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This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Advice for Moms of New Homeschool High Schoolers. Advice for Moms of New Homeschool High Schoolers Know someone who is just starting to homeschool high school? Pass this episode along to them! Sabrina, Vicki and Kym have lots of encouraging tips for success and enjoying the high school years with your teens. Sabrina, Vicki and Kym are part of the 7SistersHomeschool team. We love to pass along the things we learned in homeschooling our dozens of teens for dozens of years, along with decades of advising and teaching our local homeschool high schoolers in...

Like the majority of other parents, my world took a complete 180-degree turn last March due to schools closing and COVID-19 precautions. Nowadays, I'm coming up with midday meal ideas on top of learning how to homeschool and maintaining my job. It's a lot, so needless to say, lunchtime hacks were desperately needed. As a registered dietitian, I try to feed my daughter nourishing foods that will help keep her focused and satisfied through the day. I don't feed her supersugary foods that will lead to a midday crash or overly heavy foods that will make her feel sluggish. However,...

This month, Berkeley public schools, like many school districts across the country, announced they will not start the year with full-time, in-person school. Soon after, J Li, a business-innovation strategist who lives in the area, noticed moms in the local Facebook groups turn, like starlings at dusk, to one topic in particular: homeschool pods.Reluctant to face more months supervising Zoom classes, wealthy parents are grouping together in families of three or four and hiring someone to privately teach their children, at a cost of thousands of dollars a month.“So what are poor parents going to do?” I asked Li.“I mean,...

Homeschoolers in action at, from left, the White Plains Library in Westchester County, N.Y.; an extracurricular drumming class in Mount Rainier, Md., and a program that is a blend of homeschooling and traditional classroom instruction at Da Vinci Charter School in Hawthorne, Calif. Homeschooled students are isolated and at urgent risk of harm from maltreatment, under-education, and parental abuse. That’s the case Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet made in her recent call to ban the practice, which has been legal in all 50 U.S. states for more than a quarter-century. Ironically, Bartholet’s article in the Arizona Law Review appeared...

Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. I hesitate to say this definitively, because I know things can change, but... We may have found the math program that is right for us? Well, the one that is right for one of my children, at least. But it's really, really right for him!! CTCMath has so much available in one place, and instead of having to buy each course separately, it's...