So what is wrong with me?  I just don't get all these parents that are so eager to justify sending their kids off to school. 

I know several moms that are SO grateful to send their kids off to school.  "How do you spend so much time with your kids?"  I get asked all the time by my neighbors.  "My kids drive me nuts and I'm so glad that I can send them to school.  If I spent all day with them, I would be insane."  I swear that was what  one mom said to me!

Why'd you have kids if you DON'T WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH THEM???? 

I know my first daughter was a surprise - not planned for, but, I think, divine intervention.  Once I had her, I could no longer understand the DESIRE to spend time AWAY from my own child.  Suddenly, nothing was more important to me then the role of raising this little person.

I only have my children in my house and with me on a daily basis for a very short time.  Soon, if I have done my job correctly, they will be able to go off on their own to be productive people that contribute to our society.  So every moment that I have with them is a blessing!  I can never recapture these days. 

I am so grateful that I can homeschool!

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Posted by bethanyrae

Yeah...I don't get it, either. They'll probably regret it one day when it's too late. Unless they're just too self-centered to realize it.
bethanyrae

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Posted by MaxwellAcademy

We also have friends and neighbors that say all the time that they can't stand it when their kids are home on break from school. I agree with you that is not just my job but something to enjoy. I love my kids, even when they do get under my skin! I missed my kids horribly when I sent them off on the bus to school.
Dianna

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Posted by diamondsintherough

I feel like a mama bear when people say dumb things like that. It makes me feel really defensve, and I would be tempted to actually ask that women what she had kids for! But I'm too nice. When those people's kids grow up, their parents will not know them. "They will say, we did our best and raised them right... I just don't know what went wrong...!" I would like be able to come up with a really sharp but gracious response.

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Posted by Diamondintherough

After posting that last comment, I just have to tell you this. I got email from my own mother yesterday, and guess what she SAID?! Do I rudely ask her why she had children in the first place? :o) I am really thinking about an appropriate response......???
Sally

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Posted by Anonymous

Sorry, I mean that last one was from diamondsintherough.

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