r/HomeschoolResources

hello just looking for some broad advice, my husband is in the CG, has been for 6 years he is looking to make it a career. We got a one year old and are planning on having a few more. I’m just concerned with all the moving around we will be doing about the quality of education she will be receiving. It’s not really in budget to do private school for 12 years for multiple kids. So we have been toying with the idea of home school but weren’t sure. We are Catholic and I have heard some good things about Kolbe academy onlime so maybe that. Just looking for some advice on how people liked the base schools vs home schooling and just generally what worked best for them. thanks! God bless!

I prefer something secular or at least that doesn't teach a young earth model. The problem I'm having while looking online is so much of the curriculum doesn't give you a "sneak peek" ie there's no way for me to see exactly what the lessons, etc will look like to know if it will be a good fit for my child. TIA

I'm working on an app to interactively teach maths for kids from kindergarten to grade 1-2. I started building this app mainly because I couldn't find anything that's more about teaching math than about being a game. I'll be releasing it soon. Meanwhile, I've put together some worksheets in hippokids.app Please check it out.

My kids are 5 and 6. People assume you need to be older to meaningfully use AI tools. I've found the opposite is true.

Young kids have no learned helplessness around technology. They don't announce they're not tech people. They just try things and see what happens. That's actually a massive advantage.

A few things that have genuinely worked at these ages.

Concrete tasks beat abstract explanations every time. Tell the AI to describe what your pet looks like so well that someone who's never met them could draw a perfect picture. My daughter immediately understood why vague instructions produce bad results when she saw the difference herself. No explanation needed. She just saw it happen.

Make the output mean something in real life. My son used AI to help design a simple game and we played it that same evening. Suddenly AI wasn't a screen thing. It was something that made a real thing happen. That matters to a 5 year old.

Show them where it's wrong on purpose. This is the one I feel strongest about. Young kids take what authority figures say at face value. Teaching them to question AI output, to check it, to push back on it, that's a habit of mind that will matter their whole lives. We've made catching AI mistakes into a game.

I ended up building a structured set of AI missions around this because I couldn't find anything designed for genuinely young kids. It's called Prompt Bot Learning. Happy to answer questions about what's worked at these ages.

Hey everyone. I don't usually post about what we're building, but this is a resource sub and part of what I want to share is genuinely free, so I think it belongs here.

The thing we kept hearing and experiencing ourselves, especially from moms doing most of the teaching: the curriculum you can buy is generic. It's written for some average kid who doesn't actually exist, and it won't bend for the real kid sitting at your table. So you end up becoming the teacher for every single subject, the expert on phonics and fractions and whatever your 7th grader needs next. That is exhausting, and it's how kids quietly fall behind before anyone catches it.

We built AI Home Academy around exactly that problem. A few pieces that might help this community:

• A free virtual library with over 120 fully illustrated and narrated books. No account games, no catch, use it whether or not you ever pay us a cent. Sharing it here because this is the right place for it. Custom book generation is available for all subscription tiers.
• A one-on-one AI teacher that does the actual teaching with your kid and adapts to them, so you stop having to be the expert in everything. You get to be the parent again instead of the lecturer. You can even ask the teacher about your child's progress outside of lessons.
• Detailed insights into your child's learning with actual data such as what kinds of questions they excel at, where they are struggling vs succeeding, and so much more. We believe that the right data empowers parents to make informed decisions and took this into consideration from day one.
• Gap analysis (we call it the Study Corner) that checks where your child is actually behind and fills those gaps on its own, so a small crack in fractions doesn't turn into a year of struggling later. The whole point is no kid quietly falling behind.
• Custom course builder with built in optional templates that designs courses of any size and length for any subject imaginable. Whether you need a full year of 7th grade English or a just for fun language class that lasts a couple months, you have total control over your child's learning!

Screenshot of actual lesson in progress

It bends to the real kids too: the one with ADHD (we originally built this for our own kids, one of which struggles with ADHD), the one who's bored because they're already ahead, the one who burned out in regular school. It meets your kid where they are instead of handing you a one-size box.

It doesn't replace you. It takes the "be the expert in everything" weight off so homeschooling actually feels doable again.

You can find out more here: https://aihomeacademy.com

Happy to answer anything below!

Hi guys!! For any middle schoolers out there interested in doing research, this is a great opportunity. It's a two-week online program called the Papers 2026 Summer Program where students actually learn how research works and do a small project of their own by the end.

A few things that stood out:

• Completely free and fully virtual, so location doesn't matter (open internationally)
• Just one hour a day for two weeks, so it's not a huge time commitment over the summer
• Three tracks to pick from: humanities/social science, life & physical sciences, and computer science & AI (seems pretty cool -- wish I could explore stuff like this in middle school)
• There's a Harvard researcher guest speaker, mentors from Phillips Academy Andover, and ISEF (big international science fair) participants involved, so it's not just some random thing

It's run by Papers, a student-led org focused on making research more accessible to students. Deadline to apply is July 3 and application form is here: https://forms.gle/hg9oSpnHZvMxmomr9

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