Homeschool

I am homeschooling ds8 and soon to be 5 yo twins. Last year, I purchased a fancy packaged curriculum and it was such a waste. It was written for a classroom with alot of activities that I had to modify or eliminate completely. It was rather discouraging. This year, I decided to try Sonlight and I Love it! It is such a better fit for us. I’m not crazy about the language arts, but I love having the IG’s to go by. So far, this year is going great.

Well, I am counting down the days until my oldest starts homeschool preschool. Its only a hour and a half for two days a week… but I am already stressing about it! UGHHH!

I want to homeschool my children. Alot of people give me looks, especially family. My son has ADHD, and we tried preschool. It didn’t work out for our family.

Now all I have to do is get organized about it… he’s 4 and will be 5 in July

I was home-schooled from kindergarten through 12th grade. My mother home-schooled all of my siblings through most of their school years, and so far, everyone’s turned out fairly normal. :)
The returns on home-schooling your children, of course, correspond directly with how much you (and the child) invest in it. Our family was committed to schooling (although I’m not going to say we never had a day where going to the grocery store counted as school), and I think it shows in the way we’ve all excelled academically.
My older brother never spent a day in a “real” school until he got to college, where he finished his bachelor’s degree in two years. He’s currently the press secretary for the Senate majority office in our home state.
I chose a different route for continuing my education, taking a writing internship in Chicago and then spending a year in Switzerland studying German. Now I’m happily married, doing a lot of volunteer work, and starting college courses next semester, for personal enrichment more than anything else.
I have nine other siblings who are doing just as well. I don’t think we’re anything special, this is just the payoff for all my mom’s (and our) hard work.
I am sure it can be daunting and at times discouraging when you are in the beginning stages of homeschooling your children, but it really will all pay off in the end!

I’ve convinced my mother to enroll me in homeschooling next year.

I just bought the curriculum to homeschool dd (gulp). Now I’m in the process of filing out paperwork for the board of ed and we should be able to begin on Monday!

She opens her mouth with wisdom,
and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

It didn’t take much time or effort (especially as he was admitted to college at age 8) and our son graduated a couple months ago with two bachelor’s degrees at age 13 (with lots of honors, like Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science and Phi Beta Kappa). I remember my brother asking me during a beach vacation when my son was 5, “So when are you going to let him into the real world?” The notion of traditional schools being “the real world” still cracks me the heck up. Anyway, my brother stopped asking me that question years ago. Our son had three job offers at age 8, has quite a nice financial portfolio for a kid (better rounded than his parents), got to travel plenty in his childhood (started by business trips, his first being at age 8; during his college years, he visited 17 countries and he’s been to 33 states), and still gets to do all the regular childhood stuff (like yesterday, he was at an all day anime movie marathon at the home of a friend he’s know since he was 4 and she was 3 and he played “Sorry” – a gift she had given him). Being homeschooled allowed him to not only learn, but have the feeling that learning is fun, and to not just enjoy the company of those his own age, but those of all ages. He’s equally comfortable on the swings on a playground as in a professional conference or business meeting…not too many teens can say that.