All Moms - Lake Worth, FL

It's not just a matter of patience, but also a matter of how much time you have to devote to it. Seriousely, you're a single mom and you own your own business, so you already have your hands full! Add homeschooling to that, and you might just get yourself too stressed out!

NO; I will not. Besides the learning from the teachers they learn from the students and that will help them on the future.

Yes, home-schooling is something I'm seriously considering for my son. He is now just 3 and in day care. I also have my 15 year old step-daughter with us, and she is wanting to try it next year. Any advice or support would be great! I like the idea of a home-schooling co-op.

i would like to home school cause i think it would be safer. however i know myself and my husband. we just do not have the discipline. the lessons would be all art and theatre, no math! sleeping late and alot of reading would be electives! so its public school for our girl (cant afford private).

i know that this has to be a really hard decision to make. i have 3 kids. only one is in school right now. he's in 6th grade. i think the one on one is great.it hard to get that in schools now a days although, i have met several children in the past few years that have been homeschooled thier whole life, i see with all of them that they lack in the social skills and interaction with others. i couldn't imagine life without all my highschool friends and experiences that i went thru. some were bad most were good. and i learned things from my friends that i couldnt learn from homeschooling.

my 3 year old doesnt talk much. he is in speech therapy. the therapist even thinks it would do him good to get more interaction with kids his age. my therapist wants me to put him in daycare. and i'm a stay at home mom. she thinks it might help his speech. he only has one friend his age on this street. all the other kids that play with him are in middle school. what i'm trying to say i guess in a round about way. interaction with other kids is important.

I do have the patience, but God is amazing. I had to learn to trust him and that He would provide the right teacher and school for my son. He did. He DID!!!!! That is just me. Ian is able to take his values to school with him and talk with me about things that oppose them. He is learning alot and thrives in the structure. I am sure that homeschooling is good in given situations. I really enjoyed school as a child and teen.
Above all, I would pray about it then listen.

Peace,

Pam
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C.,

Girl! I had to respond to this one!

I was homeschooled. I hated it. I'm not saying that every child will hate it, but me and all of my sisters hated it. We had hardly any social lives or friends. We felt left out from the dances, proms, athletic games and just being and feeling 'normal'.

Unless you are going to have set hours, be 'in school' for the hours that other kids are in school, have steady and mandatory work books and help your child through every problem and devote your time and efforts to your child daily, don't do it.

My step-mom said that "God told her to homeschool us"...but she spent most of her day on the computer. She started out with books for us and trying to help us out when we needed it, but that soon faded away. I was 8 years old when she started homeschooling me, I was up at 6 am with my dad before he went to work and she slept until 10, by the time she got up I'd already showered and dressed myself, made my own breakfast and was halfway through what schoolwork I had to do...Once I got into highschool homeschool, she wasn't even home to homeschool. I homeschooled my sisters. I did my work and helped with theirs. My sisters are 18 and 16. The oldest graduated last year, she doesn't know any algerba...the most math she knows is simple division. The youngest can't even write in cursive. The only reason I even got my diploma was because I would stay at my friends houses on the weekend and do all the schoolwork in their books and they would help me if I needed it, without them I'd be just as stupid. You seriously have to devote alot of time and effort and have alot of patience in order to homeschool a child.

I will never homeschool my children.

{sry it was so long!}

C.,
I was home schooled kindergarden thru 3rd grade. I loved it. I was always done by noon usually then I would play outside with my little brother while my mom worked in the garden. When I did start public school in 4th grade I was way ahead of everyone else, especially in math!
I grew up in Montana and the schools the are a lot better and safer than here in Florida. I would definetly home school if you have that patience. At least through grade school. I know there are a lot of home schooling groups around, so that your child can get together and socialize (in a much better enviroment than a school) By high school, I personally would put them in public school so that they have the chance to take the classes that are offered that you might not know well enough to teach. Good luck!! I want to home school, but I don't know if I will have any patients by then! My older daughter is only 2 and is already wearing out my patients!!!! Sorry this is so long!

D.