What kind of homeschool programs, curricula, styles do you use?

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3. This is a very good post.

Much more helpful than mine....

My child's experience was not the norm. He is gifted, and weird, and aspie and he was all those things before we home schooled. He's also generous, polite and kind..... and so many other things. We followed his interests and to him, languages were just great puzzles to be solved.

Online support groups were invaluable in making the decision to home school and in providing resources, experience, perspective and encouragement when those inevitable challenges arose. I didn't mean to make it sound quite so easy, as it wasn't. It was, however, so much better and so much more interesting than what we or he had experienced before. It teaches you so much.