All Posts By Rachel Garlinghouse

Rachel Garlinghouse is the author of four books including the newly released <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Homeschooling-Your-Young-Black-Child/dp/1514658356">Homeschooling Your Young Black Child: A Getting-Started Guide and Workbook. Her adoption education and experiences have been featured on NPR, MSNBC, Huffington Post, abcnews.com, Yahoo, Huffington Post Live, Scary Mommy, Babble, and many other places. Rachel and her family live in St. Louis. Learn more about adoption, homeschooling, and her family’s adventures at <a href="http://www.whitesugarbrownsugar.com">White Sugar, Brown Sugar.

Five Reasons Kids Who Were Adopted May Benefit from Homeschooling

I used to be one of the moms who claimed I would never homeschool. I only knew a few homeschooled kids growing up and they were socially awkward, never fitting in with the rest of us. I didn’t want my children to feel excluded, nor did I wish for them to be labeled or stereotyped…

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