OK, so it appears I am now a home educator......AARRGGHHHHH!!!!!

[becaroo]

....I have been debating whethr to home educate my ds1 (6) for about 3 months now (some of you may reember my more hysterical threads on the subject!!!)

When it came time to sen my son to school this morning I just couldnt do it.....couldnt physically or emotionally or mentally do it.

So....so much for my plans to be really organised and have workbooks at the ready and lotsof ideas for projects!!!!

He has spent the morning watching animal programmes on dvd and when I got his baby brother to sleep we did some pages of our reading manual (toe by toe) but thats it!!!!

Am going out to town this afternoon to buy stationary supplies....is waterstones or WH smiths best for literacy and numeracy workbooks?

Oh, and somebody please come and calm me doen a bit - have spent hte whole morning hyperventillating!!!!

When do I need to tell school? Oh, god, I hope I am doing the right thing.......help!

Hi,
just have to say thankyou for sounding so +ve having taken the decision in sept for various circumstantial reasons to keep ds3 at home everything you describe through the process has occurred.I rushed out and bought the workbooks and panicked and hyperventilated!

Now having experienced the unwillingness on his part to respond to'formal' work we are coming out of a period of 'de-schooling'and I admit to just feeling my way day by day.
It is the family/both parental and sibling respons which is challenging!

As for legaity,there is much talk but no real precedent,and if a child is in the private sector for example there is no state/local reference??Bizarre.Anyway just wanted to salute some sound words!!!!

Thanks and good luck westmilf x