Comments on: Your Turn! If your children have been to school, why did you bring them home?

By: HomeGrownKids

HomeGrownKids — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:57:19 +0000

Great comments everyone!
I was always under the false premise that everyone ‘had to go to school’. It was just ‘what you did’. But I did know that I wanted to keep my children home with me for as long as I could. Ah, I’m so thankful that we can legally and freely have our children home with us…I’m also so thankful to God who planted seeds of knowledge about homeschooling and gave me time to think about it all. 😛

Susan

By: Dianne-Bunny Trails

Dianne-Bunny Trails — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:21:53 +0000

We always knew we didn’t want our boys in public school in middle school/junior high. We though they’d attend a local Christian school, but that turned out to be cost prohibitive. Through a series of various paths, we ended out homeschooling.

We believe that both our boys would not have thrived nor been successful in the public school environment, and would very possibly have fallen through the cracks. We also didn’t feel they needed to be exposed to the peer pressure and other inappropriate things that often take place at that age and in that environment.

Our two boys are one year apart, grade-wise, so we brought our oldest son home in the fall of 2005 and our other son the next year. I’m now in the third year of homeschooling them.

If I had it to do over, I’d have homeschooled them from Day 1. But that’s okay. The Lord knew this is the path we’d take. 🙂

By: jen

jen — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:50:59 +0000

I brought My home schooler home this year. Hes 12. He has several learning difficulties and just wasnt learning much at school. Also the peer pressure was awful. I was fearful of what would happen if he were to go to high school next year. Hes a follower and was already getting into trouble at his little country school. Already hes improved both academically and behaviorally. jen's last blog post..2 weeks holidays :)

By: jacqui

jacqui — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:00:19 +0000

We bought our three school aged children home almost 10 years ago. Sarah, our eldest, was 12 at the time. The peer pressure that she experienced was awful. Boyfriends, fashion, like you one day and hate you the next, teasing about “bushy eyebrows” that resulted in her SHAVING them off!!! ahhh., it was pure torture for her and us.