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One day you look into your 4-year-old’s dewy eyes and realize there’s no way you can send this baby, the delight of your life, into a cold, hard building filled with strangers. Dearest parent, you have just made the first steps toward deciding to homeschool your offspring. If you continue along this path, you will be up to your eyeballs in coloring pages and math manipulatives all too soon.

If that does happen, congratulations! When you begin with the little ones, it’s not the same as pulling them from school after three or five years of public or private education. You get to start from the start and begin from the beginning. When they learn to read it’s because you taught them that skill, or because they figured it out on their own before you got to it (a relatively rare occurrence, but it does happen). You get to see the delight in your child’s eyes the first time he realizes that two candies plus two candies equals four candies in his mouth. Priceless. Chapter 6 gives you the subject-by-subject lowdown of the elementary school years.