my experience

It's obvious that I'm super excited about this whole homeschooling adventure that we are embarking upon. However I want to be sensitive to those who have not chosen this way of life. Do not allow my excitement and fervor in this adventure cause you to feel you need to defend how you have chosen to school your children. I am not sharing my excitement to disuade anyone off the path they have chosen!

I liken it to my cloth-diapering experience. I LOVED cloth diapering. I talked about it a lot and shared a lot of knowledge w/ many friends and wished more people felt the same as I did. However I never wanted to "put it upon" anyone else or make them feel that they were doing their children or the environment a disservice by not "being like me". I feel the same way about homeschooling. I'm excited about it and so I'm going to talk about it a lot - honestly hoping to encourage others to look into it for themselves. BUT in the end a persons decision to homeschool or not is their own and I do not look down upon anyone because they have made a different decision than I have.

So if that is you my friend keep coming back to my blog and read about my experience remembering that it is what it is: my experience!

For additional reading on education (whether in a home atmosphere or classroom) check out For The Children's Sake (Foundations of Education For Home And School) by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. I'm only on Chapter 2 but I am finding it a wonderful read so far - I believe it would benefit both the parent who wishes to homeschool, the parent who hasn't decided and the parent who has chosen a public or private education.