I started out our homeschooling journey reluctantly. I had no intention to homeschool our children until I saw that public education was not going to work and that private school was not something I could afford.
I had every intention to help my children as they needed. The bulk of the teaching however, would be in school, in a classroom with other kids and someone who was getting paid to do the job. After all, I had my own plans and interests and was quite talented at what I was doing.
Still things kept happening that made me admit that homeschooling was something we had to do. My son’s first grade teacher, when I complained that he had already done the same work a year before in a previous school said, “Do you want to frustrate the other children?” She said it rather impatiently. Teachers kept pushing ritalin for a child who I knew did not need it. my kids began showing physical symptoms of being unhappy in school. These things happened to regularly for my tastes.
As a parent, I was willing to do whatever it took to make my children well, to make them happy, to make them valuable. As if by divine intervention, a homeschooling mother was brought into my life who showed me that it was not only possible, but actually simple when you take advantage of resources around you.
I may have started out as a reluctant homeschooler, but it did not take long until I became quite enthusiastic about it. I hope the same for you.
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What made you decide to homeschool?
Mother knows best: Why I homeschool part one
Mother knows best: Why I homeschool part one