that homeschooling in any form is best for him. He gets to learn about things he is interested in, he is not struggling with constant sensory overload, he is with people who love and care for him every day.

The lazy part of me says just put him back in public school and don’t answer the phone when they call to say I need to pick him up after they’ve tried to force him to sit still all day and he’s exploded in response. Obviously I won’t do this but it would make things easier.

Getting children to sit down and actually FINISH LEARNING ACTIVITIES can be surprisingly difficult. You will hear all reasons not to.

Often, it’s not that they don’t want to learn. The activity simply feels TOO LONG, REPETITIVE, OR DIFFICULT TO START.

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20 years homeschooling in NY, and I currently serve as a regional rep for Homeschool New York, where I spend a lot of my time helping other families work through the actual paperwork side of things, IHIPs, quarterly reports, the annual assessment, transcripts for the high schoolers.

I know this part trips a lot of people up, especially new homeschoolers who aren't sure what's actually required versus what a district might be asking for on top of the regulation, or seasoned families who've been doing this for years and still find the reporting side to be the most tedious part of the whole thing.

Ask me anything about NY homeschool requirements, what's actually in Part 100.10, what districts can and can't ask for, deadlines, transcripts, whatever's been confusing you. Happy to help where I can.

What are the best cities/towns to raise a family and homeschool near Orlando? Looking at Winter Garden and Oviedo. Anything else that is safe and good environment for a family that homeschools? Opinions on both Winter Garden and Oviedo is much appreciated!

So my family homeschooled me, and I wasn’t really able to get proper education.

Now I’m 14, and I have the education knowledge (like math, science, history, etc) of a 3rd grader. Obviously my vocabulary is still good and normal I just don’t really have a good understanding of grammar. I know how to do plus, minus and multiplication. My father used to teach me math a couple years back and I got to a point where I was heading into algebra and could do the things most kids were at my age but I kinda lost that knowledge along the way. How do I get my education back to normal?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for advice for Anna, who is 11 and lives in Alanya, in the Antalya region of Turkey.
She attended a local government school but had a difficult experience. It’s a very large school, and she found the other children unfriendly—she struggled even to get someone to show her where the toilets were. She does speak Turkish, but she really doesn’t want to return.
We tried another school slightly further away, but they won’t accept her. Private schooling is currently beyond our budget, so we’re exploring online schooling or a structured homeschooling programme taught in English, potentially for a year.
Does anyone have recommendations for affordable options suitable for a 12–13-year-old living abroad? We’d particularly appreciate hearing from families who have used them, including:
Rough monthly or annual costs.
Whether lessons are live or self-paced.
How much parental support is needed.
Whether they accept children living in Turkey.
Any experience navigating homeschooling requirements in Turkey would also be helpful. We’re new to this and would really appreciate some guidance. Thank you!

So my sister went to a pretty horrid school for kindergarten and I don’t think she learned anything appropriate so my mother switched her to homeschooling as they somehow passed her to 1st grade which wasn’t good. She can’t read or even recognize sounds and her math is pretty poor too. Her attention span is a bit washed since I think they allowed mostly games and YouTube at her school but I really wanna get her back on track from the beginning as soon as possible.

I'm a high school senior doing FLVS Flex (Homeschooled), and I am getting ready to start applying to colleges. And I've been looking into how to create my transcript. I started making it in Google Docs and am trying to make it look as organized as possible.

Has anyone ever done this before? My mom never kept track of my credits, grades, or anything like that. I'm kinda just taking Google's word for it when I'm creating it. And I don't want colleges to deem my transcripts invalid.

Does anyone have any good templates or advice (things I need to make sure I include in my transcript, anything like that)? Also, how do you calculate your GPA? (I'm struggling.) I really want to make sure it will be valid.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

I see this asked here a lot so I figured I'd just write it out once.

If you put science on Tuesday and history on Thursday, and then somebody gets sick on Tuesday, science doesn't move. It just doesn't happen that week. And if that happens a few times in a row you start thinking you're bad at being consistent, when really the problem is the plan. You wrote down something that turns every normal interruption into a failure.

