Our reasons are: 1. to have more time with God and family. 2. My son has un-diagnosed ADHD and needs an environment where he can move around and properly be taught how to manage his impulses. 3. He was born with a cleft lip and palate. He will have extensive orthodontic work...we want to avoid bullying. 4. purely selfish....I do not want to get everyone ready in the morning to shove them in a vehicle to take children to school at 7:15am, 5 days a week.
LOL, this is exactly what my DH says. He is completely on board with homeschooling & when I ask him what his reason is, he says it is purely selfish reasons. He works 24 hr shifts & he says he just wants to come home to sleep instead of taking them to school. I take them to school most mornings but he does on his off days. I will admit, it will be so nice not having to get up so early. Of coarse, that's not my main reason. I also want more God & family time like you. I too think my son has ADHD & ODD which makes him very hard to handle at times. Sometimes I don't know if I will be able to handle him all day, trying to school him. Then I think, will teachers be able to handle him? It's a struggling figuring out whether I should homeschool.
I'm a little late but I need to remind myself, so I'll post a few of mine in no particular order. 1. God told me to. 2. I am selfish with my children and don't want to share the best hours of their day with other people who can't possibly love them as much or care more for their hearts/minds/emotions than I. 3. My oldest was reading beginning chapter books at 4 and doing 1st grade math. He would have been bored and in trouble a lot. My sons learning at their own pace is a great benefit to homeschooling. 4. The public schools around here do not impress me and with God's help I know my sons are getting what they need. 5. I want to focus on faith and character education. 6. Classrooms are generally not set up to accommodate active boys. Again, they would be in trouble a lot because sitting still for a long time is hard. 7. I want my kids to learn real social skills. 8. Close family relationships.
I haven't read all the responses yet, but I'm in a similar boat. My kindergartener is currently attending a half day K at a Christian private school (last year she was there for half day preK). Honestly, it's been an overall fine experience. I've LOVED her teachers and the staff I've met, she's learning/thriving, and she rarely gets homework so I don't feel she's being pushed too hard... Yet, I still feel led to homeschool starting next year. The reasoning I've come up with so far: I feel like the Lord has led me to it and put it on my heart. There is nothing I look forward to about leaving them for 7 hour days plus all the homework/peer pressure (even in Christian schools). I want our family unit to be as close and strong as possible (sure, they drive me crazy sometimes... but these days/months/years are passing far too quickly). I want to be my children's biggest influence. I want to be there when they learn things for a the first time (just like I wanted to be there when they first crawled/walked/talked). I want them to have more individualized attention and for their curriculum to be built around their personalities. I want to plan vacations and special events based on our own schedules. I want to choose activities carefully when it comes to taking up our precious time. I don't want them to be put in a room with other kids simply because of their age, but because of their similar interests (even in a Christian school, it's amazing how little I have in common with the parents in my daughter's class. It's awkward and uncomfortable).
My daughter has ADHD, Anxiety, Aspergers, and Bipolar. She can have horrible melt downs. I feel I can work around those to teach her. I don't want her bullyed. I'm not a moma who would put up with that. I would lose my temper. That isn't pretty. lol. I do think God called me to do this before she was even born. I worked with a lady who was homeschooled. She told me a lot about it and I thought how cool. When Vicki came along I checked out Christian schools and didn't like them. I knew public school was not even in the picture. I drove a bus for years and seen to much. It gives me time with her I can't ever get back. We have bad, bad, and bad days because of her problems, but I wouldn't ever change it. I want my child to know she is loved by her parents and mostly by God. That is something they don't teach in ps.
Hi and welcome sista 1 - The Lord Led me ... same as you, all I could do was think about homeschooling and nothing else for 1 year before I obeyed and did it.... as a result of my disobedience, my son got bullied by not only the students but his teacher and regressed in a lot of his learning. 2 - Outside influence was beginning to alter my children's beautiful, loving personalities. I do not fault other kids for being brought up in bad environments, but man, I can't handle the idea that my kids are being told what "grown up things are" in 1st grade!!! 3 - Bullying ... the teacher was telling my child he was bad, a terror, and would pressure him by telling his peers that they whole class wouldn't get a treat if he was bad.... once a student kicked him in the boy parts so hard twice that he was limping when he got home and that was just the beginnning ... after LIVING at the school and still nothing being done, I had to pull them both out ... it was starting to happen to my youngest.
:mrgreen:Just came across this today... https://www.aophomeschooling.com/bl...n=enews&utm_content=beckyraeolson@charter.net
