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Comparing Homeschooling to Public Education

The primary similarity regarding the homeschooling concept is that this is a legal way of educating children in all 50 states. However, that is where any similarities end as the laws and regulations of this educational concept will vary from one state to another. In addition to this, the interpretation of these laws and regulations differ from one school district to the next. Another element is that these different laws and regulations oftentimes change every year so it is always wise to find out about this before educating your child this way.

As a suggestion, you should consider contacting the National Home Education Network to find out about homeschooling your child in your state of residency. This is one of the best resources to rely on where finding information regarding the laws and regulations of your state’s homeschooling activities. It lists each one of the 50 state’s laws that you can read about. However, it is best to contact an experienced attorney to accurately interpret them before making assumptions on your own.

The support groups of the National Home Education Network are also an excellent source of valuable information. You can search online for state Department of Education resources as well. They can help you with interpreting the laws and regulations of your state as well as the requirements involved for homeschooling your children. The main benefit of finding out as much information as you can is that this will help you avoid any negative surprises along the way. This is also beneficial if you relocated during the time that you are homeschooling.

Public school disadvantages

As parents, most of us are extremely trusting of the public education system in our home states, maybe a bit too trusting. We make the assumption that our children will receive a good education when we enroll them in public schools and are satisfied with this. However, you have to question whether or not you are actually getting a good value for the money you invest in this type of education. Additionally, you have to question whether or not your child is benefiting from public education.

Supposedly, one of public education’s greatest benefits is socialization. In other words, it is hailed as the method wherein a child attains the rudimentary skills necessary to their survival. Unfortunately, this is a misconception of sorts in that the child is only able to interact with their peers, and that interaction oftentimes leads to negative consequences. There is no benefit if they bully younger children or fear older ones. Nor is there a benefit that they may not know how to behave around other adults.

In closing, just remember when it comes to public education, that environment only allows peer interaction at specific times during the school day. Conversely, a homeschooling type of environment enables them to learn in a social environment that is more natural to them. So ask yourself what is best for your child – homeschooling or public education?

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How to Make Money From Home With an Affiliate Marketing Home Based Business

Have you ever dreamed of being financially independent? Free of the 9 to 5 job and the boss who is only looking for the bottom line?If you answered yes, you are not alone. Many of us dream to be free to be on our own and set our own hours. We would like to be free of the demands our jobs place on us and of the feeling of being ineffective at making the money we deserve.You, probably, long to be able to take vacations whenever you wish and to work the hours you would like so that you can spend more time with your family and on yourself for your hobbies. Like many of us you see this as something that is out of your reach and is only a pipe dream.Why is that so? It is likely that you like many people, fear losing the stability and security of your job, even though you know that this is not true at any time. You also feel you do not have the money or the time to really give to start a business of your own. Additionally, there are the opinions of your family and friends that you will only fail if you begin your own business and you, like many others, do not want to fail, especially if you invested your time and money.You would like to have the following question answered:How can you make money from home?The answer to this question is to start an affiliate marketing home based business. You will be surprised to know how easy it is to start your own affiliate marketing business without any money and without spending too much of your time doing it.Why should you consider affiliate marketing for your home based business?Consider the following advantages of affiliate marketing:

Requires little or no cash to start
Require little space to do your work. If you have desk, with some clear space, then you are able to do affiliate marketing.
It provides you with the opportunity to promote a product or a service.
Once you have succeeded with a campaign with a good product or service, you can repeat the process with another product or service.
What does it take to start an affiliate marketing home based business?You will need the following to start an affiliate marketing home based business:

A computer of your own or access to a computer.
A reliable connection to the Internet for the computer you use.
A little space for you and the computer.
A phone line, which you probably already have. If you do not have a phone line you would like to use for the business, you can go to Google Voice and sign up for an invitation to Google Voice where you can have a dedicated phone line that you can have redirected to any phone by setting it to do so with your Google Voice account.
Time to do the work necessary for the business, which is not a lot once you get going.
The final thing you need is the patience to learn how to market. There a lot of resources on the Internet which can help you out as well as some books you can get at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
When you decide to begin your affiliate marketing business, you can do the following methods in your campaign:

