There are over twenty thousand families in the UK whose children are home educated, and at least a million in the USA.
One family can only provide one perspective on home education. Every child is unique, every parent has a different background, and each situation provides different opportunities for learning. There are thousands of homeschooling web sites based in the USA, and a few elsewhere in the world. I have selected some which had family appeal and other interest rather than being just a list of links to resources.
So have a look at some of the following sites, which introduce other home educating families and their own unique perspectives on home education - as well as a wide variety of other interests.
The Haylett Virtual Residence: A Christian family site, full of useful information about home education in the UK, with several articles about Christian issues related to relationships, families and education.
The Gibson clan - a Christian family home educating their young children.
Wendy-Jayne's site - site about a single parent home educating her daughter, with photos and information about German Spitz dogs. The daughter is now at college but the site is still active.
Homeschooling a pre-teen daughter - site with a detailed journal about one family's experiences as they entered the home education world towards the end of 2001. Very interesting reading and some good photographs.
Yobunny - another family's experience of home education, and why they started, along with environmental links, and information about canals and canal art.
Little Bears Home Education site : A Christian family site with details of various curricula and home education methods, including planned suggestions for structuring a week for younger children.
Brights of Beckton - another Christian family site, with details of how they dealt with teenage qualifications (see the page labelled 'school' for the home education information), and an interesting page about family board games.
Dawn's Cornucopea : site by a family who are home educating in the USA. Contains some interesting sections about penguins, and a lot of information about Geocities, as well as an American perspective on homeschooling.
General information sites, such as those for UK home ed organisations, are included on the general home education links page, and sites which have an ongoing journal of day-to-day activities are on the home educators' blogs page.
If you'd like to read sites by home educated students themselves, there are a few listed on my home educating teenagers' sites page.