Large Families

Homeschooling in a large family is both a joy and a challenge. Learn how to manage those challenges, while meeting the needs of everyone in the family. Here you’ll find information on keeping your home running smoothly, tending to toddlers while homeschooling, teaching many different grade levels at once, and avoid burnout.

Large Families Forum at Just Mommies

This forum is for families with four or more kids.

How I Teach a Large Family in a Relaxed, Classical Way: Science

Family style learning is a great way to tackle lots of different subjects, including science.

Homeschooling a Large Family: What I've Learned About Myself

Homeschooling can reveal many things. This article shares some insight into the thoughts of a homeschooling mom.

Multi-age Homeschool: Older Teaches Younger

In a large family, it is inevitable that the older children will help guide the younger ones. Here are ideas on how to capitalize on that system.

Little Earthling Blog

This beautiful family has grown through adoption and birth. With fourteen children, they homeschool and share their adventures on their blog.

My Blessed Home

This blog shares homeschooling help and encouragement, parenting tips and insights, organizational tips, and more, all while chronicling the joys and challenges of raising a large family.

How I Teach a Large Family in a Relaxed, Classical Way: Language Arts

Tips for teaching language arts (writing, grammar, handwriting) in a large family.

Homeschooling: How We Do It

This article details how Bob and Erika Shupe homeschool their nine children successfully.

Planning a Homeschool Routine When You Are Homeschooling Multiple Children

How do you structure a homeschool day with four children? Do you teach each subject separately with each child? If not, what do you do together? This mom shares her strategies as she shows a day in her life.

Lots of Kids

A place where families with four or more children can find friendship, fun, and support.

Ten Tips from Homeschooling Moms of Four or More

Parents of several children engage in some seriously creative thinking to accomplish ordinary day to day tasks. This article is a collection of tips, gathered from ‘Moms of Many’, and is intended to supply helpful suggestions for homeschooling, maintaining your home, and generally keeping it all in balance.

Large Family Workbox System for Homeschool

An example of an organizational system for a large homeschool family.

How I Home-School my 3 Children in 3 Different Grades

These tips and tricks will help you get individual time with each of your kids while everyone is engaged in learning.

Large Family Moms

This list is for moms only that are part of a large family consisting of four or more children. Large families are wonderful, exciting, and very challenging. Here you will find time and money saving tips, advice and support.

Large Family Homeschool Lesson Planning

Lesson planning for a larger than average size family can be a bit tricky. This sample planning sheet offers an easy approach to planning out schooling for a large family.

I Am Not Getting It All Done: Homeschooling multiple children and multiple subjects

We have to cover subjects that go from reading and writing to foreign language, math, science, history and then to music, art and computer. For those of us with several children, it can be even more challenging, trying to meet all the instructional needs of each grade level every day.

Homeschooling a Large Family: Keeping Sane, Simple, and Scholarly in the Stresses of Life with a Handful

This is an audio recording of a presentation by Amy Beckstead Leonard. Amy gives strategies and ideas for large families that are homeschooling.

There's No Place Like Home: Homeschooling my large, crazy family

Shelly is the mom of eleven children and is homeschooling. Share in her journey.

How to Homeschool During the Post Partum Period

If you are going to be a homeschooler and continue to grow your class size, then you need to be prepared and you need to be flexible. Adding a new family member during the school year can be a smooth transition. Explore these ideas and tips to help during this time.