Just another reason I’m grateful for homeschooling
April 19, 2007
Hubby usually works from home but today he had to go in. His absence this evening reminded me how grateful I am that I homeschool. Back in the ’school days’ I would have had to deal with the whole exhausting school night ordeal on my own. Hours of helping two kids with two different homework assignments, yelling over Adrian’s noise to try to answer questions while trying to get dinner on the table with the little one stuck on my leg, whining….
Nope, don’t miss it at all! Instead we listened to music, the girls helped with dinner and their brothers, we read together and had a lovely, relaxing evening.
July 13, 2007 at 12:55 pm
[...] The first thing I noticed here was that her husband’s concerns seemed to be about how homeschooling might affect his afterwork hours. Those concerns can easily be put to rest. Homeschooling can easily be accomplished by one parent so there’s no need for him to take on the responsibility of teacher if he doesn’t want to. Homeschool also offers ultimate flexibility in schedule. The kids can do their work whenever it best suits the family. If he wants evenings to be reserved for family time, they can just adjust their homeschool schedule to accomodate that. We actually had MORE family time in the evenings when we started homeschooling as I mentioned in this post. [...]