When We Tell Our Stories

No one is judging you for your story and your choices. They’re just telling their own.

HSLDA Opposes Anti-Bullying Bill

“How HSLDA can take such an important bill and turn it into a threat to homeschoolers is utterly beyond me.”

I Shall Not Live in Vain: Jael’s Story

“It was not so much homeschooling that traumatized me as much as my mother’s mental illness. This was hidden by homeschooling, and the pain that damaged me came from the constant exposure to her psychiatric illness. I feel like someone roasted me over a fire, leaving me with burns to rest the remainder of my life, and I didn’t even know at the time what fire was.”

Today I’m Proud of Joshua Harris

“Forging our own paths after the level of parental control homeschooling afforded our parents isn’t easy, but it’s worth it.”

3 Ways Homeschoolers Actually Socialize Differently than School Kids

“When parents homeschool, they take their children’s social needs solely into their hands, and that’s not a responsibility they should take lightly.”

When Home Is Worse Than Rape: Cora’s Story

“My first memories are from when I was 3 or 4. We were living in Little Rock, Arkansas. I remember every detail about that house. We had a cocker spaniel named Lacey. She was the only person/animal that I was ever emotionally attached to for many, many years.”

A Homeschooling Adventure: Homeschooling on the Open Seas, Harmony’s Story

“When I was turning 11, my dad remarried, and retired from his job to sweep us all away on an adventure of a lifetime. His plan was to sail down the Caribbean, in a 40-ft boat, and go through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific, and finally settle in New Zealand.”

When Homeschoolers Turn Violent: Christian Longo

“When Homeschoolers Turn Violent” is a joint research project by Homeschoolers Anonymous and Homeschooling’s Invisible Children.

When Homeschooling Gets Crunchy: Darcy S.’s Thoughts

“Alumni like me have a lot to offer to the conversation of ‘new wave homeschooling,’ but I feel that often our concerns are brushed aside since ‘oh, well, we aren’t religious so we won’t have the same problems you did.’ But they already are showing signs of the same problems the original homeschoolers had, just from a completely different point of view.”

How I Left My Parents’ Home

“I spent my first 17 years in some kind of survival state of mind. When I got out and was living with another family, I experienced a whole different lifestyle. The parents worked and provided for the family. I had a few chores like some laundry and dishes, but my job as a student was to do school.”