I have recently had a question floating around in my head. I want to turn this into a suggestion. I think that when the time comes for your child to begin school...that you should research all of the options. I have had several people tell me that "they could never home school". I have often wanted to follow that statement with several questions.
(1).Have you considered asking a home school parent if you can observe them for the morning? This way, your "ideas" about what it looks like can be reigned in a little and brought back to reality.Personally, I would observe several. Most people say,"I could never do that", without ever defining what "that" is.
(2). Did the thought of "parenting" not scare you to death when you thought about having kids? You learn as you go...(and you go to conferences and read books to learn how to do it "better".)
(3).Do you know where your child's private or public school teacher went to college, how well they did on their testing to be able to teach your child?
Just some questions to get you thinking a little in this direction. I just hate to hear people critique a structure that they have never looked in to...have never researched...or never observed. When I hear an individual do this, it makes me want to keep my mouth shut about everything so as to avoid appearing closed minded and ignorant.
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I think these are great questions and very appropriate! I honestly had never thought about home-schooling prior to having Rusty, but after reading your posts and doing some research on my own, Brad and I are approximately 95% sure that we will be doing just that. Maybe I can put all of those years of education to good use!:-) Be prepared as I'm sure I'll be contacting you with many questions in the coming years!
Karrie Atwell
I updated--just for you.
i was so scared of becoming a parent that when taking the pregnancy test that i could hardly pee on stick.
i used to say i would never in a million years homeschool - it wasn't because i was scared of my inability, it was because i just wasn't interested.
then i gave birth.
my how things change.
now it's lack of ability to be able to teach my kids that makes me hesitate. so i found my state's standards for kindergarten, and came away going, "I can do that."
So we'll see.
I was afraid of not being able to keep Judah alive when she was born, and four and half years later, she's still here, so I guess we are somehow surviving on that front, and perhaps we can survive on some others that scare us to death as well.
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