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Tennessee Homeschooling

Welcome to your ultimate guide to homeschooling in Tennessee! More and more families in the United States are choosing homeschooling as a positive choice for their child’s education. Tennessee is an example of this trend, with the number of homeschooled children growing every year. Navigate the wealth of information on homeschooling in Tennessee as you explore our website. We’ve made it easy for you to find all the tips, ideas, and information you need to successfully homeschool your children.

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A Charlotte Mason Education

Featuring articles from the back issues of The Charlotte Mason Monthly, a newsletter published monthly since 1999. Includes information on narration, nature study, developing good habits, scheduling, reader tips, and more. Helpful to homeschoolers are special sections on using Charlotte Mason's ideas and techniques in an individual home environment.

FCL: Family-Centered Learning - Catholic Charlotte Mason Group

A group designed to discuss Charlotte Mason's methods from a Catholic perspective.

Organizing Your Homeschool Day

If clutter and outside activities are taking over your life, you need a plan and some routine in your life. Get tips on how to plan and prioritize your work, and to respond appropriately with flexibility when life gets hectic.

Education In The Marketplace

Our educational systems today are based on government coercion. The fact that the student body is a captive audience frees educators from any urgent need to satisfy the wishes of their clientele. Pupils cannot "vote" with their feet; parents cannot "vote" with their tax dollars.

Why and How to Get Connected

In this day and age, homeschoolers represent a market. There are many businesses catering to homeschoolers' needs--or perceived needs. When first starting out it can be especially tempting to sign up for a multitude of classes or experiences that are being sold to you, rather than putting your energy into a grassroots network such as a local homeschool support group. Before you know it, your days are filled with activity and you don't look back. The intangibles you'd be missing out on--real connection with other homeschoolers and personal empowerment--might be some of the best kept secrets of homeschooling, as well as what would sustain you on this path in the end. This article includes some examples and ideas of rituals and social events you can organize.

Single Parents Who Home School Email Group

Support and encouragement for single parents that are or want to home school their children.

Unexpected Liberation: The Home Educating House Dad

This blog chronicles the life and times of a homeschooling father.

CMSeries

This list is designed for anyone wishing to learn more about the Charlotte Mason method of education from reading her own books and engaging in discussions of a philosophical nature.

Meet the Unschoolers

This article features a look at several unschoolers, children--now adults--who were raised with a philosophy of child-led learning. They explain their thoughts on their childhood and discuss how the unique and sometimes radical way of learning that is unschooling shaped their decisions and choices as adults.