We homeschool our kids. And when I say "we" I mean it in the same sense that women who are kind enough to say "we are pregnant" do to include the father. There is absolutely no we in pregnancy! That is the biggest load of poo ever stated. We do not feel like puking our guts out 24 hours a day for 10 months. We do not have heartburn and 50 pounds of weight gain and sore feet and tired backs. We do not get hemorrhoids. We are not utterly exhausted from growing an entire person inside our uterus meanwhile denied sleep because nausea, baby hiccups and somersaults and lashings of the kidney bladder and ribcage keep us up at night!
We were never pregnant! I was.
Right.
So yeah, we homeschool our kids. I can't really imagine doing it any other way. They belong at home with me. So that's what we do.
I get asked a lot why we made that decision. There are so many reasons for doing what we do, it's hard to come up with a quick answer. I like my kids. I like having them home with me. I don't feel like at age five or six I am ready to hand them over for eight hours a day for the next 13 years. And, perhaps most importantly--- I believe I can do better and have more to offer than a school system. There are PLENTY of other reason's too. That was just the short one.
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