Another one of the many reasons I homeschool is family time. I use this term in more than one way. First I love my son and love to spend time with him. Homeschooling allows me time with my son I wouldn’t otherwise have if he went to public school. Second homeschooling allows us to spend more time with our family as a whole.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone says “I couldn’t stand to spend that much time with my children.” It makes me even more upset when they say this in front of their children. First off, these are their children, they raised them to be who they are and depending on how old they are sent them off to school to be raised the rest of the time. If you don’t like the way they turned out, if they are to the point where you couldn’t be around them for that amount of time maybe that means it’s time to homeschool. Anyway you look at it it means it’s time to do something about the situation. When people say this in front of their children they are basically telling their children they are their parent so they love them, they just don’t like them. I could only imagine what that child is thinking and feeling. I can say I would never want to feel that. I will be the first to admit Jonathan is not perfect and can get to me sometimes. I couldn’t imagine sending him off eight hours a day for someone else to raise though. I value the time we get to spend together.
Homeschooling also allows us to spend more time with the rest of our family. My niece finally came home from the hospital. We left early Friday to go see her and didn’t get home until late tonight. If Jonathan was in school that would have been at least two days of missed school he would have to make up. Three missed days if he wasn’t able to get up on time tomorrow after getting home so late. My aunt and uncle stopped by on their way back from Illinois to visit my niece. While they were there, they invited us to come stay with them on a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday as that is what fits into their schedule. We can do that, but not if Jonathan went to public school. While we were at my sister’s house she asked me if needed could I go there for a month or so to help with taking care of my niece, I said “Certainly!” I would not have been able to do that if Jonathan went to school. I talked to my other sister before we left to visit my niece. We discussed Thanksgiving plans. We will be leaving here on the 20th and be gone until the 25th. That would be more days missed if he were in school.
We homeschool and because we homeschool we are able to spend more valuable time with each other. Our children are only children once and for only such a short while. We homeschool, and because we homeschool we are able to spend more valuable time with our family. Time that we would not otherwise be able to spend with them. We learned very quickly that lives can change and end in the blink of an eye and the more time we can spend with the ones we love while they are here, the better.
Why Homeschool?: Personalization