Best thing about homeschooling

For me the best thing is a personalized education. If I had a second choice it would be a promotion of a parent-child and sibling-sibling bond over a peer-peer bond.
 
I love the freedom we have all together. If one curriculum doesn't work, our child isn't forced to stick with it for the rest of the year.
 
Yep, personalized education! That is the best. I can let my son move around (even though it drives me crazy). We can do some thing orally, instead of him writing everything down (which drives him crazy). Plus, we can skim through stuff he already knows. We can go backwards in math to review, which we have done and it is wonderful to let him do that without piling on a current assignment on top of the review. It also lets me see what areas he is weak in and what he is strong in.
 
The very best thing for me is being able to teach what I feel is important for them to know, and teach it in a way that encourages them to learn.
 
For us, it's avoiding the negative influences of peer groups, and having family, and friends I approve of being the major influence in our kids lives.

In the short few months my son was in ps, I really disliked some of the behaviours he picked up!
 
First and foremost, I love having my Lord openly acknowledged and invited into all aspects of my daughter's life while she is learning!
 
My favorite thing about hs is what it is doing for our family. My kids are each others BFFs and mom and dad aren't out of the loop when it comes to knowing what's going on in their hearts and minds. we are more attuned to one another and that (I hope) will go along way toward smoothing out the teenage years. My kids are learning that family comes first.
 
Here's mine. ( not in any order)

Getting up late
Staying in PJ's
Family time
Having the freedom to teach and learn whatever we want.
 
Personalized education
Siblings are BFFs
Learning along with the kids (I'm much smarter now than I was when I finished college.)

We just love it, love it, love it.
 
What I like best is getting to see what the kids are learning.
and the discussions we get into.

Dh says:
"Nobody will care as much and it will never be as important to anybody (my childrens well being and education) as it is to my loving caring wife."

Jazz says:
"spending time with mom" (suck up.)

Dutch says:
"no homework. although it is all HOME work...so no work after I am done with school."

Alli says:
"that the boys are always here when I am home." (she wasn't hs...and she doesn't live here anymore and she gave me kind of a funny look when I asked her.) :)

So there ya go.
 
We don't have to dance to anyone else's drum. If my son's attention wanders, there's no pressure to medicate him. If another son is antsy like a maniac, I can toss him into the back yard rather than "discipline" him. When one is losing a tooth, we can suspend "regular" science and just read about teeth. If the same child is reading on 4th grade level and doing math on 1st grade level...well, we don't have to bother with grades.
 
So many choices!
1- Flexibility- since January a close family member battled with cancer and lost and my father had a heart attack. because i home school I was able to be there for my family more and not worry about where the kids would be. we were able to take our books with us and not worry about catching up even when we did get behind.
2- Self esteem- my kids have it again. when the public school year ended they both looked shell shocked. they were way to fragile to deal with how cruel kids could be, then they were labeled whiners and none of the teachers would take them seriously.

It's been 7 months and they still whine but are so much stronger than they were and getting stronger every day
 
being able to teach my children what I feel is important..... (life lessons)


flexablity.... being able to stop and spend time with daddy/hubby.... it will not always be this way!
 
All of the these things listed are why I plan on hs'ing next year if not sooner. Family time, flexibility, learning at our own pace, etc. Plus, my son is always exhausted and I would love for him (and all of us) to get enough sleep! He is a different child when he is rested.
 
Wow, My ds said last year in Legoland wiht his grandparents that the thing about homeschooling is " the learningnever ends.. you want to know something about something you research and find out about it"...
That pretty much says it, I see Homeschooling was , has been and will be, a way of teaching my kids that you can always keep on learning.
 
We're a military family, and for me the best part is that when we get orders and everyone I ever met wants to tell me horrible stories about the schools in our new area, I can "I don't care!" Really...before we decided to homeschool it was very stressful worrying about these things on top of having to move my kids in the middle of the school year. Now we just take a little break when we move, and then get on with school.
 
The best for me is watching Gracie get excited about learning. She is my only one I will be able to homeschool from the very begining and I love that she loves it. She says she never ever wants to go to school like her sister.
 
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