What is your biggest frustration or Problem With homeschooling?

Legislation under the guise of being "for the children" when really it is "for the pockets" of everyone whose livelihood depends on the current educational system and its many agencies who would not exist if it were not for people sending their children to public schools.

 

didn't get started hsing, yet.

but ditto to the ps comment sloan given. that is the very reason got us heading to hsing journey.

good health and happiness!

 

Oh I can not forget this. My mom showing up during the middle of our HS day.

 

Picking a curriculum.

Honestly. There are so many different types, brands, and ideas.


I'm hoping my choices will be good and next year will be easier.

 

People who think my choice to homeschool is an attack on their choice to public school and comments like "I'd homeschool but my kids like having friends and playing sports" and questioning my girl to see if she knows what their kids know.

 

My kids distracting each other during lessons! Ughh. . . my youngest will decide to sing hymns while the oldest one is studying and when I ask him to be quiet I hear, "but Mom, it's for God!"

 

DITTO!!!! I could have wrote this post!!!!

 

For me I think it was the loneliness of not really being able to talk to anyone about the times when hs was difficult. I learned early that most advice from usually very well meaning people, was along the line of, "well just enroll them in ps."

 

I try not to dwell much on what is frustrating and instead try to enjoy the freedom I have to "train my child up in the way he should go"....God has called me to this roller coaster ride and I am trying to just enjoy the ride. It goes by way too fast

 

Distractions and a lack of focus! My 2yo dd is notorious for causing distractions ALL day! I must tell my 10 yo dd to focus on her work atleast 100 times per day!

 

not being able to be part of the outgoing crowd. the wives who will go visit all the neat places during the day while their children are in school/day care. it be nice to go with a group of people but they don't want me to bring the children. In the end I plan the same trip as a field trip. Honestly I think we have more fun when it's just us because it's just the kids and me and for some reason some of the people here are just drawn to my children and we get little trinkets that I wouldn't have gotten if I went with a bunch of other wives. Hmm maybe this isn't so frusterating anymore.

 

The biggest problem I am facing is juggling teaching and working. If I spend more time on one, the other begins to slide downhill. If only there were 48 hours in a day!

 

Completely out of context but this grabbed me.

My house never being a, "neat place." Neat as in clean and tidy.

 

My biggest frustration to homeschooling? Other people's ignorance on the subject which results in insulting comments such as, "You need to send _____ to REAL school." or "You need to send ______ to (real) school so he can be popular, have friends, and play sports."

Huh? When was THAT made a requirement for graduation?

My reply to that would be: 1. Sports is a recreation, not academics. For the majority of
people, it will never be a vocation. What? You didn't
KNOW that?
2. For your information, it IS possible to make friends and
"be popular" outside the public school setting. I'm sorry
you did not KNOW that!
Then there are those who say, "________ is being rebellious because you took her out of REAL school." REALLY? Then what is causing the rampant rebellion among public school kids?

Yes, there will be those, as another poster previously said, who will grill your kids as to their knowledge. A public school teacher (a relative by marriage) who had a son close to the same age as my youngest son, began asking my son academic questions while in the presence of his own son. The teacher became embarrassed when he discovered my son knew the answers to his questions that his own son did not know! This same teacher tried to quizz my older son one day, as well. The teacher asked my son what he had learned that day. I absolutely LOVED my son's reply. In a joking tone of voice, my son said, "It's so far over your head that you would not understand it!" LOL! Needless to say, there were no more questions that I ever recall.

 

Same here.

 

Feeling like an outcast among other parents who send their kids to public school.
Always second guessing myself on the way I am teaching my children.
Wondering if I'm "messing" my kids up. But hoping that I'm doing a good job..

 

Our biggest issue is the lack of other kids in our neighborhood. Our homeschool group is small and we can get together 1-2x a week, but bc it is small my son is always asking about joining the HS group about 25 min away, too. He LOVES being around lots of people.

 

motivating myself to get every subject done everyday

 

Totally agree! People that can't mind their own business! I don't have any other frustrations

 

This forum needs a Like button! So many great comments to which I could totally relate. When I need to remember why I hs and I feel defeated and frustrated, this forum is always just the place I need to go! Thanks!