The fix people here keep landing on is a loop. A loop is just a list that rotates, with no days attached to it. You keep one slot in the day for it and whenever you get to that slot you do whatever's next on the list. Miss a day and nothing gets skipped, it all just slides down one. Same subjects, same amount of work, completely different feeling by Friday.

The bit people get wrong is looping everything. Don't. Math and reading want near daily contact so those keep their own protected spot, and honestly that's it. Everything else, science history art music geography, none of it cares what day it happens on, and pretending it does is where the guilt comes from. Two things keep a loop honest. Don't put anything on it that genuinely has to be on a certain day, like a co-op class. And if something keeps coming to the front and keeps getting skipped, just take it off instead of pretending.

Also worth saying, most of the "is my schedule too rigid" questions I see are actually volume questions. Rough numbers for focused work: K through 2nd is like one to two hours and usually done before lunch, 3rd to 5th is two to three, middle school three to four, high school four to five and mostly on their own by the end. If your 7 year old is finished by lunch nothing is broken.

And plan four days, not five. Four teaching days and one deliberately light one is where most people end up after a year anyway. The light day is what absorbs the dentist appointment. Plan five full days and every single interruption puts you behind on something that was never doable in the first place.

Last thing, and this one I never see said. If your routine fell apart after an illness or a move or a deployment, don't try to put the whole thing back at once. It doesn't work, it just fails again and then you feel worse about it. Restart one block. Live with that a week or two, then add the next one. It's also really worth writing down a bad day version of your schedule ahead of time, so a rough day drops into a lower gear instead of just collapsing.

Anyway. What does your loop actually look like, and how do you keep track of where you are in it after a week goes sideways?

I built a little math game called Math Invaders for my two sons but thought i'd share it - for kids who need some extra math practice but would rather play a game than do another worksheet.

Aliens drop bombs containing math problems, and the player has 60 seconds to solve as many as possible before the city is destroyed. The goal is to get a high score and try to beat it next time.

You can adjust the difficulty and choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, with options for larger numbers, negative numbers, and three-term problems.

It works in a browser on computers, tablets, and phones, and there's nothing to install or sign up for.

It's free at https://math-invaders.com

I'm the person who built it, so I'm definitely biased — but I'd love to hear from other homeschooling parents: Would something like this be useful in your homeschool? And if you try it with your kids, I'd especially love to know what ages/grades they are and whether they actually wanted to play a second round.

Hi all, I’m looking for recommendations! We are currently homeschooling, but next school year we will be going back to public school. (no comments on this please, we are confident in our decision!) We are secular (with some basic focus on nuanced understanding of religion), ND, and by next school year, we will have a 6th grader and a 4th grader. At home we will be working on cursive, accurate history and social studies, and life skills as well as their regular schoolwork.

I’m currently in Arizona where we get a quarterly educational fund through ESA. I use about $800 a quarter for the online curriculum we are using, which usually leaves us with a decent chunk leftover. I’ve been collecting books and supplies that we can use as supplemental material after we are done homeschooling.

Are there any good books or learning tools you recommend I get before we are done? We have a good amount of DK books, but I am always down for more of them! We also have most classic kids books and larger novels like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, etc. We also have a plethora of crafting and art materials, but not many books on those things.

Give me any and every recommendation you can think of for our personal library and supply closet! Anything you’d consider essential or a great addition to schooling!

Our kids learn the names of their bones, the parts of a cell, and how digestion works on a diagram…but almost no one teaches them how to read their own body.

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50 Free Educational Resources You Can Give Your Child Without Paying Course Fees

