Thinking about homeschooling? Want to avoid the homeschooling mistakes most people make? Below you’ll find what we’ve discovered from homeschooling our 5 children from birth to college. In 1987 homeschooling was just as newborn as our first child. We looked at homeschooling for a number of reasons which were mostly related to our academic goals. [...]
You spent months agonizing over the curriculum you were going to use with your homeschooler. You negotiated room in your already full house to prepare a learning environment within your home. You steeled yourself against your family’s doubts over whether or not homeschooling was the best decision for your family, and hopefully you triumphed! You [...]
Now that most college applications are submitted, it is time to turn your attention to financial aid applications. In tight economic times, many families are struggling and schools are as well. With the stock market crash, many colleges’ endowments were severely damaged. I know of several top schools that eliminated merit scholarships altogether. This is [...]
