Technology isn’t going away. While you want your children to be safe online, you also want them to appreciate what a powerful tool for learning the internet is. Homeschool is the ideal setting to teach your child to use their phone, tablet, and computer safely and to their greatest benefit. Most available homeschool resources (many free) can save you significant amounts of time, money and stress. Often parents worry that their child will become too involved in the virtual world and neglect playing and participating in the real world. It’s up to you to determine what the right amount of screen time is given your child’s personality. Some kids do need strict guidelines while others can self-moderate with few rules.

Now if you are sitting there muttering to yourself, “Great, I just learned how to get to the voice mail on my phone,” don’t panic. There are plenty of generous, geeky folk out there who go to great lengths to teach the rest of us how to navigate the 21^st century! Their contributions to the network of homeschool resources is priceless. Stop here. Read no further unless you are prepared to spend hours reading and learning and shouting “Who knew?????” at your screen. Seriously. At least go get a snack before you read further.