Love the suggestions and this is an ongoing discussion at our house as well - we have homeschooled 2 years with 2 attempts at public schooling...I agree with everyone's posts - our biggest issue was - was he happy and - and was he challenged enough. We were worried that things were so easy for him because they did zero differentiation and we were worried that when things finally would get challenging, he wouldn't know how to handle it. We also saw a very unhappy little boy who complained about sitting around all day "learning nothing new".