Don't Be Worried if After Reading Through All the Methods You Gravitate Towards Traditional Homeschool.

Traditional homeschool merely means that you and your child prefer a traditional textbook approach. Don't let anyone tell you this is worthless, that you might as well put them back in public school, or that you lack creativity.

That is simply untrue.

Everyone knows that the best part of homeschool is the curriculum, so honestly, even if you decide to go the traditional route, you can make it all your own by the curriculum you choose. PLUS, you already know that Little Moe needs an individualized learning plan and to be allowed to progress at his own best pace, so you're doing fine.

Many new homeschoolers like the idea of traditional methods the first few years. I did the first year. In fact, do you want to know exactly what I did for methods the first year? I found a private school in Pennsylvania that listed all their curriculum for each grade online (we started in 7th remember) and I purchased everything, I mean EVERYTHING, they had on that list.

Some of it, like Vocabulary From Classical Roots, we still use! LOL..so there! It was sort of a classical approach and the next year I did find traditional homeschool publishers, but hey - it worked fine for us.

And it will work fine for you too if this is the method of choice for your homeschool.

In a way - traditional and eclectic methods are very similar. Right now I think I am a traditional textbook eclectic for the most part. I've done a little of everything and I keep what I like and throw out the rest. I like workbooks that are published by homeschool publishers.

I've tried several classroom publishers like Evan-Moor, but in the end it was too time consuming to adapt it for homeschool use.

They were forever wanting me to make copies of workbook pages...it just got annoying because all I wanted to do was write Do Monday or Do Wednesday at the top of the page for that day, rip it out of the book, and set it in his to do pile.

They didn't feel my pain...traditional homeschool...nothin' wrong with that.

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