Long term October:

To homeschool or not?

 

The reason we homeschool is because we were not satisfied with the way our children's educations were going.

Going to school 2010!

 

Having moved many times and many more moves pending I could not sit through another parent teacher conference in where the point out the inconsistencies of Summers education. She had by second grade moved in the middle of every school year.

 

We had great schools and great teachers we have even had bad schools and bad teachers. The only constant in the children lives was me.

 

But I had thought about it once before when Summer was in kindergarten.

 

After sitting in a circle of women where I was ridiculed, belittled and degraded (actually I maybe describing this nicely) for even thinking about homeschooling I decided against it.

 

I ran alone (Ryan was gone for 2 months) inside crying where a newly opened box of curriculum was waiting for me, taped it up threw it in the back of a closet and was done.

 

School 2011

 

Fast forward several years, not to toot my own horn but I had matured greatly in those 3 years. Sitting in church one day the pastor was preaching on being scared about what we are called to do. Weather your Christian or not I am sure you can relate to fear controlling your life if you let it.

 

Then the pastor said " Some of you are afraid to....."

 

and he began listing things. I had tears streaming down my face because I do have a personality that can be RULED by fear.

 

Then he said it.............. "homeschool"

 

I have been homeschooling since. At first I did not tell anybody afraid of failing, afraid of being ridiculed but then slowly I began telling my closest friends and family and so on.

 

So for our family the question about homeschooling was from the beginning a big YES it just took me awhile to actually say YES!

 

School 2012