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Teens & high school
Independence, transcripts, exams and university routes for home-educated teenagers.
7 pieces on this topic
Homeschool transcripts and university admissions — the whole picture
How to build a transcript universities accept, what counts as a credit, which external evidence actually matters, and the timeline from age 14 to offer.
24 Aug 2026
The life skills curriculum — what to teach before they leave home
An age-banded list of the practical competencies homeschooling teaches unusually well, and how to fit them into an ordinary week without adding a subject.
24 Aug 2026
Teaching science at home — without a lab, a degree, or a boxed kit
What science education is for at each age, how to run real experiments in a kitchen, and how to solve lab sciences for exam-track teenagers.
24 Aug 2026
Teaching writing at home — the sequence nobody explains
Why writing is the subject parents dread most, the four-stage progression from copywork to essay, and what to do about a child who freezes at a blank page.
24 Aug 2026
Homeschool science curriculum — what to use at each age
What science curriculum is genuinely worth buying at each stage, why elementary science needs none at all, and how to solve lab sciences for exam-track teenagers.
24 Aug 2026
Unschooling, truthfully explained — when freedom works and when it doesn't
An honest look at unschooling: what it actually is, where it shines, where it fails, and how families do it without their kids drifting.
14 May 2026
Homeschooling your teenager without losing your mind
What changes at 13 — and what doesn't. A practical guide to the high school years: independence, transcripts, university paths, and the conversations that matter.
12 May 2026
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