Thank you for the info. I'll go through the items you recommended.

I'm in rural Ohio. I'll start figuring out the laws.

I'll continue looking at curriculums. The key thing for me is making sure that down the road they don't get hurt by being home schooled. I know that some home school options will get you a public school degree or a GED, which can get you into a lot of 2 year or trade schools. I just want to make sure they can do better than their parents and aren't hindered by not having a state sponsored degree.

You mentioned workbooks and hand writing. I bought a dry erase book at my local book store that has tracing for numbers, letters, and some misc items like matching items by drawing a line between them. My 4 yr old loves it and it's been helping with her drawing skills a lot. She can trace letters but usually doesn't want to :-) It's nice because you can wipe the page down instead of needing another workbook.

As for your comments on sitting kids in a school all day. My wife and I had a similar conversation. Without even getting into the modern problems with school you have the travel to and from school, lunch, study hall, breaks, and gym class. That's around 4 hours of your day right there. When you add the time a teacher takes to start and end a class then it's probably even less time learning than we think. You could do so much more with your kids time by not leaving them there the 2nd half the day to be baby sat.

Thank you for the info. I'll go through the items you recommended.

I'm in rural Ohio. I'll start figuring out the laws.

I'll continue looking at curriculums. The key thing for me is making sure that down the road they don't get hurt by being home schooled. I know that some home school options will get you a public school degree or a GED, which can get you into a lot of 2 year or trade schools. I just want to make sure they can do better than their parents and aren't hindered by not having a state sponsored degree.

You mentioned workbooks and hand writing. I bought a dry erase book at my local book store that has tracing for numbers, letters, and some misc items like matching items by drawing a line between them. My 4 yr old loves it and it's been helping with her drawing skills a lot. She can trace letters but usually doesn't want to :-) It's nice because you can wipe the page down instead of needing another workbook.