Why I Love Homeschooling

I applaud your homeschooling, seriously. But I should note that you can have those conversations if your kid is in public/private school, too. As long as you're bothering to take an interest in it.

However, I got nothin' on 1-3. The curriculum alone is persuasive.

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Well, it looks like my homeschool adventures are about to resume, at least for one kid. The only thing the school can offer my middle child is French, which I *can* teach, but really wish she wanted to learn German or Latin or Spanish, the languages I studied. So it looks like I'll be learning French along with her. (When you know enough of three languages plus English, you know enough to figure out the language structure to study it on your own. I just prefer my daughter had a person who already spoke French to teach her.)

Okay, so language aside…she knows the science, the English, the supposed history which they call "Humanities," and the computer science (they're teaching keyboarding this year…whereas she's been writing computer programs for three years). PE? She took sixteen hours of ballet a week until she broke her arm. Family and consumer science? She does her own laundry, is an apprentice to a professional chef at a local bistro, has taken all the Wilton cake decorating classes and can make a wedding cake to make you cry, and can sew her own clothes. She also has a part-time business selling jewelry she makes. Is she a super-kid? Certainly not…just interested in many, many things.

But I agree…homeschooling is wonderful, albeit exhausting and challenging. I love that it is flexible, and I love how we can really explore history and science, rather than just cram for some test.

And that orthodontist thing? I know I've personally put all of my orthodontist's kids through college…and my oldest appears to be spending most of her adolescence in braces, too, although we finished paying for them a while ago. I still have one kid to go yet, too.

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Well, you gotta admit that the idea of turning the stick figures sideways would actually work well. And to represent the pregnant teens, the stick figure could have a huge baby bump. Okay, okay….that's going to far perhaps.

The field trips alone would be worth me homeschooling my kids!

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You are definitely my hero for getting all that done. And here is my gripe for the night, why do I as a parent have to do my 5th grade daughter's homework with her. Honestly the teacher sent it home as a together project, how to teach your child to spell better. Really?? My daughter won second place in her whole school last year in the spelling bee, but she needs me to do a group project with her about spelling? No thanks. I signed that I helped her do it and sent it back to school. Am I horrible or what?

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You are definitely my hero for getting all that done. And here is my gripe for the night, why do I as a parent have to do my 5th grade daughter's homework with her. Honestly the teacher sent it home as a together project, how to teach your child to spell better. Really?? My daughter won second place in her whole school last year in the spelling bee, but she needs me to do a group project with her about spelling? No thanks. I signed that I helped her do it and sent it back to school. Am I horrible or what?

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Ooooh. The Goth is on the nat'l forensics league debate team? I want to meet him. ASAP. Because that is like the totally non-nerdiest , sexiest thing to do in the entire universe.

What's that? I sound biased? You want to know if did the NFL, too? Well, err, yes. But I am so normal. So very normal.

Goth and the Mother, let's rendezvous, soon! Because someone needs to take on Jimmy Carter.

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if you turned my stick figure sideways? It would stick out on the bottom (bum) and not at all on the top. Sad but true.

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I'm homeschooling my son this year for preschool and am I getting the fits from my inlaws! They can't stand it. It doesn't matter that I didn't want to send him to a church preschool and that's all there was in the area; they think I should have signed him up anyhow.

Come on, it's preschool! I can give him social time with friends, he has karate classes so he's learning some confidence and I can sure handle that level of academics.

I don't know that I'll be a regular homeschooler. My daughter is happy in public school, if a bit too social for her teacher's preferences. On the plus side, the teacher has already noticed that my daughter is particularly imaginative for a second grader. That's something I refuse to train her out of. That so many kids her age have lost their innate creativity drives me nuts.

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Out of curiosity, what does your daily schedule look like? Do you spend the same amount of time each day on the same subjects, or do you mix it up?

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Just Stretch's 8th grade curriculum had me floored. I'm having a hard enough time helping my daughter with her Algebra 2 homework. Precal? Pass the Pepcid. Although I completely understand the pleasure you get out of it, not to mention the benefits your children are reaping. And all those great outings seem to balance out the need for pharmaceuticals. Your kids sound hilarious, btw. I'm sure they're a lot of fun to be around when they're not driving you to drink.

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I'm still excruciatingly bitter at my parents for not letting me homeschool.

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