Hey everyone! Welcome to the blog! I am so glad that you are here. This blog is going to be mainly about homeschooling. I love homeschooling and I want to help other families who are homeschooling or thinking about homeschooling to love it too! I will probably sprinkle in a few other topics here and there, but it will be mostly homeschooling/education related. About Me Let me start off by telling you about me! I am a sister in Christ first and foremost, a wife second, and a mom third. I am, as of this date, 43 years old, been married for 22 years and have 3 kids. And if you are wondering what I look like, well that’s me. My School Career
I will say that I was NOT homeschooled, I will be the first to admit that I was one of those people who thought kids who were homeschooled were weird. But as an adult and looking back at my “school career” I can honestly say that I knew I wanted to homeschool my kids. I will tell you a brief history about my school career, I will stick with high school, but what I am about to say pretty much can be related to elementary and middle school. I went to high school from 1994-1998. I had a horrible experience. I was bullied left and right, constantly was in physical fights and I literally didn’t really have any friends and the one friend who I thought was my friend, turned out to be a bad friend. I was called everything under the sun, a slut, a loser and not to mention that kids would make fun of me because my mom was disabled. It was just horrible. It was so bad that when you are walking in graduation to get your piece of paper saying you got your diploma, the other kids would cheer and stuff like that. Well not in my case, no one in my class said a word when my name was called, I walked to that stage and the whole room stayed silent, you could hear a pin drop. Why Homeschool? Well, if you can’t guess from my previous paragraph I decided to homeschool my kids because of the horrible experience I had in school. I can honestly say that I would have been a straight A student, well maybe an A/B student if I didn’t have the constant bullying and constantly have to watch my back. So, I wanted my kids to have the best possible chance to get a good education without the worry of bullying. Where It Started… I enrolled my kids into a virtual school, a public school done at home. It worked great for my older two kids. One decided to give our local high school a try when it came for her to enter high school, but she eventually went back to an online school to graduate and my other daughter will be graduating in 2024. When my son was at the age to enter school, I enrolled him into the virtual school just like I did with the other two. But problems started to come up that I didn’t experience with my daughters. My son had trouble reading and yes, he was on an IEP but they wanted him to go to the third grade knowing he couldn’t read and he wouldn’t be able to pass the reading state test that 3rd graders had to take and they wouldn’t let him have someone give him the test one on one. So, I pulled him out and started to traditionally homeschool him. Presently…. He is still homeschooled and is about to start the 9th grade. I tailored his education to fit his needs, didn’t force him to learn something that his brain wasn’t ready to learn and I am happy to report that he is doing great! Conclusion In the beginning I wasn’t a fan of homeschooling, as a public-school kid I thought homeschoolers were weird, but as soon as I saw the face of my first born, my school career flashed before my eyes, and I knew that I wanted my kids to do school from home. There were and are many obstacles, but I wouldn’t change my decision for the world. |
Hi! I'm Robin. I am a sister in Christ, a wife second, and a homeschooling mom third.
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