Reasons to Homeschool

the ratio is 1:2 instead of 1:20

 

no one loves my kids and will stick with them through learning struggles like I will

 

if we are hung up in phonics, we can still speed ahead in math

 

School is done by noon! No homework!!

 

I know what they are eating for lunch...I don't have to worry about packing a lunch, and I don't have to worry about weird cafeteria options!

 

Our bathroom is a safe place! Who knows what happens in school bathrooms...THAT freaks me out.

 

I was the one who got to hear my son read his first book!!!!

 

I don't have to buy back to school clothes!

 

No annoying fund raisers to deal with

 

God is using homeschooling to make me into the person He wants me to be. Sometimes it's hard, but it's part of the refining process.

 

It gives my kids a chance to be best friends! (And that's part of the refining process for them!)

 

50 and climbing.....


Guest lecturers include Daddy, Granny, and Bob and Larry.

 

My son LOVES to learn. That's one of goals..not trying to stuff him like a Thanksgiving turkey full of facts, but to really instill a love for learning. Homeschooling provides this opportunity.

In my experience (I was a teacher in my past life), public school sucks the love for learning right out of 'em.

 

As a stay-at-home-mom, my brain my melt into nothingness if I didn't homeschool.

 

DS5 is learning to teach, too. He often reteaches DS3 the elements that he's heard me teach.

 

Ems can read on the swing instead of in a desk.

 

"Sorry, that's right in the middle of school time" is a great way to skirt people who think that just because you stay home, you have all the time in the world for them.

 

I have an excuse to color

 

PE encourages me to exercise, too.

 

I'm relearning a lot