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Today's question is, What led to your decision to homeschool?
Our experience with pre-school is what led us to our decision to homeschool. That and we were living in Hawaii at the time and my husband had attended Hawaiian schools. He knew how bad they were.
Pre-school wasn't terrible, just frustrating. I could not invision myself dealing with all the stupidity for years to come. The teacher practically had my daughter married off to another little boy in her class, many of the other mothers were more worried about how popular their little darlings were, and we couldn't figure out exactly what it was we were paying for. Not to mention our daughter's bad attitude when she came home from school! I couldn't take it anymore and pulled her out.
I do have to say that I made a wonderful friend out of the deal and she had the cutest little girls with big brown eyes! We still keep in touch albeit infrequently.
We gave homeschooling one year to see how it would go. That one year has turned into 12 years and I wouldn't have it any other way. Homeschooling has brought our family closer together, I love being able to be right there for all of my children's questions and being able to discuss everything. Homeschooling isn't just three hours of our day, it's all day, every day. Everything we do is a learning opportunity.
It has also helped us to keep Christ at the center of our lives instead of a school schedule and curriculum. I have been able to give my children room to grow instead of having labels thrown at them. They are individuals who can make up their own minds without being swayed, unlike other children who's unbridled emotions are falsly called, "expressing themselves."
It's one decision I don't regret.
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Aug. 7, 2007
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Aug. 10, 2007
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Hi Tia!
