I am a proud homeschooling mom. I have been homeschooling now for 8 years. We had a problem in a Christian school. My husband and I decided together, our son had to come out of this school during the Christmas break. A friend of ours, also took her daughter out of this class, we started homeschooling them at the same time. Our son will tell you, he does not want to go back to school. Everyone wants to talk about the social aspect of homeschooling. Well, I will tell you, I just got home at 9:30 after being gone since 12:30 today. Our 11 year old son, had a social group from 1-4pm, then my husband brought our oldest son to me, and picked up our 11 yr old son. Our 13 yr old son, then had his social group from 4:30 - 8:30 tonight. Our social groups are children playing all kinds of funny, made up games, ping-pong, and air hockey. We have food for them as well, they also get time to just sit and talk. Homeschool parents don't just stay home and do school. We have support groups, that help plan field trips, social game days, Christmas parties, Valentine parties and so on. There are so many things we do with our children, that you can not go to everything, because you would not get the school work done. One thing that I love to hear about my 3 children, is HOW WELL THEY BEHAVE! Homeschool children, for the most part, are very well behaved, respectful to other adults and children. In our area, business love for us to come for a field trip because of our children showing respect and being very well behaved.
I hope that Jylana will get all the information about homeschooling, so that she can really show her husband the great things about homeschooling their son. He will only miss out on things, if they keep him home 24/7. Some of the really great things about homeschooling; you have more family time, your child/children are not at school for 7-8 hrs a day, then come home and have 2-3 hrs of homework to do before going to bed. Another one, we get to take vacations ANYTIME we want! October or November is a great time to go to Disney World, all the other children are in school, great weather, don't have to worry about long lines for rides. You get to go to different places and learn about them first hand, not just from a book. Instead of just reading about Washington D.C., Jamestown, Yellowstone Park, and the Grand Canyon take the kids there and learn about thoses places first hand.
My husband tell people, when they ask about the social part of homeschooling, "There was a lot of social things, kids learning from kids, he could have done without!"
And, Jylana is determined to home school her son, but her husband, Mike, says he'll miss opportunities and become socially stunted.
If Mike wants to say that my children are socially stunted because they have not learned about sex, how to tease other children, how to just be plain mean to others, how smoking is cool and how to do drugs, then I am very happy they are socially stunted!! Our oldest son only knows what his dad had told him about sex, not what other children think about it and do.
I am a very proud homeschooling mom!!
