The primary purpose of HomeschoolingConnecting.com is to bring homeschoolers together via it's CONNECT! online community. This includes both parents and their children.

In essence ... an online community is a gathering of people who are reaching out through their computers to communicate with others who have similar needs and interests.

Homeschooling children can sometimes be an overwhelming and isolating experience. Support groups are helpful but aren't always easy to access, particularly if you live in a rural area or have a busy schedule (homeschoolers busy? Yeah right! ha ha) that doesn't permit you to attend regularly. Increasingly, parents are going online and joining Internet-based communities that focus on parenting and educating children.

What are some benefits of HomeschoolersConnecting.com?

• Membership is Free and there is no advertising within CONNECT! unlike the free solutions from Google, Yahoo and others. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain and your identity is protected. You don't even have to make your email address public. CONNECT! has a Private Messaging feature that you can use to communicate with other HomeschoolersConnecting.com members.
  
  
• Private Messaging is a means for community members to talk to each other outside the realm of the public community. Members never have to know each other's email, so this is a more secure way of having a private conversation within a community. Multiple members can participate in a private message. There is NO spam at all so your children can safely use private messaging to communicate with one another without the risk of viewing offensive spam. The outside world cannot access our private messaging. A BIG benefit indeed!
  
  
• Connecting with others who share common experiences can be a huge relief from isolation. Sometimes, homeschooling can make you feel as though no one in your family, neighborhood, or town really understands your situation. Finding support online gives you the power to reach beyond your immediate borders, into other cities, states, and even countries to make connections with families whose homeschooling challenges are similar to your own.
  
  
• HomeschoolersConnecting.com can connect you with experienced homeschoolers that have learned many tips, tricks and techniques through years of experience homeschooling their children.
  
  
• HomeschoolersConnecting.com offers flexibility in the time, location, and pace that you participate. HomeschoolersConnecting.com is available to you 24 hours a day, using any computer that has access to the World Wide Web or to an email program, so you can “drop in” when you have the time and opportunity. You can read at your own pace, think about how you want to respond, or even do a little research before you write a response.
  
  
• HomeschoolersConnecting.com provides members with a place to share their passion for homeschooling.
  
  
• HomeschoolersConnecting.com satisfies a need to share as well as provide friendship and support of peers.
  
  
• A resource for research and planning.
  
  
• HomeschoolersConnecting.com offers a vast database of knowledge and experience through the participation of it's members. Who better to look to for advice and ideas than other people who’ve been there and done that already? CONNECT! has excellent search tools to enable you to find specific topics and content. Over time the CONNECT! database of postings will grow offering tremendous value to it's members.
  
  
• The ability to evaluate products. People put more value in the opinions of others with similar interests than they do in commercial product descriptions. Web users are twice as likely to favor a friend or person with similar interests over brand descriptions. Choosing the correct curriculum is extremely important and it's very costly and disruptive to switch to something else once you've started.
  
  
• Ideas and inspiration. CONNECT! visitors come in search of ideas. Where to go? What to do? What else to do? The aggregated opinions of an online community are an excellent source of inspiration.homeschool software education school curriculum, home-school, homeschooling, homeschool support, christian

Questions? Email us or post your questions in CONNECT! in Miscellaneous >> Support.