Why Do I Homeschool

I get asked this question alot, both by other homeschooling moms and non homeschoolers. For us we were brought to homeschooling with a bit of trauma. My oldest, Bethany, has some challenges. School in the first 30 days of 1st grade was horrible. She had headaches, threw up and cried every day. This was not my happy social child... this was a living nightmare with her sanity at stake. My son also at this time who was in Kindergarten was having some issues, within the first 30 days of school the teacher felt hed be held back... that to me was an issue. You cannot know in 30 days that a child is going to fail. We switched to private school in the small town that we had moved from a few years earlier. That was a good fit but the drive proved to be too much... especially when it snowed. So about 4 yrs ago at Christmas break we didnt send the kids back to school. I have loved every minute of it since! Its a job no doubt but its something that we all love. We drift in and out of different homeschooling styles and that works for us. This year the kids are 5th and 3rd grade and we are doing alot of litature work. Last year we did an online curriculum. We have bookshelves upon bookshelves of books and games. We spend cold rainy days curled up reading books and playing games and gorgerous sunny days playing outside. We go to parks for nature, we plant gardens for science, we cook for fractions and we help other to learn about community. We live life every day and feel very blessed to have this life.

Each day is different and a blessing!