I want an ultimate Home school thread too!
I would definitely second the recommendation of Creative Home Schooling by Lisa Rivero. I found the review of the pros and cons of all the different home school methods really useful. I also found the general chapters about home education, and giftedness useful.
I really want to like the classical method, I really do, but I just can't!
Anyway, what I found the most useful when I was starting out was just to talk to as many home educators as possible about what they were doing and why and how, and it all just seemed so normal, that it stopped seeming so scary. BUT, just as a warning, some home school groups are a bit anti-gifted, so I would use the g word with caution.
I have found that there were lots of advantages to home education that were not apparent at the beginning. You may find you like it more than you thought!
