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...