Homeschooling FAQs
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What is Homeschooling?
Homeschooling Parents, like me, get a lot of questions related to Homeschooling. Most of these questions come from parents who are new to Homeschooling and want to know more. I love sharing my experience about Homeschooling and hence love these questions. However, given the increase in the frequency of these questions, and my limited time, I decided to create a series of blogs addressing these questions. I hope that these blogs help you find some answers related to our Homeschooling Journey without waiting to talk to me. I call it “Our” Homeschooling Journey, because it is specific to us. In your quest to know more about Homeschooling, you will speak…
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Five Reasons why we Chose Homeschooling
To any outsider, who has never done Homeschooling before, I can vouch that Homeschooling seems like a pretty daunting task. Most people are not able to cross the line into the Homeschooling world because Homeschooling seems like a lot of work. Plus, there are not many clearly documented resources to help along the road. Most thoughts about Homeschooling remain thoughts, until there are a few, extremely strong, non-negotiable, gut-wrenching, soul shaking reasons why one just has to move forward with homeschooling. As a family, we have been doing homeschooling for roughly an year now. My children went to regular school before that. My experience with regular school has been for…
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Our Family Learning Goals
Choosing the right curriculum is one of the most important decision a parent can make. Most parents wonder which curriculum would best meet the needs of their child. We have CBSE, State Boards, IGCSE, NIOS and IB curriculum to choose from. I am sure I have missed a few curriculum in this list that even I am not aware of. For a subject like Maths, we have Vedic Maths, Kumon, Singapore Maths, Abacus, Russian Maths methods (and many more) that we can leverage. Given so many options, how do parents decide which method is best suited for their child? How do parents decide which curriculum is best suited for their…