School starts on September 8 here in the Peterson house. I am working on lesson plans and curriculum while my children are working on getting excited to start a new homeschooling year. Shut up, they are excited.
This being that time of year, I hear a lot of parents joyfully talk about the break they are soon to get when they drop their kids off at school after a long summer cooped up with them. I would be lying if I said there wasn’t a piece of me feeling just a little bit envious of the notion.
I know that homeschooling is not for everyone, but one thing I have learned since we started doing this is that homeschooling is not limited to families with 20 kids, prairie dresses and no television. There are so many different types of homeschoolers and just as many different reasons why people homeschool.
My homegirl and fellow homeschooling Mom, Deleise, has started a site for parent educators that you should check out. Her post about why her family chose this path lines up really well with why Eric and I chose to homeschool. I have often thought I would write about our reasons some day, but then Deleise pretty well summed it up for me so I figured I would copy off her paper.
Maybe I’ll get on the ball and write my own story, but right now I am all twisted up with deciding how to properly review “The Shack”. That will be posted on Monday. In the meantime, go check out Deleise.
Brandy @ my12hats says:
Thanks for this. Even though our daughter is a couple years away from starting school, her education has been a hot topic in our household the past couple weeks. I love to hear why people choose the programs they do. Good stuff. Good stuff.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
Brandy @ my12hats says:
P.S. Thanks for eating the sacrificial brownie for me today. You’re a true friend.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Fave Cousin GIna says:
“I know that homeschooling is not for everyone”…..can I get an AMEN!!! I get lots of kids who just aren’t great “home teachers”. You either got it or you don’t. For me I need a break from my child….or more than one break….can I have more than one break please. I love her to death, but she is a mini-me and there just can’t be two of us in a 30 foot perimeter.
I so hope Carlee is like Damon….hmmm, let me think about that one for a while…..
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Full of Joy says:
I didn’t know we were fellow homeschoolers! Oh, you are brave, I don’t even know how to review ‘The Shack’ where will you start, anxious to see what you thought…
August 24th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
deleise says:
Aw, thanks for the luv! My kids are excited too. Wish you were closer and we could lock them all in a room and have them teach each other.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am