Homeschooling Teenagers: How it Works

schools, worked on a community teen pregnancy prevention program, worked with disabled children and so on. This is what we homeschoolers call socialization-real world socialization, as opposed to sitting in a classroom with 30 students exactly your age for five or six hours a day. We think this is better preparation for real life than the artificial environment of school.

So to sum up homeschooling teenagers, the goal is to teach them to teach themselves, with you as the guide, and to learn the way they will have to learn in college. For the most part, college students teach themselves. They hear a lecture, but they read the books at home, and figure out the best way to teach themselves the material. If they need help, they ask for it. This is what my children are doing now. They have even reached a point where they no longer need math lessons. They read the instructions, do the work and check it against the answers. Often they will tell me they want to go back and review something they've forgotten, or plan to redo a section they feel they haven't mastered yet. They have taken responsibility for their own education.

That's the whole point of homeschooling.

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