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This website is hosted by the Kinmont family for the purpose of promoting home schooling in Utah. We believe that many families would chose home schooling if they only knew more about it and could have the questions answered and their fear allayed. Although we are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we intend this website to be of help to all Utah citizens. Our family consists of Dad Dick and Mom Joyce and our wonderful children and grandchildren. Dick is a videographer whose electronic talents are foundational to the many projects we undertake in behalf of home schooling. Joyce -- that's me -- has done most of the homeschooling since we began in 1974, although Dick taught our two boys household carpentry, plumbing, and electronics and several of our daughters to run a video camera and to edit. Our children are all adults now, so we're helping with our grandchildren. Our best home school routine was to schedule a couple hours in the morning, turn on the answering machine, and study together. We read together a lot and came to appreciate the scriptures and the classics. We worked out punctuation and spelling on a white board, counted beads and opened checking accounts for math, planted a garden for science, made frequent trips to the hardware store for the boys and the craft store for the girls, and occasionally searched out good teachers or mentors for particular subjects. Or biggest -- and most worthwhile -- curriculum expenses were for a piano and for Legos™. The most important accomplishment of our home school is that our children learned to take responsibility for their own learning, which has made them all successful, responsible adults. We are pleased that our five married children all have children of their own and that all five mothers are at home with those children. Three of our daughters still bless our lives at home and are co-sponsors of this website. Becky, who set up this site, is now serving an LDS mission in Minnesota, Spanish speaking. Millie takes care of our small bookstore, and Krystal does creative things for us on the computer. Millie is a great vegetarian cook and is working on a cooking video which Krystal will film and edit. Our seventeen grandchildren are being taught in public and private school, and at home. Naturally we hope someday they will all be at home, as we hope all of yours will be. Home is the safest place for children to be raised and has always been the cradle of eminence. We hope you'll find the answers to your questions on this website and we wish your family a happy homeschool journey.
We also
host a homeschool website particularly for members of the LDS Church:
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