Many of you find your school day schedule continuously interrupted by telephone calls and even unannounced visits from relatives and friends. One mom told me, “My extended family lives nearby, and while they are supportive of my home school, they just don’t get it!

The following article is based on Ginny Seuffert’s column ‘Answering Relatives’. One of the difficulties we home schooling parents, and students, face is remarks by relatives who do not understand ...