Jeffrey L. Kuhlman - Create a Great Homeschool Experience: Learn to teach in your home for your childs success

Books are seldom written in a vacuum. The writing requires moral and practical support as well as sharing the experiences expressed in the text. There are many people who have provided this support, but two deserve special thanks. They are my wife, Glenna, and my grandson, Scott, without whom I could not have written this book.

I thank my wife, my colleague and dedicated proofreader of the reams of paper I generate, for the support she has provided me, even when she was tired, bored, ill, or healthy. She was always dependably there in her support of my efforts. She has been a Presidential Award-winning educator for Excellence in Teaching Elementary Mathematics in the State of New Jersey. She is listed in the Whos Who of American Teachers, but her background provides so much more in courage, care, and love. An educator, private pilot, a test pilot for the paraplane, commercial mariner after retiring from the classroom, deacon and elder of our church, occasional missionary, and successful hunter of meat for African farm workers, she has become a model for so many including me.

I also thank our grandson, Scott Tirpok, without whom we would not have had the shared experience in homeschooling necessary for this book. Scott spent his ninth-grade school year homeschooling with Glenna and me on our forty-five-foot ketch as we sailed from New England to Florida with a trip to Port Lucaya in The Bahamas. He was often a difficult student. When he arrived on board, he had been a teenager without boundaries, trapped in a maelstrom of well-intended special-education student programs.

A year later, he found himself back home, again attending his homeschool, but now an honor-roll student who had accepted good boundaries and established a mature work ethic. Now, many years later, he has met his personal goal of becoming a professional power company lineman, today working to restore power in Puerto Rico following this years hurricanes. He has planned well for his future. He is a true success story, mature, and happy. Congratulations, Grandson!