[ValiantJoy07]

Originally Posted by Can'tTurnLeft

Read this. I'll be back later. http://www.homegrownlearners.com/hom...omeschool.html

Thank you for sharing that! That has to be one of the most encouraging things I have read in a while.

OP I struggle being a SAHM, it is what I always wanted to do - from a child I knew I wanted to be a Mom and stay home and raise them...I am now doing it nad it's hte hardest thing I have ever done- made harder I'm sure by varying factors I wasn't anticipating. I have really questioned and evaluated my desire to home school my kids. DH and I were home schooled in elementary and at points in the rest of our childhood. The biggest thing I have accepted is that it isn't for always, it is about what is best for each individual child from year to year. I'm not strapped in for the next 18 years or whatever.

It is a great and ideal fit for my oldest, so this year we're starting there. And the early years are awesome- they are so hungry to learn and book work should be so limited- it should be about experiencing the world and trying new things.

Really at any age, if a family has so much "book work" that they've become a hermit it's 1) because that's what they enjoy and desire or 2) because they have some thing off balance and the curriculum is too much on academics and not enough about the awesome enrichment opportunities that home schooling offers.

as you make these decisions.