Great Homeschool Magazines

Homeschool Digest -Christian meaty articles on every homeschool subject (teaching, socialization, courtship and much more.) You'll find practical tips, simple suggestions and bold biblical challenges that make up an open forum for wrestling through the complex issues that affect home-schooling families.

Articles include interviews written by Elisabeth Elliot, Valerie Bendt, Joni Eareckson Tada, John Taylor Gatto, Kay Marshal Strom, William J. Bennett, Mike Smith (HSLDA), Cheri Fuller, Dennis Peterson, Lorraine Curry, Susan Wise Bauer and others.They offer several contests with great prizes.

The Link - A free Homeschool Newspaper!

Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Includes: Detailed product reviews - dozens in every issue; special Features that take the mystery out of topics like special education, college preparation, and how to teach a child to read; "Day at Our House" Diaries - how other families do it; Applause - reports of homeschool excellence from across the globe; News Shorts - know what's going on; Nationally known columnists cover all major homeschool methods, plus history, math, and organizing tips 'n tricks! A Mary Pride publication. 

Unless the Lord ...Magazine - Besides homeschooling, this magazine deals with many other topics of common concern to many homeschoolers as well, such as: courtship, home births, family friendly and home churches, home business, country living, building your own home and a lot about Christian marriage and childrearing in general. A few key differences from other homeschooling magazines: 1) There is a lot of personal sharing of testimonies - not just theories and ideas. Primary Topics Covered Biblical Courtship / Betrothal / Home Churches / Family Friendly Churches / Christian Marriage & Child Raising / Moving to the Country/ Country Living / Home Schooling / Home Education / Designing & Building Your Own Home / Home Births / Midwife Assisted Births / Home Business / Working From Home. 

The Utmost Way Magazine - The Utmost Way Magazine is a free publication of Utmost Enterprises, provided by a home school family. This publication is designed to benefit home school families, Christians, and hopes to reach the unsaved with the blessing of Jesus Christ. One of the main features for homeschoolers is the new research library that serves as a one-stop resource for doing school work, book reports, and research papers.

Homeschool Today - a publication and an on-line destination full of ready-to-use curriculum, teaching tips, resources, and practical encouragement for you as a home educator. Written from a Christian perspective.

Home Education Magazine - This magazine has been in print since 1983. You may read some of their issues on line at their site.

The Teaching Home - This magazine is written for homeschoolers by homeschoolers and has been around since 1980. Their purpose is to provide information, inspiration, and support to Christian home-school families and Christian home-school state and national organizations.

At Home In America - A free publication by homeschool veterans. Read it online or request a free print copy. Get encouragement and insight from people who've been where you want to be and gone through similar situations.

Homefires - The Journal of Homeschooling - Homefires The Journal of Homeschooling began in 1992 as a forum for networking information and resources among home educators in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has grown to include a national audience. Articles in Homefires enrich understanding in educational philosophy, learning differences and styles, and include open-ended curriculum supplementation in history, math, science, geography, multi-cultural awareness, economics, computers, internet resources, reading, cooking, cinema, music, and arts and crafts. 

Homeschool Fun Online Magazine - great resource for online articles on homeschooling, a message board, pen-pals, classifieds and more. 

Home Educator's Family Times - Lots of helpful, interesting features online to read.

HELM Home Education Learning Magazine - A bimonthly print publication focusing on independent learning and self-directed education.

Educate - Homeschooling News Online

Above Rubies - Above Rubies is a magazine to encourage women in their high calling as wives, mothers, and homemakers. Its purpose is to uphold and strengthen family life and to raise the standard of God's truth in the nation. The name has been chosen from Proverbs 31.10 AMP, " A capable, intelligent and virtuous woman, who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far Above Rubies or pearls." EXCELLENT!

Magazines for Large Families

Love@Home - Finally an Internet site for Above-Average Families! It is called Love@Home, it is Fun "E-Zine" for Large Families (any family with more than 2.2 children). Find articles and columns on managing a large family, emergency preparedness, family finance, life on the farm, scrap booking, parenting, home schooling, traditions, and kids. Plus reviews, recipes and fun.

Unless the Lord ...Magazine - See description above. 

The Full Quiver - Resources for those folks considering leaving "family planning" in the hands of the One who designed us all in the first place. The Quiver-Full! Digest is a discussion group is an Internet-based forum for Christian couples who eagerly accept their children as blessings from God, and eschew birth control, natural family planning, and sterilization. The daily e-mail digest offers encouragement, information, and fellowship to its subscribers.

Magazines for Teens

New Attitude - a magazine for homeschool teens by Joshua Harris.

Hope Chest on the Web - Web site includes subscription link and selected articles from Hope Chest Home School News (a free monthly e-mail newsletter with lots of inspiration and information for home education) and myriad web links.

Educational & Fun Magazines for Children

Kids' Town  - A quarterly newsletter "for homeschool kids, by homeschool kids" Home learners are invited to submit their jokes, original stories, art, poems, reviews, quizzes, ideas, etc.

American Girl - Lots of fun things for girls to do on this site, beside subscribing to the magazine.

Cobblestone Publishing Company - Publishers of several non-fiction magazines about history, world culture and science.

Ranger Rick - specially designed to appeal to today's active, inquisitive kids. The pages are bright and glossy, visually exciting, filled with colorful animal photos, funny drawings, exciting stories, and intriguing bits of information that keep boys and girls turning pages, looking closer, and eager to find out more! 

Science At Home - created for parents, teachers, and children of kindergarten through sixth grade who want to learn about science through the most interactive, hands-on, and engaging methods possible.

Zoobooks -  guide to the world's most fascinating animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. Each monthly issue features 24 pages of striking wildlife photography, insightful writing, colorful illustrations, and diagrams that explain in simple terms things that make "animal facts" come alive for your child.

Magazines for Internet Homeschooling 

Homeschoolers Online - A section of Christian Computing Magazine dedicated to homeschooling.

Magazines for Eclectic Homeschoolers

Eclectic Homeschool -  Eclectic homeschoolers pick and choose among homeschooling styles. The magazine for creative homeschoolers.

Magazines for Unschoolers

F.U.N. - News is the quarterly newsletter of the Family Unschoolers Network. It is designed for the entire family and everyone is invited to submit articles, artwork, news, reviews or anything else that is relevant to their lives. 

Growing Without Schooling - Table of contents of the current issue or order back issues in groups by topic, such as teen homeschoolers. Wish they would put the past articles online!

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