This booklet is the first in a series designed to assist parents who are home-schooling their adolescent children and focuses on the socialization of home-schooled adolescents. The booklet advances the view that pivotal social experiences plus daily age-peer contact are not needed to produce socially competent individuals, that real world…

Teenage alumni of homeschooling reflect on their educational experiences and life lessons regarding the value of work, the benefits of persistence and effort in meeting their goals, and accepting individual differences. Homeschooling is an alternative lifestyle, a way of being a family that incorporates nurturing children's minds as well as their…

Grace Llewellyn, author of "The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education," discusses how her educational experiences as both student and teacher influenced her support of teens liberating themselves from school and "rising out." Llewellyn also discusses innovative learning practices, a camp for teenage…