By Kathy Green

Compulsory school attendance doesn’t begin until the date of the 6th birthday in Maine. For parents who are homeschooling, that date marks the beginning of the required annual notification and assessment process. But many parents are homeschooling children well before that date. In fact, some parents make the decision to homeschool before their child is born!

Homeschooling from birth to age 6 looks a lot different than homeschooling for school-aged children. During these early years, it’s often more about nurturing, awakening curiosity, and building foundational skills through play and everyday experiences than following a formal curriculum.

By Advanced Brain Technologies

Beyond Behavior

Behavior is one of the most misunderstood signals in children and adults.

For years, we have built classrooms, clinics, and even parenting strategies around the idea that behavior can be managed with the right tools. We offer rewards for following the rules. We give consequences when someone breaks them. We stay firm. We stay consistent.

But what happens when those strategies do not work? 

What if a child keeps shutting down? What if a student melts down over small changes? What if the same behavior repeatedly shows up, no matter what we try?

 This is where many families and professionals find themselves. They are doing their best and following the plan, but their behavior is not changing, and deep down, they know something is missing.

By Michelle Collomy

What an exciting time to be alive! As the world seems to grow darker with every story told on the evening news, the Light of Christ gets brighter. Many places in the Bible reference "a remnant" of people who have remained faithful to the Lord.

When the modern homeschool movement began to ignite across our state and our nation back in the 1970s and ‘80s, people from all walks of life came together for the common idea that parents could actually direct the education of their own children.  Many homeschool pioneers and advocates have come and gone through the years. Parents successfully educated their children at home and moved on. Some left a legacy in their own families and communities that lives on today, giving others the confidence to embrace this way of life. 

By Hannah Overlock  

Learning is a process. It is often messy, spontaneous, and happens in unexpected ways. That is one of the beauties of homeschooling. You can teach your child in the way that they learn best, in their own time. This can cause many families to struggle showing all of the many topics their child has learned when the end-of-the-year assessment comes.  

Here are some tips to keep in mind at the beginning of the school year to make your year as stress-free as possible.

By Rachel Vallance

If you are of a certain age you may remember the theme from the PBS show Reading Rainbow, “take a look, it’s in a book!” If our homeschool had a motto that would be it, and if I had to name our learning style it would be Librarian-ism, or perhaps Biblio-Chao-tech: Books, Chaos, and a bit of tech. One wonderful thing about homeschooling is you can mix up learning styles to fit your child(ren). In our house it is always book central.