To the Mom Considering Home Education
Growing up as a home school kid in the 90's, "regular" school kids often voiced either their jealousy or genuine curiosity. "Do you get to sleep in ? What about snow days? Do you spend the day in your pajamas?? Your mom is your teacher?! Now that I am a home school mom the opinions and questions are a bit different. " Oh I could never do that!" and "W hen are you going to send your kids to real school ?" And my favorite..." How do you make sure your kids don't turn out weird ?" We'll talk weird in a moment but for now allow me to address the first statement. 1) When a fellow mom mentions that she could never home educate... Pardon my snarkiness, (all these thoughts truly are coming from a place of love) but yeah, I categorically disagree. I've heard too many stories and seen too much evidence. I feel the need to even post on this because I believe there are a lot of moms out there that may want to give it a try but are ...