• I have two teenagers, whom I've been homeschooling for six years. • Before we started homeschooling, I had plenty of misconceptions about it. • I was wrong to think that it would be too hard and that they wouldn't have a social life.

My kids attended public school through their fourth and sixth grade years.

In Florida, where we live, middle school starts in seventh grade, and hearing moms with older kids talk of how stressful middle and high school would be filled me with anxiety.

I wanted something different for my soon-to-be teenagers — a schooling experience full of travel and exploring their interests. Homeschooling intrigued me, but I had just as many worries about making the change as I did about sending them off to middle school.

Armed with books from the library, includin

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