What kind of homeschooler are you? Why do you home school? There are probably as many answers to those two questions as there are homeschoolers. The vision many people have of home schoolers is of devoutly religious families with many children gathered around the kitchen table, learning from text books, in a very traditional schooling manner. While that is not an inaccurate picture, it is, perhaps, an incomplete picture. My family might be as close to the other end of the spectrum from the above picture as you can get. We do not home school for religious reasons, so we fall into the realm of secular homeschooling . The reasons we home school and the style we use go hand in hand. I want my only child to have the most tailored and individualized education she can get. Our core curriculum is Time4Learning, but we pull from many resources to round out her education. This individualized approach is sometimes call ecclectic home schooling. Other home education methods include unschooling, classical, and Charlotte Mason, but when all is said and done, homeschoolers are more alike than we are different. We all want the very best that we can offer in education, and we are committed to personal involvement in that education. As homeschoolers, no matter our style or our reasons, we should recognize our differences, and celebrate our similarities. Happy home schooling.