I home school my 9 yr old son and run my day home. I absolutely love it and so does my son. We use a fully aligned program however which is very self guiding. My son has also become very self guiding on his own since we started. We do his science projects during rest time so as not to be interrupted with that and we have a couple other quiet rooms if he needs it. He only has to dedicate about three hours of work a day to school work as there aren't the regular distractions and challenges there are in a classroom.