Ladybug, yes I'm really lucky in that my DH & I can afford for me to never have to work again and we own our own home (huge mortgage though in saying that!!!!). So I'm in the position to be able to choose whether our kids go to school or home education. I understand not everyone has that 'choice' so I feel very lucky.
Kuraiza, yep there are a lot of people out there who have plenty to say about home education/unschooling whatever you want to call it, but they don't really know much about it. I didn't either until I started researching it at the beginning of this year and subscribed to various websites and magazines and forums and started chatting to people and realised 'wow these people really REALLY care about their children's' educations!!!'. It's so sad that majority of society assume that people who home educate are 'neglecting' our kids or something. When it's the total opposite. Home educators REALLY care.
I've already met a few homeschooling families at a workshop we did in a park with my local group and they were so lovely!!! It's so exciting to know that I don't have to send my kids off to school and miss a HUGE part of their growing up.... I also don't want teachers and school kids having great influences on my kids because that is what happens in schools. Whereas for us, we want to be the greatest influence on our kids
I also think it's totally empowering to be different to what the majority do.....
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