I think you're doing a disservice to your children...

jackie, you are so right.

 

i love the quotes!

 

darn, the lead in had me and I came ready for a fight. I always miss the trolls and then everyone talks about it and I feel left out. sigh.

Hooray for a stay at home dad that wants to homeschool. You won't have too much trouble with naysayers because they will already be avoiding you for being so odd as to want to stay home with your kids.
We have alternated at our house with the staying at home thing. Frankly I would rather be the one working...but at the moment it works better for it to be me that stays at home.
I am not sure how it would work to have my dh do the lesson plans and leave them for us....I am pretty sure I would rebel against that. But if that is one of the issues, lack of confidence in putting together the lesson plans...that might work out well.
I am converting to an (almost) total Unit study approach...everything but Math. So we will see how I do with someone elses lesson plans.

My own 7th grader likes homeschooling. But he was having such trouble with school it was a relief for him to be home. He does miss his friends, but we try to get together with them regularly. It has been tough because his best friend moved... I appreciate the lack of drama. I can not remember one single positive social experience I had in middle school. It was ALL painful. and I don't think I "learned how to deal" with the difficult situations...I got through them...but getting your heart broken doesn't help the next time you get your heart broken. I think being older and more mature helps. and that is just time.
I tell my boys, when they talk about going back to school, or "deciding" to continue to homeschool...."I will take your feelings into consideration, but the decision on where you go to school is your father and I's decision."
Good luck with it!

 

Thanks for the welcomes and kudos. I didn't necessarily grab the torch willingly. The wife and I both worked for the same state agency for years. She finally became a supervisor while I continued as a foot soldier. When the day finally came where we decided "we're gonna do this" it only made sense for me to be the one to stay home b/c she made far more than I did. As a single income family we still are on a precarious budget, but we just couldn't have made it one my income at the time. I got all the jokes about being the "wife" and such, and I can laugh at myself so I brushed them off mostly, but humor is based in truth, eh? Most didn't press b/c, well, to be honest at a fairly broad 5'11", 230lbs. most folks I know wouldn't like to deal with me being irritated. So we just did it, and it's worked out great.

Anyways, thanks again....and I just thought of another question....

 

Very funny title.

You should send them to youtube, there is a funny home schooler response to all of the annoying questions people ask when you say you are home schooling.