what made you home ed?

[nelix2000]

Since ds was born(he is 3) I have wanted to home ed. We are in Scotland and he is due to start Primary next year, we are expecting the paperwork sometime in december to register him. I don't know that I want to. It isn't about waiting another year(which we can becuase of his age), as I would feel this way then too, it just feels wrong.

I know family reaction would be negative. He goes to nursery and loves it, so part of me thinks I am doing it for me not him.

SO what made you take the plunge?

nelix2000 as you are in Scotland I'd say that Schoolhouse is the right support organisastion for you.

We found out about HE when our three children were so very unhappy in school.
We found out about HE, deregistered them immeadiately and have never looked back.
Ten years on, we've had a wonderful life and now they are all at Uni and FE college.

I'd love to be where you are right now, dearly wish we had never sent them to school in the first place, and oh wouldn't we have had such fun all the way through, instead of those wasted years in school.

thankyou! sounds like you made the right choice

Hi Nelix! I have three children, ages 5, 4 and 2.5 and we home-ed. The older two went to nursery briefly and although they seemed to enjoy some aspects of it, also they really started to change in attitude and personality because of the way they were treated by the other children. I suppose many people would see that as normal behavior for young children, but I think it is a shame we see children thrown into a group together and the inevitable pecking order that emerges as "normal" socializing which is healthy for children. Maybe they need to learn to "socialize" but not at the age of 3, IMO. So, since then none of them started school (I always felt 4 is ridiculously young to put a child in school all day anyway) and we are at no disadvantage for it. My 5 year old is reading and does basic maths and can write anything I ask him to. I think he learns a lot more for being at home, and we get to do so many other things because he isn't spending 6 hours in school to match the 30 minutes to an hour of "structured" learning we do at home. In other words, he gets to have a proper childhood climbing trees, playing in the garden, riding bikes, making train tracks, playing hide and seek with his brothers, catching caterpillars and waiting for them to turn into butterflies/moths, helping out in the vegetable garden...etc =) Those are the reasons we home-ed. Don't be afraid of trying it/putting off starting your LO in school just because other people/family think its strange or unusual, you can always decide to put him in school later. My husband's family are constantly asking him when the children are going to start school and he just says "maybe never!" :) What business is it of theirs anyway? Another interesting thing, Britain is one of the only countries to start children in school as young as we do, and yet we are at no advantage statistically speaking in terms of childrens' academic performance at a later age...