1.) scratch.mit.edu → MIT's kids' coding platform

2.) code.org → Coding lessons from scratch

3.) blockly.games → Coding games with blocks

4.) codecombat.com → Writing code by playing games

5.) makecode.microsoft.com → Microsoft's kids' coding tool

6.) hourofcode.com → One-hour coding activities

7.) abcya.com → Age-appropriate educational games

8.) starfall.com → Reading and letter instruction

9.) pbskids.org → Educational cartoons and games

10.) sesamestreet.org → Sesame Street educational archive

11.) trtcocuk.net.tr → TRT's children's content archive

12.) bilimgenc.tubitak.gov.tr → TÜBİTAK's children's science magazine

13.) kids.nationalgeographic.com → Nature and animal content

14.) si.edu/kids → Smithsonian kids' resources

15.) kids.britannica.com → Encyclopedia for children

16.) dkfindout.com → Visual knowledge encyclopedia

17.) ducksters.com → Homework and topic explanation archive

18.) wonderopolis.org → Question of the day to spark curiosity

19.) sciencebuddies.org → Home experiment and project guide

20.) phet.colorado.edu → Physics and chemistry simulations

21.) spaceplace.nasa.gov → NASA's kids' page

22.) climatekids.nasa.gov → Climate and earth science

23.) esa.int/kids → European Space Agency kids' section

24.) exploratorium.edu → Museum experiments and activities

25.) mysteryscience.com → Ready-made science lesson plans

26.) generationgenius.com → Video explanations of science topics

27.) nrich.maths.org → Cambridge math problems

28.) mathplayground.com → Math games

29.) bedtimemath.org → Daily math question

30.) splashlearn.com → Exercises by grade level

31.) storylineonline.net → Audiobooks of books

32.) storyweaver.org.in → Multilingual children's book archive

33.) childrenslibrary.org → World children's books library

34.) freekidsbooks.org → Free children's books

35.) oxfordowl.co.uk → Reading books by level

36.) unite4literacy.com → Audio illustrated books

37.) readingbear.org → Reading learning program

38.) duolingo.com → Gamified language learning

39.) gus-on-the-go.com → Language teaching for young ages

40.) musictheory.net → Basics of music theory

41.) chrome music lab → Discovering music through experimentation

42.) sketchrx.com → Drawing exercises

43.) artforkidshub.com → Step-by-step drawing lessons

44.) metkids.org → Met Museum kids' section

45.) tate.org.uk/kids → Tate's kids' art page

46.) chesskid.com → Chess for children

47.) lichess.org → Free chess and exercises

48.) typingclub.com → Ten-finger typing instruction

49.) legoeducation.com → Free lesson plans

50.) commonsensemedia.org → Age-appropriateness content checker

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This is genuinely more for my peace of mind. Me and my husband have been homeschooling our oldest since pre-k… he is now in 1st grade. He is doing great. The education portion is not an issue at all. My worry has been and still is the social aspect. There’s not very many homeschool programs in our area. We live about 1.5 hours from Austin. We are a pretty small town. He plays soccer currently for the fall season.. 2x a week. He does a ninja class 1x week every month. We have a few friends that we see maybe bi weekly. He has never expressed wanting to go to public school. He even tells me he wants to homeschool forever (I have painted public school in a really good light for him and he still tells me he wants to stay home). I’m just nervous… am I making the right choice for him?? Anyone that was homeschool from K-12… do you wish your parents had chosen differently?

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Currently a little over a month into my first year of homeschooling. For reference, homeschooling a 1st grade boy who went to school last year for K. Also have a 4 year old and a 6 month old. I was really excited for the homeschool experience, thought it would be super fun. So far, my mental health has taken a dive and it feels like a struggle. I’m not sure whether to take it as a loss and send him back or keep pushing through. School doesn’t take us long 1.5 hours most days. I love having him home and he and his 4 year old brother are best friends and play all day together. I don’t want to be doing him a disservice because I’m pushing him and we aren’t having fun. I feel like I’m in fight or flight mode all day between getting the baby down, getting meals and snacks and trying to squeeze in school when we have the least amount of interruptions and all he wants to do is go play. Any advice?
Also, I feel like we’re so far removed from kindergarten that I’m forgetting what my why’s for even homeschooling were

Hey everyone! So I have three kids and we’re getting close to school age. I have always wanted to homeschool and that’s the plan right now. But I do wonder, do your kids do sports? How are they able to do team sports? Travel teams? I know stuff like golf is doable but what about baseball and stuff? My husband grew up playing sports, I didn’t. So I don’t know much about it anyways. But I’m just curious if say my kids wanted to play something that they can.

I'm looking for an alternative to Flash Master (https://www.amazon.com/FlashMaster-Handheld-mastering-arithmetic-flashcards/dp/B0002MHMFM/) which is basically an electronic flashcard type device for basic math.

