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.

Large Families Forum at BabyCenter

Do you come from a large family? Are you planning one? Share the challenges and joys a big family can bring.

Married (with a lot) of Children

Large families are often drawn to homeschooling, due to societal pressures or the inability to pay for private Catholic school for a large brood. This article details some of the real challenges that a large family can face in the world.

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.

Homeschooling with a Large Family

This podcast features Amy of Raising Arrows who currently has seven children on earth and one in Heaven. She shares ideas and encouragement for anyone who is homeschooling more than four children.

Catholic Homeschooling Multiple Ages in a Large & Busy Family

It's daunting to think about schooling many children, all different age ranges, in a busy house. These tips and tricks can give you smooth sailing days when homeschooling a large family.

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

A look at teaching history across several grades using the classical method of education and a rotation of history every four years.

Tons of Kids

This mailing list is set up for parents of large families. Large for this list is defined as having five or more kids. They welcome everybody who has at least that many of any religion, or even no religion.

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

Ideas for incorporating fine art education into a large homeschool family curriculum.

Homeschooling the Large Family

Sometimes, raising and homeschooling 8 kids (ages 21 to 2) seems totally manageable--even easy--especially when compared to other, larger families made up primarily of younger kids. At other times, homeschooling our brood proves to be the hardest thing ever.

Get Along Home

This blog follows Cindy and her family as she talks about homeschooling, large families, and parenting.

Our Full House

Carrie shares life with her 14 blessings, offering a glimpse into the daily life of their family.

One Thankful Mom

This mom of 12 children shares her challenges and blessings at this blog. She shares about adoption, attachment, Sensory Processing Disorder, homeschooling, marriage, life with a large family, and more.

Large families are amazing, and I have one

This Facebook page is a big support group of large family supporters who talk on a regular basis.

Large family finds a way to homeschool

This youtube video gives a look into a large successful homeschooling family. This African-American family of seven children has had all children go to college, starting while still in high school.

Large Family Logistics

This group offers a discussion of Kim Brenneman's book Large Family Logistics.

Magnum Opus

Raising a large, Catholic, homeschooling family is a great work (Magnum Opus) and a great deal of work! Hopefully this email discussion group will be a place for parents of four or more to help each other with the nitty-gritty details of raising and educating a large, Catholic family.