Is separation anxiety a good enough reason to homeschool?

[TeamSleep]

My children are young Primary. They go to a lovely school and they are doing well generally but the drop offs in the morning are awful. There can’t stand separating from me. It’s so draining I just feel like I’m slowly breaking them and myself. I don’t feel comfortable home schooling and would much rather they go to school but equally I hate sending them into school every day when they find it so hard. I do work and I enjoy working but I don’t need to for financial reasons so that makes me feel incredibly guilty for not quitting my job and home schooling. I’m so confused. Has anyone else home schooled for this reason? Someone once said to me only home school if it’s your calling and that just keeps ringing in my head.

@eatdrinkandbemerry : Unless your able to homeschool indefinitely then your just going to have the same issues later on.

The OP's children are very young. It isn't abnormal for young children to want to be with someone who loves them. Young children grow up and become competent and confident. Most of them will feel secure enough to want to move away from their close relatives as they get older.

A few don't. Maybe you're right that they will never be ready, and they'll one day have to be pushed out of the nest even if it makes them unhappy. But why hasten that day? I mean, if I lived in a mill town during the Industrial Revolution and my children were destined to work in awful factory conditions some day, I wouldn't rush to send them to work at the earliest possible age on the grounds that life is miserable and they may as well get used to it! If the family could afford to live without their wage, I'd rather let them have their childhood before they went to the mill to suffer at a later age.

Not sure if you're still here OP but your kids are very young.
You don't really need to do that much with them at this age.
Teach them to read well and then they will have the skills to want to learn.
Teach them basic maths and then the rest will fall into place.
You're overthinking it.
Schools really don't do much more than that at their age, there's a lot of play involved and you can do that at home.
The only issue will be you probably won't be able to do your work as well as you have done as they will want your attention.

I home educated and it's a very large commitment. You have to be able to give them your full attention so not sure how work would come into it. I preferred working in the end and sent her to school.

You need a pedagogic reason to home educate, not separation anxiety. The local authority will ask for a report from you and you need to state reasons related to how it will benefit them educationally, or they could order your children to school.

Go to Education Otherwise website, it's really good.

@douglasadamswasright you don't need to state reasons for why you want to home educate, and the LA can't order children back to school if they don't like your reasons.
The only grounds the LA have for getting a school attendance order is if the education provided isn't suitable.
Home education is a parental right, you don't need to justify your choice to educated your child however you want.

@TeamSleep what did you decide OP? Hope all is well.

@picturethispatsy thanks for asking. I decided to keep them in school and things have improved a lot. They have the odd wobble but it’s the exception rather than the rule and things are a lot better. Would they still rather be at home? Yes definitely. But I’ve realised that’s not an option for us at the moment. Getting them to do their homework is hard enough. Huge respect to those who homeschool.