In a natural community children spend their daily lives with old people, babies, and everyone in between. They do not compete, but learn to search out the needs of others and to help them live and learn. This mixed age group and habit of teaching and helping others, and being helped and taught by people younger or older than oneself, is a part of Montessori classes at all ages and is easy to fit into the Montessori homeschooling plan. The child is learning all of the time, from the environment and from the adults in the environment. It is better to put energy into enriching the environment and becoming good models than in teaching the child.
Children learn what they love.
Anything forced will probably be detested, or forgotten. A child must know why he has to learn a required subject. This work usually takes no more than two or three hours a day. Aside from requirements, if the child's choice are respected and facilitated she will learn at a level that can amaze parents. Although we will not be able to respond personally to each question, those asked most frequently will be answered at this web site.