Hello everyone!

As my profile will tell you, I'm currently working full-time and attending school part-time online, while my husband is attending school full-time. We don't have children yet - and we're not even sure we will! However, last month I have stumbled across the HomeSchoolBlogger, and read with great interest the blogs of many home school families since then.

Your blogs have been a real education in a totally different way of life for me! Perhaps it's because I live in southern New England, but I have never known, or even known of, a home schooling family. I've never thought about home schooling before, either pro or con! For the first time, I am becoming very interested in the possibility of raising a family and teaching our children ourselves both to gain the joy and satisfaction of being together as a family and learning together naturally, and also to avoid many of the obvious pitfalls of public school education.

One of the main reasons I've created this blog is so that I will be able to post comments now and again on some of your blogs. I hope to exchange thoughts with some of you soon!

April

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Posted by SmallWorld

where I was raised and where my parents still live, I have a similar experience. I live in the South now, where homeschooling is huge, and everyone knows a homeschooling family. But when I visit my hometown, my high school friends are tongue-tied when it comes to me and my homeschooling. They don't know any other homeschoolers and don't even know the "wrong" questions to ask (i.e., "what about socialization?" While it is often said that trends begin on the East and West coasts and move inward, I believe that homeschooling is a trend that is centered largely in the middle states now and will ultimately become huge on the coasts. Maybe you can be a trendsetter!

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Posted by Aprilelah

Thanks for your comment, Small World! I have been thinking you're right about this trend coming from "the middle" - I can see that is where most of the home school families on homeschoolblogger seem to live! In fact, I decided to post another blog for more background on that topic.

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