Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families [Paperback]

Carren Joye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 14, 2005

Here’s a book that addresses the special challenges of homeschooling two or more children for parents just starting to homeschool and veterans desiring fresh ideas. From extensive research and personal experience, author Carren W. Joye provides a comprehensive collection of quick tips and long-term solutions to make homeschooling more than one child a successful and rewarding experience.

This sensible guide offers practical ideas on balancing the needs of different ages and abilities, juggling multiple commitments, choosing or designing a curriculum to fit each child, finding socialization opportunities that appeal to all ages, and more!

Whether you plan a traditional, eclectic or unschooling approach, you can use this book to:

• Get started and meet state regulations
• Organize multiple schedules, materials and records
• Motivate your children and avoid burnout
• Tackle housework while homeschooling
• Use the Internet and free software to make homeschooling easy and affordable even for a large family

Regardless of the number of children in your family, Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families is a reference you can turn to throughout your homeschooling endeavor!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Carren W. Joye is founder of a statewide homeschool covering and co-founder of a regional homeschool support group. The author of A Stay-at-Home Mom’s Complete Guide to Playgroups and numerous articles on homeschooling, Carren has always homeschooled her four children. She resides near Montgomery, Alabama.
http://www.carrenjoye.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 146 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595342590
• ISBN-13: 978-0595342594
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good information and easy to read, May 29, 2006

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Heather Martin (The Republic of Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families (Paperback)

I appreciate any book about homeschooling that addresses teaching more than one child. I found a lot of the information to be helpful yet very basic. We're only in our first year of homeschooling, but I felt like I knew much of this already. If you've spent a considerable amount of time reading about homeschooling then you probably wouldn't need this book. It does, however, have some excellent ideas about discipline problems that could make it worth your time. I also really appreciate her attitude that you can have a clean and organized home while homeschooling. Overall, it was a well-written book - easy to read with some good information.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best little books on homeschooling out there., August 24, 2006

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Christine Read (Ohatchee, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families (Paperback)

I have been homeschooling my children for over 12 years now and have collected a rather large library of homeschooling books and resources. I was interested in this book because, with 8 children, I am always looking for fresh ideas on teaching several children at once, managing the household along with homeschooling, etc. This is the best, most concise and straightforward book on homeschooling I have seen. It is filled with practical ideas, simple solutions, lots of resources and lots of encouragement to the new and veteran homeschooler. If you are just beginning to homeschool or perhaps need some new ideas or approaches, get this book. I especially would recommend it to anyone who is considering homeschooling, because it so brilliantly and simply lays out in an organized manner everything you need to know to get started.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An easy-to-use and quite innovative instructional guide for proper assessment, April 9, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families (Paperback)

Home Schooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide For Families by Carren W. Joye (founder of a statewide homeschool regional support group) is an easy-to-use and quite innovative instructional guide for proper assessment, coordination, and organizing of homeschooling parents with multiple students. Introducing the reader to more efficient, effective, and practical methods of collectively motivating, scheduling, educating and balancing a number of homeschooled students, Home Schooling More Than One Child also teaches of how one might approach various ages, doing housework, afford internet, retain a social focus for the children and much more. Home Schooling More Than One Child is very highly recommended to all parents looking for a more supplemental and effective approach to homeschooling their more one student at a time.