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Find out WHY these homeschoolers choose Sonlight to help their kids love to learn...

Sonlight Curriculum is not for everyone. You might want to consider the reasons Sonlight may NOT be a good fit for you.

Research correlates success with clearly defined goals. As you consider homeschooling, you should take the time to record, and write down any educational goals that you think would be important to you. Sonlight has many goals. We laid out ten of them to help you see where we are coming from, and perhaps provide a base for you to do the same.

Over the years we've had a special desire to help customers on tight budgets. One way we do this is by listing in our catalog all the homeschool books we include in our programs, so you can avoid buying duplicate titles from us if you already own them. We've heard thanks from many for such helpful information. But we've also found it has actually encouraged a number of people to buy elsewhere.

Read a PDF article about Sonlight from the Denver Business Journal. (4.3 MB)

Sonlight Curriculum attempts to avoid books that include unnecessarily scary, boring, or offensive passages. We know, however, that different readers have different tolerance levels and expectations. So what is intellectually challenging to one may be highly offensive to another....

As you browse the many Core programs available for you and your children, you might wonder why a particular Core spans several age groups or grade levels. Why doesn't Sonlight just offer one Core per level or age and be done with it? Wouldn't that make things easier for everyone? Find out how to customize your core, and get the most out of your Sonlight.

You have a vision for the kind of people you want your children to become...but then life happens. How do you successfully instill character in your children as a natural part of your life?

Tackle the job of teaching multiple kids all at the same time.

Discover why you may find conflicts among different history texts and what you can do about them.

Many parents wonder how to motivate their children to write their best. As you might imagine, there are several different schools of thought on how to do this.

In this article, Sarita Holzmann compares recent trends in the homeschool movement with the progression of the women's missionary movement from the 1860s to 1930s. If we are not careful, she suggests, homeschooling in America may follow the same path as that movement.