Unschooling is trusting the learner to be in charge of his or her own learning. It is not a method of instruction we use on our children, but a process we adults go through to unlearn the lessons and undo the effects of our years of schooling.

John Taylor Gatto looks at alternatives to our present standard educational model.

Michele Hastings discusses how her homeschooling adventure has changed, moving towards a more eclectic style.

This article explores some of the challenges of reinventing your role as mother into teacher. Strategies include trying lots of ways to entice your child's interest in learning, inventing your own teaching tools, and learning along with your child. 

Harmony Media carries Catholic books and materials, as well as software for adults and children.

Mary Ellen Carlise shares some creative ways to teach elementary math using items you can find around your home. The focus of this article is mathematics education through second grade.

So….what is everyone really doing? Do you feel like the only one not going on a field trip today? You didn't feel up to building an exploding volcano? Check out what these home learners have shared during an average day in the life.

This Facebook page offers information and support for parents opposed to Common Core who are now considering homeschooling.

These are math worksheets for preschoolers and above. there are over 100 printable kids worksheets designed to help them learn everything from early math skills like numbers and patterns to theri basic addition, subtraction, multiptheir basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. These math worksheets are perfect for any teacher, parent or homeschooler and make a great compliment to any math lesson plan.

Our entire value system stems from our experiences. The influences of a classroom or a book are minor compared to the plethora of impressions that bombard us constantly. Every teacher knows that by the time a child can sit at a school desk, that child has already received a majority of his education. The child has already developed the attitudes, drives, tendencies and emotions that will shape almost everything else he will do the rest of his life. That education did not come from a book; it came from experiential interaction. All the teacher can do at this point is offer some direction and a suggestion here and there. In fact, teachers take a back seat to the true teachers of life: parents. When a human being is most receptive to influences, then those influences have their greatest impact. A child is an open book which has engraved onto it's impressionable pages the most basic messages - transmitted by the parent.