Home schooling! -Discuss

[pinkdolly]

Hello everyone,
I am 25 year old women with 2 girls, Zoe will be 4 in June and Sophie will be 3 in August. I am 17 weeks pg with my 3rd.
I have never planned to send my children to school as I personally feel that the girls will get a benifit a lot more from being at home with me.
My DH is totally with me on this so i'm well supported.
I know this is a very emotive subject and would really be interested to hear your views, whether for or against.
Also any experiences (bad or good) would be interested in hearing all the details. Thanx Guys!

Good point about the socialising jenk. At school people are encouraged to stay with their own gender and in their own year. I found it so uplifting to see a bunch of home ed kids of all ages hanging out together and playing a football match. It seemed so much more natural. Also they don't have the shuffling communication barriers with adults which I notice in the majority of school kids.

Agree with you there spidermama, we have hooked up with a few families who home ed, most of them are teenagers but they welcome DS and play games with him theres none of the "im too cool to play with a younger kid" from them-its really nice to see,also both girls and boys of all ages play and socialise together and thats nice also.

spidermama - I went to school in a very nice area and still got pushed off a wall backwards and hit my head, got beat up etc. I'm def. homeschooling. I would be interested to know where you found the research that showed socialisation to be a non-issue. I believe it is too, but would like to have some evidence to pull out when people tell me my son will be a loner if I homeschool!

beartime most of my info has come from Education Otherwise or families I've met as a result of eo. Their yahoo group is a great source of support and info.

Sorry you had such a crap time at school by the way. There certainly is a lot of it about.

thanks - I'll have a look

Sorry! Don't have time to read everything but wonderful news. I hope to take Emily to London and kidscape next month. I will post later. Thank you all so very much for your input . It really does help. For the first time in years, I don't feel ON MY OWN!!!!