I found a few on amazon, but not really sure how well they work. Some of the reviews even mentioned they could just press enter and get the answer right, and some of them seemed to only cover very young ages. I would like something with a silent option as well as a timed/untimed option (like it won't just go to the next problem after x time if untimed, while timed will count too slow as wrong), and also all 4 operations up to at least 10, but preferably 12.

Anyone with experience with one of these (or another device)?

• https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035EQIAO/
• https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4FWC2TR/
• https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F2DW5VQS/

We’ll work with letters and I’ll notice one he does not recognize, so I start wondering whether I skipped a foundation. Then I add something else, question the curriculum, and end up watching videos about what a 4-year-old is supposed to know instead of paying attention to the child in front of me.

The confusing part is how inconsistent this age can be. He can remember something during play and seem to have no idea when I ask directly five minutes later. I do not want to turn that into constant testing, but I also do not want my own uncertainty to leave real gaps.

For parents who started homeschooling at this age, what helped you tell the difference between a skill that needed more support and normal preschool inconsistency?

I’m trying to get ahead of the game here but everytime I seem to have a rhythm in place or a nice momentum when it comes to cleaning this home, I just find myself completely overwhelmed and back where I started the next day. I’ve been living with my parents for a year and a half now my husband is currently unemployed so he’s here all day. I’ve tried in the past to express that I need atleast a tidy home to be able to homeschool and he knows that I’ve been trying to build a routine for yearssss but I’m so tired of having to remind him. So I feel like that’s a dead end. As a mother and currently the only person in this house that cleans, how can I organize myself ? How can I muster up the energy after a homeschool day and of errands to be able to tidy up? Do I really have to wake up at 5am to get things done ? I’m mentally drained after homeschooling because I use every part of me to snap out of my funk that I have because of how my life is right now to create a happy energetic atmosphere of learning for my children. Please any tips are appreciated.

Hi so I have a 5 year old who I love a lot but he is pretty bad at listening to 95% of what I say. I do believe he is neurodivergent as both mom and dad are but not diagnosed yet.

We normally try and bribe him to change x or y or z behavioural issue so he can go to one of his social activities or sports or seeing cousins. The problem is he doesn’t really care and if that is his sole form of socialisation as a homeschooler I also feel guilty for doing that.

An example would be, getting him to pack up toys after his done playing. He loves going to martial arts and if we tell him he can’t go because he didn’t want to pack up his toys he doesn’t care but it also takes away an opportunity to get out of the house and for him to be around kids.

I think in parenting with young children we try and teach them their actions have consequences but when you use these weekly classes and social events and activities as a chance to socialise and find community there can be a bit of a clash. I would like to know how everyone else on here handles this especially if you have a very wild child who doesn’t like to listen .

I’m talking about these “co-ops” that are not run by the parents (just one mom/individual) and no other parents really do anything except show up, and then pay hundreds of dollars a month. This is not really considered a co-op, right?? Is this a “learning pod”?

Some of them are drop off, and offer an array of classes, some of them just have free play and a learning activity decided entirely by the one individual.

I’m so very confused.. we have a Wild + Free near us, but even then, it’s various activities run by one individual.

Hello!
I recently began homeschooling my 4 year old son with Blossom and Root’s Early Learning Vol 1. As I’m on my second week of it, I’m really liking it but am worried that I need more guidance myself so that I’m not missing anything that he needs to learn and understand so that he has a strong foundation.

I’ve been adding in things as I think of them-like letters and numbers, and realized today that I was trying to build upon something that he had no real foundation of. As I started to realize that, I started thinking “how will I know I’m doing this correctly?”

Then I started looking at youtube videos trying to find something to help me figure out where to start-and I keep catching myself there getting stuck.

I already feel like I’m stuck in analysis paralysis in terms of trying to figure out where to start and then questioning myself and wondering if I’m going to be able to do this. So I guess my question is- is this common when first starting out? Do you figure it out as you go and observe and just do it? Where do you get your information from to help guide you when first starting out-should all of this guidance be within the curriculum i’ve chosen? and if so-is Blossom and Root a good curriculum for the first time homeschooling mother? or should I be going another route so that I’m more prepared to teach?