The Homeschool Catholic Companion

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Straight talk: parent-to-parent, along with thousands of helpful, classroom-tested, homeschooling secrets

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Selected and Edited by Maureen Wittmann and Rachel Mackson

43 Catholic homeschoolers share their tips, tricks, and techniques to make your homeschool a happier, holier, and more productive learning environment for you and each of your children.

Here's your one-stop resource for information, insight, and inspiration about every aspect of educating your children at home - written by those who understand it best: homeschooling parents themselves!

Would you like to teach science or phonics better?  Introduce your child to Latin, piano, or great works of art?  Try new classroom approaches that other parents find effective? In these pages, you'll find helpful essays from more than forty veteran homeschooling parents to help you do all this and more.  You'll also find wise advice and practical tips to make you a better teacher and your homeschool more productive and enjoyable.

Of course, homeschooling involves more than academics.  That's why The Catholic Homeschool Companion includes essays to help you foster your children's moral and spiritual development, involve time-challenged dads, teach kids with special needs or in special circumstances, and handle other common problems homeschoolers face.

Are you frustrated tryng to fulfill state academic standards or diocesan requirements for sacramental preparation?  No problem!  Here's shrewd advice from parents who've fought those battles already.

There's also humor to lighten your heart when the daily grind gets you down, and, for those really bad times when you wonder whether homeschooling is even worth it, The Catholic Homeschool Companion brings you heartening testimony from teenagers and young adults who tell how grateful they are that their parents taught them at home. 

Information, insight, and inspiration: it's all right here in The Catholic Homeschool Companion, the must own resource for new and experienced homeschoolers alike.

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I'm in the process of deciding whether or not homeschooling is the path I'm going to take for educating my children.  Currently one child is in a private school and the other is enrolled in the local public school.  For years now, I have felt a strong pull to homeschool so I figured it might be beneficial for me to learn more about homeschooling.  The Catholic Homeschool Companion has been a wonderful book for answering questions I have about homeschooling.

The book is a collection of essays written by forty-three authors on a wide range of homeschool topics.  The book is divided into eleven chapters each of which covers a specific topic.  Perhaps you're new to homeschooling or are like me and are trying to decide if it's right for your family.  You can page through the contents and find the chapters that hone in on your most pressing question Full Review...

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