Homeschooling: Yes you can!
Julie over at Keepers at Home has a wonderful post on homeschooling, for those who keep making excuses and feel like they just can’t, for one reason or another.
I’ve heard many excuses why people can’t homeschool.
-I’m not smart enough. (I addressed that issue in one of my previous entries. What did we endure 12 years of school for, anyway?)
-I don’t think I could handle being around my children 24/7. I need ME time! (So, you would rather someone else raise your children 8+ hours a day for 5 days a week? Me time? You need THAT much Me time? Isn’t that a little selfish?)
-I can’t possibly teach them all they need to know in order to reach their dreams. (Correct. You can’t. But there are so many things out there to assist you in teaching, so you don’t have to worry about that!)
Of course, I do believe there are a few (very few) legit reasons why some people can’t homeschool, but most of the reasons I hear are ridiculous. I would much rather someone say, “I don’t want to homeschool,” than hear them make ridiculous, ill-informed excuses!
Ah, so controversial….
20080814 4:29 pm
I get all sorts of comments like that – a librarian at the allen parish library told me that she would love to homeschool, but her (get this) daughter doesn’t listen to her! So you are going to send your ill-behaved child off to someone else? Seems the solution would be – discipline your child and then homeschool.. That is crazy to me..
I agree – there are legit reasons to not homeschool – like when I was a single parent – I could not afford to stay home and homeschool my daughter.. I had no help other than my mom who also worked 8-5.. or a parent that is mentally challenged.. otherwise the only other choice would be that they dont really want to .. and perhaps some people aren’t willing to admit that.. I will admit that I was into that “i need my ‘me’ time” thing before I homeschooled..what I found though is that I really enjoyed spending more time with my kids, I PREFER they get such fundamental learning from me, and I am creative enough to find some “me” time and I dont need as much of that apart from my kids… they play while I sew or blog.. on occassion I need to go out to decompress – but it’s much less than I would’ve thought (perhaps a day a month gets me refreshed)..
I liken all this to what people say to me about having twins – people ask me all the time – how in the world do you do it?? Im like well, they are here so what choice do I have? Same with my daughter too -she’s here now so if I want to raise her right and give her a GOOD education – what choice do I have but find a way to give her the best I can.. and homeschooling is the best you can get.. I dont knock other people that just dont want to or genuinely can’t – but it’s been awesome for us and I suspect that if other people stopped saying why they can’t and try to see if they CAN, they would suprise themselves.
20080823 7:01 pm
Thank you for your blog! I just stumbled upon it…think I read one of your articles at Heart of th Matter…and got here from there.
I too, am a former homeschool student, now homeschooling my own two munchkins. Your articles are very encouraging and I am anxious to check out more of your blog.