Busy, Working Parents --- 22 Ways To Homeschool Your Kids

If you're a single parent or a married couple on aYou could of-fer to work for slightly less money if
tight budget so that both parents have to work,your boss resists this arrangement.
you may worry about finding the time and5. Can you start a simple-to-run home business
energy to homeschool your children, but it can bethat would give you more free time.
done. It comes down to planning and scheduling6. Can you do all your home-schooling on
your time.weekends? If you can arrange concentrated
Most home-schooling parents teach their childrensix-to-ten-hour sessions on Saturday and Sunday,
about two to four hours a day and turn outyou'll be free to work at your job during the rest
well-educated kids. So the problem is how toof the week. Or you might try a combination of
squeeze in about ten to twenty hours a week forweekday and weekend home-schooling sessions.
home-schooling. Here are some suggestions:7. If you have no other alternatives,
1. Can you change your work schedule so thathome-schooling could be done in the evening, say
you can work in the afternoon or at night andfrom 7 to 10 P.M., or a combination of weekday
teach your children in the morning?nights and weekend sessions. 8. If you're married,
2. Can you work part time, leaving yourself timeget your husband or wife to help with the
for home-schooling?workload. Both parents should be in-volved in
3. Can you find a job in your local neighborhood sohome-schooling if possible.
that you don't waste one to three hoursIn my book, "Public Schools, Public Menace," I
commut-ing every day?describe 22 ways that parents can homeschool
4. Can you work from home? Computers, thetheir children, even if both parents work. Almost a
Internet, fax machines, and e-mail all makemillion parents now homeschool their kids, and
working from home relatively easy. Thousands ofmost of these parents work. You can do the
companies now offer this option to their workers.same.