So, I would like to share with you my vision for this blog. Homeschooling has changed a lot since 1989 when we started homeschooling our 11 year old daughter. Actually, we tried to start in 1983 when Rachael’s kindergarten teacher (Calvary Christian Academy in Denver, CO) told us that due to her ‘precociousness’,  she would do much better in a home school situation! I really wasn’t sure how to take that, but being somewhat of a 60’s throwback turned newborn Christian, I found the unconventional idea of homeschooling intriguing. However, at the time we were “professional” foster parents for an unwed mothers home and the administrators of the program did NOT like the idea at all. I guess they thought the young mothers might want to try it themselves or something.

Homeschooling is so much more accessible now, with abundant support available in almost every capacity, more curriculum choices than we know what to do with and last, but certainly NOT least-the internet! You could almost design an entire curriculum from online resources alone.

Aside from all the wonderful changes that the early homeschoolers didn’t have, there is one thing that hasn’t changed at all. The homeschool family’s finances, or lack thereof. It is a rare family that successfully homeschools without one parent staying home full time with the children. Homeschooling is definitely a full time job!

Our economy is geared around a two income household, which makes surviving on one income very difficult for the majority. Not that it can’t be done, and done well, I personally know many that have taken up the challenge enthusiastically, but I know more families that struggle with it immensely.

We were one of those families that struggled with it immensely, and found our solution in a variety of home business endeavors. Finding ideas and resources were scarce and scam awareness was not in my biological data base. As a result, over the last 20 years I have researched 100’s, if not over a thousand various ways a homeschool family can make money and maintain a respectable homeschool at the same time.

One day a friend was over and we were looking at an article on “How to Choose Your Perfect Business” and one of the questions was, “What do you know the most about?” While I was musing over the last 20 years of homeschooling, playing ’soccer mom’ and all the other mini businesses that I had run, my friend pops up with my long sought answer: “Your perfect business is finding home businesses!” I was always coming up with new ideas, or new takes on old ideas, and actually, was  probably almost annoying at my constant obsession with finding another “new” idea that could solve someone’s financial woes, but now I finally began to see how God might be able to use those countless hours searching every knowledge source I could lay my hands on.

All that to say is my vision for this blog is to put in print all the possible ideas and resources for homeschool families to make money at home while still keeping up with the kids’ home school. Part of the solution also lies in teaching your kids to start their own business and make it part of their everyday school. But that’s another website, and would love to have you stop by HomeSchool-Entrepreneur.com sometime and say ‘hi!’.

More From HomeschoolEntrepreneur

• Business Ideas For Kids
• Video For The Entrepreneur In All Of Us
• Watch Out For Domain Registration Scams-or, A Lesson For Discussion