I managed to keep up with blogging while moving interstate and living in apartments but since moving into our home I haven’t kept up with anything online. So Your Turn! is a little late but here is another one…
Your Turn! Were you homeschooled?
If so, please share of your homeschooled experience. If not, you can share your schooling experience anyway.
As usual, either post a comment here or post a link to your own blog where you might have posted on this issue previously.
Nope I wasn’t. Didn’t even really think of it until I met my hubby and he wanted to homeschool the kids, because he was homeschooled in his last few years.
My mother homeschooled me in HOME-EC – I learned to cook, and sew and keep house.
I learned to keep a checkbook.
My dad taught me to fix my bike.
Mum also taught me to read before I went to school… but I still spent 6 hours a day incarserated behind a desk, chained to the teacher and the fellow students….
I was homeschooled for the last year of my schooling. however i was involved for 2-3 years prior as i assisted my parents to setup a christian school
i am so glad i had that year. It gives me a uinderstanding of why my kids are doing.
No. I attended public school and I did not enjoy it. We did move several times and where one school would challenge me to learn, another one was behind and so I lost my drive and study skills. By the time I went to college – studying wasn’t a necessary tool I had sharpened. This made college tough for me and I felt I did not retrieve what I learned. I memorized for tests but then the info was gone. Now, I love homeschooling my daughter. I see the freedom in it and I see the potential to make sure she is learning and being challenged (while not going beyond her understanding – there were times I memorized things w/out fully comprehending).
Great post!
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No, I wasn’t homeschooled. I went to a small church school. I worked in a couple of christian schools before I was married, wearing several different hats.
My dad would have loved to have homeschooled us. He heard about it during a visit to the States when I was about 15. My mum was apprehensive as there was no support like there is today, so it never happened. A few years later, we lived in a different part of the country and my mum did homeschool my brother for one year – it changed our brother (for the better) and set him on a course for his life.
So though I wasn’t homeschooled it was a concept that was discussed in our home.
Belinda
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No, I wasn’t homeschooled and I really don’t think that my mum could have coped with that! I was bought up in a non christian home, although my dad was saved later on in life. I have positive memories of “some” parts of my school days. I attended a church of England school and “religion” was a big part of that. We attended church weekly and I loved it! When I began to search for my own faith it was those childhood memories that came flooding back and helped me cement my decision. I had two teachers that were genuine christians and they made a big impact on me personally.
I honestly think that If I had homeschooled in the environment that was my home then I wouldn’t have been happy. For me, school was probably best.
Trust me to come up with a different kind of response!
This is our tenth year of homeschooling and I love it! and hopefully my kids do too 🙂
No, I wasn’t homeschooled, and I don’t think that I would have liked to have spent all day at home with my mum….not back them…she is a much softer person nowadays…probably because her kids are all long gone and married 😉
For the most I enjoyed going to school.
Lisa
No, I wasn’t homeschooled, but looking back I wish I was. I seemed to have a natural bent (like most kids 😉 if given the chance) to self teaching. I took up my interests and taught myself to sew, and was intensely interested in gardening, neither of which my mother had any inclination towards. I love learning and love the freedom I now have as a stay at home mum to pursue any interest I have.
As a teenager I was very anti homeschooling. We had a homeschooling family in our church and I just never could understand them, but you know 10 years down the track, there I was on the phone talking to the mother of this very family about the decision we’d made to homeschool! God’s providence is amazing!
I actually liked school – I had friends, and did ok academically, so I had no apparent reason to not like it. But looking back, it was really stunting for me when I compare what my dc have been able to achieve having been homeschooled. I also came out a raging feminist which is my greatest grief about school.
But thanks be to God that he has delivered me from that mindset, and now I am free to be the woman he intends – if I will just stop arking up so much and just let him get on with the remodelling job 🙄 .
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