What made you decide to home school your child?

Question

I should say why we choose homeschooling...

A bright child with learning disabilites that were ad enough for the school to want to keep her back a year, but not bad enough to get her any extra help.

Because of the above, a child who detested school because she was "dumb" and didn't think she could learn.

And a school that refused to interceed on behalf of a child who was being targeted for bullying and teasing because of skin color.

Answer 1

1. Before our wedding my husband said, "When we have children I want you to homeschool them".
2. After our wedding I began researching the possibilities. Reading books and listening to lectures by Samuel Blumenfeld and Phyllis Shlafly helped me to learn more about homeschooling.
3. 3 years later when our first child was born I KNEW that God had given me a precious gift and responsibility. Teaching my child was going to be MY job.
4. When my son was merely 2 yrs old I began looking for other parents that had already chosen to homeschool their children. I set up a meeting and invited a speaker --- this man now runs a wonderful home-school co-op and testing program in Oregon.
5. Listening to speakers such as Greg and Sony Harris at an homeschool conference in Gresham, Oregon helped with my decision.
6. Praying and waiting on the Lord to convince me in my heart of what to do and how to do it.
7. My own experience in publicschooling as a very bright student but without the challenge to do my very best. I received A's and high B's but did not learn to my potential. My own experience with the "socialization" issue. The people that I associated with in school are not the people that I now know.
8. I want my children to know how to communicate well WITH adults on a daily basis because it is ADULTS that will be their bosses, co-workers, professors, etc... in the future.

My original decision to agree with my husband and homeschool came along with all of the regular "negative because's".

BUT I can now tell you with utmost confidence that I would do it all again because it is the right thing to do. The results that I see in my family are wonderful. I love the fact that my children know me and I know them very well. I love the fact that they have many friends that are well behaved and honest and honorable. (some are from public school too!) I love the fact that they do well in college. I love the fact that they do well on the job. I love the fact that they know how to think and how to study.

I LOVE MY CHILDREN!!!! They are the most awesome people in my life. It is a joy to be near them and to watch them grow and learn. That is why I decide every day to homeschool again and again and again.

Barb

BTW: I should add that my children are now 23, 20, 17 and 15.
My 23 yr son has 3 children and his wife will help him to home-school them. My 20 yr daughter is in college and getting A's. My 17 yr daughter and 15 yr son are busy studying at home, working, playing on sports teams along with other projects and activities. My only regret is that there are not younger children in my home!!!! It is such a joy to have happy children growing and learning in the home every day.

Answer 2

1. It happened by accident. We didn't know about homeschooling until our 2nd child was born and we saw how happy and curious she was. In the meantime, our schooled child had over 10 hours of school each day from 7-4 (bussing and school) and then two hours of homework each night. He'd been since 3 years old and a once happy child, although making B's at a very hard school, was sad and depressed and joyless...despite having friends.

2. After reading up and getting the facts about homeschooling, we decided it best not to send our youngest to school and wise to yank our oldest. The results? Two happy, healthy, smart, social, playful, fun-loving, curious, autodidactic children.

3. We don't feel children learn how to function in an adult society around children stuffed in a classroom for 6-7 hours a day with only their peers.

4. We don't like government recommendations on what children should learn, nor the state testing requirements. They are individuals and deserve room to grow in the way Nature leads them, and we do not believe that can be done with a "one-size fits all" canned curriculum.

5. We want our children to be free-thinkers and truly FREE. We believe that our children should have choices and they do; they can go to school if they want but they choose not to.

6. We want our children to have strong self-esteems and we believe that that is best achieved in an atmosphere of love and positivity. We believe that that will more than prepare them for life because they will have 18 or more years of being true to themselves and therefore will continue to do so after leaving the nest.

7. We believe in maintaining a strong family unit.

8. Because we can thanks to people who go against the grain...I'm thankful to be part of the group that does not go along with the "popular/in-crowd".

Answer 3

When it was time to sign up for kindergarten we realised that it was not going to be a good fit for a child already reading 'The Hobbit' and doing multi-digit multiplication. We started homeschooling and have found that we absolutely love it. Our daughter can move at her own pace in academics and still have plenty of time for her music, dance, horseback riding, soccer, park days, field trips, theatre trips, playdates, etc. We can set up group learning experience with other local homeschool families and outside classes such as art or dance. We can take our vacations whenever fits our schedule and get to all the parks or museums when they aren't busy because everyone else is stuck in school! If it is a beautiful day we can go out and play and wait to do school when it is not so nice outside.

So a bad fit with the age/grade lockstep of public school got us started and all the benefits have kept us going.

Answer 4

First, when my oldest was ready for Kindergarten, they wouldn't allow him in because his birthday was 2 days after the deadline. They told me he could go to Pre-K, but after I filled out all the papers, they said we make too much money.

So, we decided to homeschool for K, and he could go to school in 1st. Well, homeschooling was going so great that we decided to stay with it.

Good thing too, because all the schools in my district are failing standards. And the one my son would have gone to isn't very strict on discipline problems. I was afraid for my son's safety.

Answer 5

A combination of lousy schools and a bright child.

Answer 6

I am 14. iIlike homeschooling. I have gone to school before and I prefer homeschool.

Answer 7

i don't have kids but if i was a parent why should the adults home school their children. Parents might have the money to send. but if they do the should send their child to private school if they didn't want them to go to regular school. It's simple enough. but the other reason is that they may want to spend time with their child but don't have the feeling to talk about it.so they take it out on homeschooling.

Answer 8

1) My religion tells me to.

2) I want to protect my daughters from ANY and ALL boogie men.

3) My daughters are precious angels who are superior to all others, and deserve to be treated as such.

4) As a parent, I am SUPERIOR to any teacher that ever lived.

5) Why send them to school when a TV set will do.

Got it?

Answer 9

only we know whats best for our child look at the world today
bad behaviors every where it hard to decode them once there started

Answer 10

afraid of bad influence on my child