Wow, I posted some questions in the different homeschool groups I'm apart of and the feedback has been awesome! It makes me so excited about homeschooling and I really feel that is what I need to do. The more I think about it, the more I realize that instead of sending my kids to learn in an artifiacial environment...an environment where they are not free to learn on their own schedule or decide what they should learn....they could be home learning as freely as they want.
I think about my own experience....and I loved school. But every time they assigned a book to read...I would find some way to get around the assignments and I wouldn't read the book. I read the books as an adult, on my own time and I loved them! But something about forcing me to read a book just really turned me off. What I was missing out on! But I think that is how school is. It isn't on your time table...what you are intersted in. They force things upon you and move you ahead before you are ready.
I look at my sisters and see where they were left behind. Unfortuatly homeschooling didn't work with them. But they have an entirely differnt family situation than our family. I want my girls to love learning and have thier minds opened up to all the possibilities out there! I love that they will be friends with kids of all ages. I am just so excited.
I think we are done having kids. I can just see us 10 years down the road as a homeschooling family. My girls will be so close. I won't lose that relationship with them when they turn into teenagers. Homeschooling requires so much personal sacrifice (as I am sometimes a very selfish and lazy person). But isn't that what being a parent is all about? I would rather sacrifice what I want (initally...because I think over time it won't be a sacrifice) and really give my kids everything and let them learn and explore on such a greater level than ever before. And I know that watching my kids learn and being able to learn and explore with them...how AWESOME!
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