anyone home-ed with a large family??

[educatingrita]

Hi all,
I have 4 kids and we are thinking of having another
I really am keen but worried about the home-ed stuff.
My youngest is 3 and eldest 13, so its getting pretty easy at the mo with the teaching side and im worried it will be impossible with a new baby in tow, let alone thru 4 month sof sickness etc.
Anyone else done it or got a large family and manage?

Thanks all x

I was all set to home ed this time last year but the main reason I bottled it was because I have four kids, including a baby, and there's just not the time in the day to do laundry, cooking, feeding, baby care and home ed in this household. I'm still so very, very tempted though.

There are plenty of people who do it. Are you on the EO mailing list? There'll be lots of people there in a similar position to you.

Being new to HE I have recently read through loads of websites and yahoo groups and one thing struck me is that there seems to be so many large families who HE.
Theres a lady in Kent with 5 girls from 20+ to 3.

I will ask my friend, she has 5 kids plus a step-son and she Home-eds. Her oldest is 10 (stepson is 13) and her youngest is only just one. She manages fine, they all love it, they attend home-ed groups and go on educational trips, it's not all sitting about indoors learning the boring way I think the great thing about home-edding is that you get the chance to go to all these places in the name od education

I think muddlepuddle is a great site too!

thanks will check the muddlepuddle site out

if you read around the blogring that's attached to the list that's attached to muddlepuddle (still with me? good!) there are several families with 4 children and a couple with more than that.

home page is blogring

I HEd my 3 children for a year abroad with a baby (10 months at the start) and it wasn't ideal - I ended up being the one to suffer because I didn't want the children to miss out. It was obviously fine when we were out and about but very tiring. Fortunately we were within walking distance of lots of free museums and a library so we'd take stuff out with us. It was harder than I thought, but maybe as a teacher I had the wrong expectations. I'd definitely HE ds who is dyslexic but as dd3 is now 2 it wouldn't really work.

I have 5 children aged 12, 10, ,6 , 3 and 10 months. I have home ed.ed through 3 babies and the first year of new baby is different- and challenging - but with a myriad of unexpected joys. I got through it by staying at home more - not a bad thing -lovely for the younger ones- doing "EDUCATION" at any time of day or week that worked;and having lower expectations - the tough time does pass and home eding a big family is fantastic- educationally and socially.

I don't know how you do this but a woman ta my church has 7 kids, oldest 14, youngest 16 months and she home eds all of them.

hi I have three boys under five. My first son is due to start in Sept. We thought of He & studied the pros & cons. We agree that He has got to be so much better but we decided that we should see how he gets on in reception yr first before making any final judgements. My youngest is ten months so my hands are full keeping him out of mischief! I really would love to hometeach my children as I feel disenchanted already with the govnt system. I have to admit my main concern is that I couldn't cope with the housework and teaching even though I am a sahm.

I've got 4 (would love to have more, even though my eldest can be 'difficult'). My 10 year old recently chose to return to school and my 11 year old is a bit of a headache and I'm still umming and ahhing about him, but I would still say go for it! I know quite a few larger than average families HE-ing (my mum jokes it's the in thing if you're HE-ing ;) and keeps pointing out that with a side extension we could squeeze in a few more).