Welcome to Wild and Free Homeschooling

My name is Holly. I’m a homeschooling mom of 5 sons, ranging in age from 14 to 4. We live in West Virginia. We began homeschooling last year with my then 2nd grader and kindergartener. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy homeschooling as much as I did, but over the past year I have become fairly passionate about it. We started homeschooling because the public school system was not working for my son. I tried my best to work with the system but to no avail. Homeschooling was my last resort. I have since come to believe that homeschooling is not only a better option for many families than our modern educational system, but it is a healthy, efficient, productive, nurturing way for children to learn. In this blog I’ll be discussing our reasons for moving away from institutional education and documenting our struggles and successes. We are still figuring things out as we go along, as so many of us do as we move through life. Nothing in this blog is meant to be an indictment of the way anyone else chooses to live their life or parent their children. This is what is working for my family. I hope that our story and testament can serve as an example of how homeschooling can work in practice. The homeschooling movement is growing. We are neither revolutionaries, religious fanatics or rebels. We are just working to do what is best for our children one day at a time. Welcome to Wild and Free Homeschooling.


Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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