Ok so just stop and think for a moment...
Why do we encourage our children to be independent, motivated, never talk to strangers, and be proud to just be themselves and then send them away at the tender age of 5 or earlier to a place where they go and learn to do the exact opposite?
Why do people think homeschooled kids aren't socialized or have a hard time with socialization? These kids are exposed to people of various ages, ethnicities, and walks of life constantly. Kids in school are with people their own age, aren't encouraged to befriend kids of other ages -especially younger, cause it's not considered cool- and aren't even allotted much time to socialize while in school. Who's really at risk of not being properly socialized?
Where else do you find people trapped with their peers being forced to do everything at the same pace besides maybe prison and the armed forces? Why is this normal?
What other business could have such a horrific failure rate and still have a growing budget year after year?
Why do some people take their kids out of school or never put them in, only to do the same thing they do in school in their homes?
Now I'm not saying that homeschooling/unschooling is for everyone, this is a definite calling. I just question why some believe school is for everyone and/or should be.
Why is it that some parents curse, steal, lie and cheat and then become appalled when their kids do the same? Kids do what they see, not always what you say.
Why is it that a breastfeeding mom who nurses her child in public gets ridiculed (even if she's covered up)? Does anyone ever ask you to go to the bathroom to eat?
Why is it that if I share that I had my baby at home or a birth center with no meds, I'm some sort of super woman immune to pain? Didn't God make my body to be able to give birth? Why should I go to a Dr. and hospital who'll interfere with, prolong, and ruin a natural process? Aren't hospitals for sick people? When did pregnancy become an illness for every woman?
I just get kind of frustrated at times when I share my lifestyle with people and they are either amazed or baffled and start saying stupid things. "Excuse me Sir/Ms. your ignorance is showing"...
Why do so many just go with whatever they're told by "the experts" without thinking things through for themselves? Schools teach us to.
Be different. Be you.
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Posted by Suzanne Just yesterday or the day before, someone asked my daughter how school was going. She just shrugged and looked at me to see my response. (I can't remember exactly what my response was, but I think I said, "we plan to 'officially' start the day after Labor Day.")
Posted by hsmomof2