Reasons for home-edding!

[Didylicious]

I can think of a few reasons to home-ed but are these good enough?!

1 I want to spend time with my kids and resent having to give them over to the school every day

2 It's a long walk to school (1.5 miles - so I do 6 miles a day currently and if my younger child starts on half days in sept - when my baby will be 3m old, I will havea to walk 9 miles a day - there and back 3 X). I feel I waste a LOT of time walking.

3 it's nicer for the kids to be together rather than segregated into age-groups at school.

4 I can teach the kids what they'd like to learn, when they'd like to learn it!

5 my 5y old tells me most of school is boring.... that doesn't make me feel good that I send her somewhere to be bored several hours a day.

6 I'll be honest - I don't really like to conform - I hate uniform and dressing my kids in it - they are individuals!

I'm sure there's more - but does it look like I'm being selfish wanting to home-ed my kids?

I have ordered a couple of books to read over the holiday's but I really need to also convince my husband that home education can be better for our kids than school. At the moment he thinks If I were to take them out of school and he, I would be mucking up their lives!

I Home Ed my two children aged 4 girl and 5 boy. It is one of the best decisions I have ever made, The best thing is that you get to use all the facilities of this country ie museums, parks, shopping, everything, when they are quiet so your children learn much more.

I am disappointed that so many people have given oppinions here without actually knowing anything about Home ed.

So please look no further here and ask advice from people who have already taken the leap.

Top book " Unschooling handbook.

Goodluck
Julia

I have home edded both of my children throughout their lives, now aged 22 and 12. It was a life changing decision and in many ways has defined our lives - completely for the better. The people I have met along the way have become my closest friends and home edders as a group are some of the nicest people I have come across.

You will never regret being at home with your children, being privileged to be the one guiding them, assisting them to learn the things they need to know and facilitating their interests. It leads to a closeness in the family group that school attending families can only dream about.

Your reasons are completely good ones, because they are yours. Home education is legally completely equal with school, you don't have to justify your decision to anyone. You do what you feel is the best for your children.