Join Amy Roberts as she shares her tips and ideas about homeschooling and large family living.
Having a house of order is not the easiest goal to attain when raising a large family and homeschooling on top of it. Here are some ideas and tips for doing it all successfully.
Large families are often drawn to homeschooling, due to societal pressures or the inability to pay for private Catholic school for a large brood. This article details some of the real challenges that a large family can face in the world.
This site offers articles, resources, free homeschool printable, and curriculum information.
A place where families with four or more children can find friendship, fun, and support.
Some practical solution and ideas to manage a large family on one income. A positive look at making things work out when there are limited funds.
Sherry writes her blog and shares her experiences as a mom of 15 homeschooled children.
Regardless of how many children you have, there will always be more on your to-do list than time will allow in any one day. Wise homeschool parents will recognize this early on and take steps to maintain their sanity by practicing these tips to enhance their homeschool productivity.
For any family seeking a private Christian education in the home, money quickly becomes an issue. While programs like K12 and other public-school umbrellas exist, they do not offer the freedom of choice so many homeschoolers are looking for. Nor do they offer a Christian education. Most homeschooling families opt to buy their own curriculum so they can truly be in charge of their child’s education. When a homeschooling family has many children, curriculum buying becomes an exercise in creative frugality. Here are a few ways you can save and stretch money in your homeschool.
Do you come from a large family? Are you planning one? Share the challenges and joys a big family can bring.
There are lots of things to love about a large family, but being agile and moving about quickly isn’t really one of them. Learning in action and experiencing something first hand is one of the best things about homeschooling. It’s often what really sets apart our education from that of a traditional brick and mortar school. It is worth it to make the effort for field trips, though it doesn’t necessarily make them any easier!
How do you structure a homeschool day with four children? Do you teach each subject separately with each child? If not, what do you do together? This mom shares her strategies as she shows a day in her life.
This forum is for families with four or more kids.
This blog follows Cindy and her family as she talks about homeschooling, large families, and parenting.
Gigi is a 30-something large family homeschooling mom to seven kids. Being a large family homeschooler has its challenges and joys, which Gigi shares here.
Heather Bowen shares some tips, tricks, and shortcuts for homeschooling multiple ages within a large family.
This article offers a smattering of simple ideas to help keep homeschooling materials organized.
This mailing list is set up for parents of large families. Large for this list is defined as having five or more kids. They welcome everybody who has at least that many of any religion, or even no religion.
This list is to encourage and support those who homeschool many children. How many? To some 3 is a lot! If you have a large family (whether natural, adopted, foster or blended) and homeschool, you know that there are a lot of unique challenges ranging from orchestrating family harmony, dealing with multiple ages, trying to homeschool in a sometimes chaotic environment, keeping up with the never-ending laundry, transportation, cooking, chores, and more. This is a Christian list.
For the most part, the more well ordered days are the more smoothly the day will go. Not only does it require planning on our part as homeschooling moms, it requires diligence and perseverance – daily.