Design a mini website which promotes the single product with a sales page.
Design a Squeeze page. The Squeeze page is a much targeted sales letter designed to get an action, which is usually for building a list to which you can market more affiliate products or services in the future.
Design a Presell page. The Presell page is a like the mini website except that it appeals to people directly with a story that is more personal than what is used for a sales letter.
Each of these can be marketed in the following ways:

Listing the site with Yahoo! Publisher Network or Google AdSense network with Pay Per Click ads to get traffic.
Sending email marketing to your email list you
Writing articles for article directories related to the content on the website
Writing articles which are related to the content on the website
Writing posts to forums with links to your website.
The number of ways you can do your affiliate marketing campaigns are endless and limited only by your imagination.You do not need much money or very much time to start your affiliate marketing home based business to make money from home. This business can be done while you are still working and can generate extra income at first. The one thing that an affiliate marketing home based business can do for you is to get you believing that you can have your dream of being financially independent and all of the advantages that accompany it.Isn’t that what you want? Your dreams coming true. Start marketing now and get clicking.

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Home Based Business Within The Personal Development Industry

Personal development is most likely an unfamiliar concept to many home based business owners, at least in the context of having a measurable impact on the success of their business. Most people have heard about the power of positive thinking but may not have done much more than some recreational reading on the subject.Now with the expansion of personal development training being provided from a home based business owner, the personal development industry is making giant strides. The current economic environment seems to motivate many home based business owners to more toward so called out-of-the-box approaches to building their business. And as the saying goes, “timing is everything.” And it is no surprise in this day of the increasingly popular reality TV shows and gossipy magazine shows that the public is looking for more positive options for their stress filled lifestyles.It just makes sense that a home business owner would be drawn to the slowly spreading phenomenon that is creating a buzz in this industry. The growth of home based business models based on law of attraction strategies is a widely spreading event in many areas of the country. Traditional businesses as well as home based businesses are adopting business models built around the personal development industry.For many entrepreneurs it usually begins with reading a book on the subject of self help while others were drawn to the business after seeing the big screen hit movie, “The Secret.” Thousands of new millionaires are reportedly the result of the explosion in the home based business niche related to personal development and law of attraction strategies. The evolution of the industry has helped small home based business owners to think past old mental tapes that don’t paint a true picture about positive thinking. Once even a small breakthrough occurs, personal development gains an entirely new perspective.After all, prior to adopting personal development industry strategies, if your business is slowing down instead of gaining new ground in the marketplace, the owner would usually revert to unproductive but traditional methods in an attempt to build new life into flagging sales. Now, with these self help strategies blended with law of attraction techniques home based businesses are experiencing a new way of jump-starting the momentum of success.Most entrepreneurs are beginning to hear more about law of attraction in tandem with personal development strategies and are applying them to their business building approaches. Of primary importance is that personal development is a necessary part of a home based business owner’s tool kit for success. Most often a business owner will attend workshops and seminars in order to keep up with new advances in his or her field. More and more of these training events are providing books and videos as a supplement to the training that participants can use to continue the learning process.All in all it is part of the home based business owner’s commitment to success to be able to take advantage of leading edge self help strategies. The law of attraction and other self development techniques are part of the package. The application of specific law of attraction strategies is being documented as producing a positive and measurable impact on the growth of businesses of all sizes.One important point that has been observed, especially in regard to the performance of businesses that do not have owners who are committed to personal development, is a higher failure rate.Many large corporations are implementing self development programs in their production based departments and recording remarkable results. The impact is being observed in performance as well as improvement in employee morale.Success for the home based business owner is not the easiest of tasks which makes a solid personal development program a valuable business support tool. Many individuals who have worked with a proven personal development plan find that when their progress with their personal program begins to strengthen their faith in their own abilities, their personal life, and their home based business become more successful.News is spreading about small business successes and the public is learning these small businesses are the foundation of employment growth that is beginning to move forward.