Have you ever wanted to sit down with an experienced homeschooling couple and ask them every question you could think of about homeschooling? Managers of Their Schools: A Practical Guide to Homeschooling is the next best thing. With eight children and twenty-three years as a homeschooling family, Steve and Teri share their answers to the questions they are frequently asked.

This book is filled with practical information regarding how one family homeschools, what they use, why they do what they do, and how it all works for them. Details of homeschooling in a real-life family are set down, from how they make curricula decisions to whether their children take tests.

After spending their first twelve years searching for a homeschool method that met their Scriptural and educational criteria, they finally began using Christian textbooks and have never wanted to change direction again. In this book, Steve and Teri share the benefits their family has gained from using textbooks, and they refute the reasons many will say homeschoolers should not use textbooks.

There is a chapter written by their four adult children sharing some of their homeschool thoughts, particularly with regard to using Christian textbooks. One of the chapters is directed specifically to dads and another one to moms. The appendix of Managers of Their Schools includes ten of their school schedules, several assignment sheets, a listing of the school curricula and resources they use, plus coupon codes for discounts on some of them, and their reading criteria.

Whether or not you use the same method to home educate as they do, you will find a wealth of tried-and-true, daily-life homeschool information. Make your homeschooling journey that much easier, more efficient, and more joyful by learning from a family who has already walked the path.

• Assignment Sheets
• School Schedules
• Preferred Resources
• Resource Discounts (The discounts alone would easily cover the cost of the book.)
• Indexed
• Practical
• Experiential
• Biblically based
• Adult Children's Homeschool Testimonies
• Spiral bound so the book lays flat (just like the other two Managers books)
  

More comments from the families who have read the book

"This book is very helpful in helping me set up, run, and continue my homeschool." A mom

"For the struggling homeschool family, it would be particularly helpful, but it would also give tips and scriptural support to the satisfied homeschool family as well." A mom

"I sure am glad to have been informed on so many different aspects of homeschooling before I begin the journey!" A mom

"My praise is high for the Managers of Their Schools book. This book fills a niche unspoken of by others in this field. And, oh, how exhilarating that is to my planning for next year. Our schooling this year found us committing to a particular curricula program. I was worried that our year might be stale. And Teri confirmed everything I learned this year about the beauty of routine, blooming independent learners, less work on my part and fantastic end-of-year outcomes.

"We took a harder look at preparations for next year and my husband is happy to a.) see me happy, b.) see our kids happy, focused and more Christ centered, and c.) have me sharing the planning, problem solving, and praying actively about this year and the next. The planning section and sharing that with him has shifted his outlook about his family role into an even deeper and broader one. While I have always enjoyed my husband's support, he is taking up a long range stance in forwarding our family mission in a more active way by the sharing of this book and my notes as I've read it.

"The new thing I have begun per Teri is keeping my planning form on the computer and updating as an idea or problem occurs. I have set up a month-by-month grid to build in and plan for in our school and family time for those special ways we can more actively live and share our faith and celebrate the milestones in a deeper way. Planning our traditions and building cohesiveness.

"While we have a lot to do, this book gave me the freedom to continue our journey without doubt, the encouragement to make the needed changes, and the insight to see how another family found solid answers and adjusted curricula to fit needs. The #1 praise I give to the Lord for the Maxwell family is an example of following HIM without the nonsense of worldliness. That is sanity and salve to our souls here!

Thank you, SL"

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