I posed this question on another forum. I was wondering if your spouse supports the fact that you are homeschooling. THIS IS MEANT TO MEAN YOUR HUSBAND --not a ex-spousal/divorce situation. I just used the generic word spouse... I WISH I COULD CHANGE THE POLL NAME!!! SORRY LADIES!!LOL
I guess this would depend on who your lawyer and judge are. HSLDA does not take on divorce or child support cases. However they have taken a few cases where one parent was trying to take the homeschooling rights away from the other parent. One case that stands out is a father who had every other week with his child. He wanted the child in ps while the mom wanted to continue homeschooling. HSLDA proved to the court that this was the child's school and the mom is his teacher. So the father was ordered to drive the child to school everyday that he had him. The father refused and willingly forfited his custody. I do not remember reading about money. I am assuming the mom would bear the burden of cost since she chose to homeschool.
My husband is absolutely for it and would like to be more involved, but someone has to work to support us. :angel:
The question isn't a legal one-- just what goes on in your family. Just in general --is your dh supportive or indifferent --or whatever. I wasn't referring to divorce situations. sorry for the confusion
My husband thought it was one of my kicks when we first started. But the more he hears/sees (both from me and the "real world"), the more he's 100% opposed to public school for our boys. He is a willing substitute when I need him to be. He's also completely willing to do all of the teacher if I should end up with a job good enough for him to stay home. He is already looking at art curriculum for next year when we're doing more formal stuff, since he's an artist. So if you ask me this question in a few months, I'll be choosing the top one.
Amie- My husband is exactly the same. HE thought this was one of my little adventured and I'd burn out on it quickly. But the longer we do it the more he agrees with me and now he says things like, "That's another reason we homeschool." Amy
My husband is now 100% supportive. He was not at first. We are not officially doing anything, but once we do he wants to be involved a bunch.
My dh has always been supportive, though at first it was just more supporting me in what I thought was best for our kids. Now he is 100% supportive of homeschooling itself. His involvement is pretty much limited to what I ask him to do, which really isn't much. He works a lot, so I try not to burden him with school stuff. I do ask opinions about what we are doing. He just doesn't do much hands on teaching the kids.
My husband is suportive. I think he was a bit nervous that I wouldn't follow through as well as I should since I have had a tendancy to be unorganized and there have been projects in other areas of my life that I start something all excited and then start to let things slide. I have been working on my organization and planning (still have plenty of room for imporvement) and school has been going well. Our son is learning alot and my husband sees that. As far as involvement go Hubby tends to see this as my job. I have no problem with making most of the decisions about school, but I am trying to keep Hubby informed of what we are doing at school and why. I am trying to get him a little more interested and involved by having the kids show him what they have done during the day and by doing science projects in the evening or weekend when he can be part of things.
husband is supportive, but not involved. "The education of the kids is your responsibility - just do what you need to do." Sometimes, I wish he would at least show an interest in it - other than griping that her handwriting is atrocious.
My hubby is 100% supportive but has no idea what we're doing unless I call him and tell him "Ask RJ what he did today". He knows that I'm far more Type A about their education. He hated school including most of college, etc so although he knows they need a good education, he also knows he's not the one to impart the knowledge. But at least he is supportive and doesn't complain about all the curriculum purchases, field trip expenses, etc. Rhonda C.
My husband kind of thought it was "my" thing at first, though he was supportive of me doing it. Now, he's 100% behind it, and I confer with him over curriculum choices, etc. He attends the conference, though not every year, and is more than willing to discuss our choice with other dads, especially those who are questioning their wife's "ability" to homeschool.
My dh is completely supportive. In fact, he says the children are NOT going to ps, ever. He will help more once he retires, but right now he helps when I'm not home and of course, he is the principal.
Well I put that my husband is 100% supportive and helps. He does work a lot, but he also helps with the math and science. But if supportive means going to conferences, then he falls down on that count. He does NOT like those! We've done fine without them, so that's fine with me!
My husband is totally for hs'ing and trust me 100% to make decisions. He teaches gun saftey and Hunting 101. LOL!!
I voted 100% supportive and not involved, but then I remembered the other day when he came in the school room to talk to me and I was helping Travis and Cade needed help, so I asked him to help Cade and he did. So would that bump him up to not very involved? DH was homeschooled from 7th-12th grades so he's never had any problems with me hsing the kids, but he leaves it totally up to me. I make all curriculum choices, do all the hs group activities with the kids, and do all the teaching. He will occasionally read directions to the kids or something small like that if he's in the room, and he will occasionally watch if we're doing something hands on for science. While I wouldn't mind a little help sometimes, I'm really fine with things the way they are. I am hoping he'll come to the bookfair with me in a few months, we'll see. Lisa
I chose 100% supportive, but not very involved. He works a lot, so he doesn't really have the option to be involved much. If he had more time, I'm sure he would be. I would actually worry about him taking over lol
Jeannie's dad couldn't be less involved or more disinterested if he tried. It's very frustrating to me that he never comments onn her work, never asks to see it and barely comments when I do point somethintg out that she has accomplished. He doesn't see this as real school.
