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Homeschool Support Groups
Whether you're new or a seasoned veteran, support is
something we all look for. It might be as simple as
reading a humorous blog, talking to others on a busy
mailing list, listening to inspiring radio shows or
meeting up in real-life for classes, park days or a
sanity-saving cuppa joe. I don't list everything, of
course. . . . . Yet.
National
Support Group News
News and announcements, courtesy of Home Education
Magazine.
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Education news from across the western states.
Getting The Support You Need Without a Formal
Support Group
I frequently get asked by both homeschoolers and
non-homeschoolers whether or not we belong to a support
group. It is the query from the homeschooler that
always causes me to trip over my tongue.
Contact
Cindy
To add your support group, or tell me about any good
resource I missed.
Online
Support
Chat
Homeschoolers' Live Chat
Real-time conversation every Friday. Always open topic,
with homeschoolers from all around the world.
Good Blogs
Blogs and Kids - Staying Safe and Having
Fun
Blogs are an
awesome tool. Just like any tool, you can take
precautions to make it safe. By Tammy Takahashi.
an A to Z Home's Cool
article
Carnival of
Homeschooling
A
"traveling blog", hosted by a different homeschool
blogger every Tuesday. Lotsa
fun!
HEM Support Groups
Encouragement and support for support group volunteers.
Home Education and Other
Stuff
Daryl Cobranchi's wry look at homeschooling, education
and pretty much everything else.
Homeschooling News and
Commentary
Homeschooling in the national media, with commentary by
Valerie Moon.
Homeschooling is Life!
Humorous unschooling articles courtesy of Nancy Baetz,
a delight-directed, life-happens kind of mom.
Life Without School
A popular carnival blog (many homeschoolers
contributing to the writings).
Throwing Marshmallows
Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If
he's not interested, it's like throwing marshmallows at
his head and calling it eating.
Unschooling Voices
A natural-learning carnival blog, with a new topic each
month, like Deschooling, Allowances - Yes or No?,
Unschooling Math, Is Unschooling ONLY About the Kids?
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
--- Margaret Mead
Mailing Lists / Loops
Yahoo Groups had over 4,000 listings for 'homeschool groups' last time I was there. If you can't find what you need here, just click on the link and search. Take the name of your state or region, and add variations on the word 'homeschool'. Examples: Arizona unschoolers. Montana home educators. Colorado LDS homeschooling. Small word of caution, though. Some of the Yahoo lists are 'ghost lists'. They're there, but nobody's using them. Tip: look for postings within the last 30 days.
Another Path
Support, a forum and lots of resources for deaf homeschoolers.
HFTF Homeschooling Family to Family
A Christian fellowship and home schooling mentor resource. They want to encourage seasoned home schoolers to mentor at least one family per year by reaching out to relatives and friends and by helping them take the first step into home schooling. Email Jube Dankworth or call her at (713) 937-7510.
Home-Ed List
The granddaddy of all homeschool mailing lists. Founded in 1989 as an online gathering place for homeschoolers of every type: academic, structured, unschoolers, religious, pagan, what-have-you.
HEM - Home Education Magazine
HEM sponsors a variety of lists: New Homeschoolers, Networking, and Homeschool Politics are just 3 examples.
Homeschool Leaders
Restricted to support group leaders (or potential leaders) of inclusive groups.
Homeschool Webmasters
Ann Zeise's techie-talk list for anyone starting or maintaining a homeschool web site.
LDS Homeschool Leaders
The official list of Latter Day Saints' support group leaders.
NHEN - New SG
For folks looking to start homeschool support groups in their area.
Taking Children Seriously
Centers around TCS philosophy, which encompasses non-coercive parenting.
Train-Up-A-Child
Designed to be a relaxed, informative, and all-around pleasant forum for discussing the practical aspects of Christian home schooling. No political or theological debates allowed.
Unschooling List
Whether you're new to unschooling or an old-time veteran, this is the list for you. The UL is tolerant, very friendly, and religiously-diverse. (This is the mailing list I helped start in 1995, and owned until 1999. Just in case you wanted to know some trivia today.)
Radio (Online and otherwise)
HomeSchoolingRadio.com
Heard around the world, headquartered in Idaho. A new show every morning, hosted by homeschoolers Leland and Kathie Fleming.
Radio Free School
Is radio for unschoolers, broadcast by an unschooling family in Canada. They come up with a variety of speakers (oftentimes on-the-fly), any number of topics and a new show is broadcast every Wednesday. If this week's theme doesn't float your boat, browse the archives on their website. Also check out their blog, which begins, "Tantrum space for un-schoolers at radio free school, the weekly radio show by for and about people who eschew factory learning. Open season on all things we might bump up against."
Support Groups in Real Life
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