Noting that most home-schooling materials adhere to conventional schooling at the cost of creativity, this handbook provides guidelines for building a successful home school curriculum, one that avoids student resentment and parent burnout, targets children's interest and motivation, and understands how a child's developmental stages contribute to learning. The guide is based on the Moore Formula for home schooling, which emphasizes a creative curriculum, skill-building work, and community or family service, and which results in low stress, low cost, and high achievement and sociability. The chapters in the book are divided into the following five parts: (1) "Can Homeschooling Be Both Successful and Stress-Free?"; (2) "Homeschooling Stress: Prevention and Remedy"; (3) "Making Homeschooling Successful"; (4) "Effective Homeschoolers Share Their Wisdom"; and (5) "Some Encouraging Information for Parents and Educators." A concise description of the Moore Formula for home schooling is presented in an epilogue. (SW)