what is some advice on homeschooling a teenager?

Answer 1

I think that teens should really start pursuing educational things outside the home-- volunteering and community work, maybe an apprenticeship or part-time job, classes or groups in things that interest them whatever they may be.

Also read the Teenage Liberation Handbook-- both of you.

Answer 2

The best advice I can give is to relax and enjoy a couple of cocktails with some snacks and your favorite soap on TV.

Because you're homeschooling, no matter what you've done, your teen is intrinsically superior to all of his or her peers and is also already perfectly socialized and pretty much ready for medical school at this very moment. You probably should consider some growth based equity funds for all of the money that is doubtlessly accruing from royalties for the scientific and technological inventions that your child patented in his primary school years. Don't bother asking your child who they are dating because you know it's going to be someone extremely wholesome and extremely Christian who would never even think about having sex. You'll probably also need a crowbar to wrest all those Faulkner and Tolstoy novels from his eager hands and make him go to bed instead of staying up until 2 AM feeding homeless people and having Bible study down at the church.

Anyone who might have a teeny-tiny suggestion about something that you just MIGHT want to watch out for is obviously a hack homeschool detractor who is doomed to spend eternity consumed by the fire of hell.

Answer 3

Well, if you started homeschooling before being a teenager, it wouldn't change much more than it would for any other teen. You continue on and gradually allow more freedom and choices, both in work, free time and in academics.

If you are starting to homeschool with a person who is already a teenager, then it might be a little more difficult. They are already adjusted to public school and life, and you should transition slowly into a more free lifestyle. Someone recommended the Teenage Liberation Handbook, way cool for newly freed teens.

Teens have different needs than younger children, and far different needs than adults. it's a new time of life, one in which they are learning independence, self reliance and most importantly, who they really are. They need time to explore, exposure to lots of different belief systems and cultures and lots of free time to mentally wrestle new info. JMO though, your mileage may vary.

Answer 4

Homeschooling a teenager may be hard at first, nbut in the long run, you get out of school early, you can graduate early, and I finished a whole year of school in less than half a year that you would in a public school. And I only worked for 2 hours a day. It really depends on how smart your child is. If your child is smart than homeschooling is great. But if she needs a little bit more help, as hard as it is to believe homeschooling is not the thing!
You also need to let your child get out and be with his/her friends on a regular basis or it will get very hard. I am graduating at 16 and I never thought that I could get through it but I did. You just got to push!

Answer 5

Independence is key. When you're homeschooling a six-year old, you can sit him down at the kitchen table with finger paint. When you're homeschooling a 16-year old, it's completely different.

I don't know what your method is, but make as much of it as possible independent.

I'd recommend giving him weekly assignments. For example:

Math: Five lessons
English: Read and summarize three chapters
Science: Four pages of physics

Et cetera. Then either let him correct his work himself -when I was doing that, I never cheated and it got rid of all my anxiety about doing well- or take an hour or two each Saturday or Sunday to correct his work.

Let him call as many shots as possible. If he wants to throw himself in to robotics, don't make him write three essays when he's itching to go build a bionic arm.

Some parents want to homeschool their teenagers to keep them from dating, or to keep them close for as long as possible. If you're trying to do that, let me tell you from my experience with my friends that it's going to fail. If you say that he can't date that's virtually guaranteed to have him going way too far either to spite you, or he'll have a lot of repressed energy and action combined with no experience.

Answer 6

Well I am homeschoolong my teenager, atually he's homeschoolong himself. Were in Florida and they have a virtual school put on by the state, it's accreditate and he has 5 subjects and real teachers that grade his work all of the computor. That way you dont have to worry about the laws. My son is responsible for the work, at a certain pace, which is about 5-6 hours per week.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Well being a homeshooled teen i would suggest:
Letting things kind of go with the flow.
Try to do allot of extracurricular programs like:a sport, drama, music, and reading oriented programs.

I have pretty much all ways thought myself without the help of parents.
That way i learn at my own pace and can study when i want.
This is more unbschooling , but i hope it helps!

Answer 9

get this book: the teenage liberation handbook.
after you read it give it to your child, I was homeschooled through high school and I read this book a lot!

Answer 10

True story: I had a friend in grade school who either accumulated enough credits or dropped out of high school at 16 and went directly to college. He got his B.A. at 19 and had plans to continue to grad school. His proud parents rewarded him with a trip to anywhere in the world he wanted to go, and he was killed falling off a mountain in some remote locale. Tomorrow is promised to no one. But as for home school, you have to make sure he/she takes it seriously, does their work in a timely and careful manner, and you must be prepared to impose the discipline that the schools would to make this happen. I agree with the other comments about socialization as well. That's an important function of education.