The Home-Schooling Bridge: A 90-Day Transition Guide

✅ The #1 reason new homeschoolers quit in month one — and how to avoid it. Research from NHERI shows 87% of peer-reviewed studies find homeschooled children perform better socially and emotionally than their public school peers. But those results require a proper transition. This guide gives you the exact 3-phase 90-day roadmap — Decompress, Discover, Design — so your child heals from school first and your homeschool starts from strength, not panic.

✅ Everything you need before, during, and after you withdraw — in one place. State-by-state legal checklist covering all 50 states in three regulation tiers. Exact withdrawal letter guidance to prevent truancy claims. School record collection steps. Five homeschool philosophies (Classical, Charlotte Mason, Eclectic, Unschooling, Online) compared side-by-side so you choose the right model for your child — not the one you Googled at midnight in a panic.

✅ The observation tools that turn your child's interests into their curriculum. Instead of buying an expensive boxed curriculum on day one and watching your child resist it, Phase 2 gives you a weekly observation journal to identify your child's learning style, sustained interests, and natural strengths. By day 60 you know exactly which curriculum to choose — and why. Free blog posts say "follow their interests." This guide shows you how.