Home schooling is becoming an increasingly popular method of educating children. Anybody who is considering home schooling, or already home schools, will enjoy reading home schooling blogs. There is a wide variety of information to be found that can help a parent choose what method and what curriculum to use when deciding to home school their child. Check out the following blogs to learn more.

1) Who Needs School?

There are many methods of homeschooling to choose from. One increasingly popular method is unschooling, or child-led learning. As an unschooling family, the author at Who Needs School? provides details about how they accomplish educational excellence without any structured curriculum. If you’ve ever wondered just how a child can learn what they need to know without following a set of strictly guided curricula, then this site will lead you on a journey of understanding just what is involved in unschooling.

2) Adventures of a Big Homeschool Family

Adventures of a Big Homschool Family is filled with tips and ideas, as well as the daily adventures of homeschooling. Tracy provides plenty of interesting information to help all families work through the daily tasks of life. She talks about her weekly progress with schooling her kids, as well as the struggles she encounters on the way. This site is a great reminder that we all face difficulties, and those difficulties can be faced and conquered no matter how small or large your family is.

3) Melissa’s Homeschool Blog

Melissa is a jewelry maker and gemstone collector who also happens to be a home schooler. Her site gives useful information for any home schooler. She lists her weekly lesson plans for each child and also has a list at the very bottom of her site to indicate her favorite educational websites. Her site provides great resources for home schooling families in a way that also allows the reader to get to know the author and her family on a more personal level.

4) Heathen Homeschoolers

Well, as the name sates, over at Heathen Homeschoolers they are just a bunch of heathens. The focus of the Heathn Homeschoolers site is to approach home schooling from a secular point of view. Actually, the owner of this blog is very clear that the purpose of her site is to allow educational discussion without the pressure of religious rhetoric. It is often assumed that home schoolers choose to avoid the public school system for religious reasons. As such, it is difficult at times to find a home school group to participate in when your purposes for home schooling are not of a religious nature.

You won’t find religious based content at the Heathen Homeschoolers. You won’t find religious debate or religious lesson plans. As for what you will find in the Heathen World… you’ll find humor and tips and ideas and other important information that is useful to any and all home schoolers. You will also find an open door for anybody, no matter what your reasons for choosing to home school. The Heathens invite you to join them. When you go, be sure to tell them that I sent you…

5) Homeschool Hangout Zone

The landing page for the Homeschool Hangout Zone provides a set of links to other pages based on the topic that you wish to explore. There is also an “article of the day” posted here that is always quite informative.

When you choose the topic that you need information on, you are then redirected to a different portion of the site that provides topic specific articles. The information is well researched and given in a very easy to read manner. The authors there tend to believe textbooks are only a minor resource in your educational arsenal, so they give educational information in a less intimidating format.

6) Best Homeschool Place

The Best Homeschool Place provides reviews, resources, and many ideas for all home schoolers. It does not matter if you’ve been home schooling for years or if you are just beginning, you will find something to make your schooling easier or better. You will find craft projects to try, product reviews to consider, and free resouces to add to your home school curriculum. This is a good place to enhance your own understanding of what is available to home schoolers.