40th Anniversary, Classes, Curriculum, Social Studies
by Lesha Myers Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the August 1998 issue of The Parent Home Educator, the print magazine that was the predecessor to CHEA’s current digital e-newsletter, The CHEA Connection. As part of CHEA’s 40th Anniversary...
Curriculum, Decisions, Encouragement
by Rebecca Kocsis I changed curriculum three times during my first year. And it was okay! Let me explain. The year we started homeschooling, I only had two months to prepare. By the end of my children’s last year in public school, I knew we needed to homeschool. The...
Extracurriculars, Family, Homeschool, Teens
by Katie Julius With Memorial Day dubbed as the “unofficial start of summer,” many homeschool parents may be asking themselves, “What am I going to do all summer?” Since we are used to having our kids at home, it’s not as big a transition between the school year and...
40th Anniversary, Homeschool
by Katie Julius “If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday.” – Pearl S. Buck To many, it is a surprise that private home education is not highly regulated by the government in California. After all, most everything else is. However, this is no...