Joining the ranks as a homeschooling mom

**freebs** · 08-09-2010, 10:37 AM

We are also homeschooling this year. We are using connections academy. Kids are excited.

**ediesbeads** · 04-12-2011, 10:18 AM

Congrats on your decision! We've been homeschooling for four years now and will never go back. We love it! My kids are much happier, well rested, and relaxed than when they were in school. Good luck to you!

Edie

**peanut** · 05-23-2011, 12:30 PM

I just want to weigh in and say 'good on you' for having the guts to take them out and homeschool them.

I too, had two girls. One was being bullied and ostracized because of her advanced vocabulary. The other had health issues that would have placed her in a special ed class that would not have stretched her intellectually. We pulled them out and homeschooled 12 years. Yes, from grade 1 - 12 for my baby, and grades 4 to 12 for my oldest. Though she says grade 4 to first year university!

My girls have both stopped mid-university career due to the cost of university these days. We are not fixated on university being the be all and end all of an education. One child wants to be a writer. She is a writer. She's always been a writer...since she learned to read at 9 years old. Or since she admitted to being able to read maybe!

Turns out she was afraid if she let on she could read that I wouldn't cuddle with her anymore and read to her.

Poor little tyke. No such luck! This Mommy reads whenever asked!

My older daughter is a software trouble shooter for a call center. Not great pay, BUT this girl has PLANS.

She is determined to reach Financial Independence in 15 years and is busy developing a lifelong learning plan for herself right now...mapping out things she wants to learn more about and how to go about doing it.

Currently her interest is in paying down debt. She has approached it in a methodical fashion with her husband, complete with a schedule/calendar of what has to be done when in order to achieve this.

Another interest is in music. She is looking at joining a music society, and taking up an instrument again, or doing voice lessons. She is reading copiously on Medieval and Baroque music at the moment.

I am telling you this so that you are aware when you homeschool them the most precious thing you can give them is a love of learning and the tools to carry on themselves long after you're out of the picture.

It sounds like you're doing a great job! Keep it up!