Mar. 27, 2008 - giving up homeschooling?
I only caught the end of the wife swap show last night. It seemed to be a carnival family who unschooled that switched with a super organized overscheduling family. Yet at the end I was upset that the carnival people decided to send their children to school. it makes me sad when people give up on homeschooling even though I know it's not for everyone and for their family it seemed like their children were just wandering around the carnival and were out of control and had no friends since they moved around a lot. I guess I just hear so many good things about homeschooling and how it keeps the family together and I have a lot of pressure from my extended family to not homeschool that I want to be sure in my decision. And now the public school wants my three year old for five days a week 7 hours a day since he has a speech delay. i don't want him away from home so much and what I've been learning about children on the autism spectrum is there is a great "intervention: called RDI where they learn from home in a caring environment and learn all the gestures and non-verbal communication which most people on the spectrum don't usually get. i like what other people say in their blogs, to forget what other people say and be strong in our decisions for our families. Even for that carnival family, they are making a decison that works for their family at that time.
