Hello all, I've been lurking on these pages since the summer so thought it was about time I outed myself and as I am becoming increasingly obsessed with the idea of Home Educating my children (DS 2.8 and DD 6mo). There are some burning questions I am keen to ask all you experienced HEdders out there...
This will probably be the first of many posts but what I'm keen to know for starters is what you think it really takes to commit to autonomously home educating your children.
To give some back ground I've been a SAHM since DS was born and was a early years/KS1 teacher before that. TBH I dread the thought of going back to teaching and all the enormous energy it takes to plan, monitor and assess learning for 30 children all of which is sub optimal most of the time in terms of their individual needs. So much effort goes into bringing the world into the classroom and making learning vivid and close to real life as possible, but imo it's all a bit of a sham alot of the time. I'm coming round to the undestanding that it makes much more sense to just carry on living life together with my children and see their learning grow from living, which is what has happenend so far in the most amazing way.
BUT, am scared about what this means for me in the long term. I think we can carry on surviving on DH's income, but I don't want to rule out working completely in the future, just not sure what I would do or how to fit in working around homeschooling. Am I giving up my pension, seems a bit of a crazy thing to do in these times. Am also daunted about the responsibility of making such a decision on behalf of my children. What if we start and it's going great but then our financial situtation changes and I have to work, I would feel awful sending the children to school if they were loving HE.
Ooh, I could ramble and ramble, but I had better stop. So I'd be really keen to know do you feel you have sacrificed anything to HE, has it been worth it and how do you know you're really cut out for it?
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What does it really take to Home Ed?
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Rubimou · 09/11/2010 11:50
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