Hi! My name is Tina, and I am the webmama of The Homeschool Realm. I am a homeschooling mom of 2, living in the Central Valley of California.

Our Family…Mommy (Tina), Daddy (Adam), Maeven (11/00) and Tyren (TEERen 7/05). We’ve been homeschooling since 2006, when Maeven was finally kindergarten age. (I’d been planning to homeschool since before she was conceived!!) Despite my planning this for so long, we’ve yet to find our real “groove” …but we are continuing to try new things and I’m confident we will eventually find something that really works for us.

Currently, we are “eclectic homeschoolers.” I tend to pick and choose different styles and techniques…We’ve tried Enki, but didn’t have much of that work for us. (I still think its a fabulous curriculum…just not for me…required FAR too much learning on my part…I needed something much simpler.) I’ve learned a lot about Waldorf education and have pulled some from there, (Waldorf is also an integral part of Enki.) We are sorta unschoolers…though not at all in the radical sense. We are dabbling in a secular version of Charlotte Mason…but I am finding tidal homeschooling to be intriguing and might be more along the lines of what’s reality here. I also like Montessori, although all I’m using so far that is Montessori is our math curriculum. I also like a little of the Classical Education way of doing things (though only some…there’s a lot about it also don’t like.) and so we use a classical history curriculum.

So…as I said…eclectic!

I created The Homeschool Realm to be a place where I can archive info that I am finding all over the internet on the subject of homeschooling and related topics, and to share this info with other homeschooling families.

To be honest, I’m also creating this site to help generate some much needed side income for our family. I’m sure we can all relate to needing more income.

I am constantly learning new things about homeschooling and how to homeschool my children and interesting info on every topic that interests me…So it just makes sense to put this info out there for others to be able to benefit from.

I hope you enjoy my site and feel free to contact me at webmama_tina(at)mommychats(dot)com at any time and share info that you think would be good for this site!