Are there any homeschoolers here?

I finished high school last year on my own with home school. I mean I know I am in my 30's but I did it better late then never.

We homeschool. Have done so since they were kindergardeners. Have two kids 14 and 11 and they are quite content to be homeschooled. They don't have to get up by a certain time and go where the teachers do not know them. No proficiency tests. Waiting for the bus is not on our schedule either. We go plenty of places to meet others and they have been content all along. We homeschoolers also get together and the kids have their time together to play and learn. So glad that you caved to your kid, it could have worked for you.

I homeschool our 4 children (all boys, between the ages of 2 and 10). My three older boys are all involved in sports and other activities, and they also have many neighborhood friends that come to our house almost daily, so I have no concerns at all about their social lives. In my opinion, homeschooling is much better for children then public school, where there are sometimes 30 children to a classroom. Since I began homeschooling my kids, our two older children have academically exceeded their grade levels. My oldest son, who should be in 5th grade, is now in 6th grade. My eight year old is also doing some subjects at an advanced level. It isn't easy sometimes, because it really does take A LOT of my time, but it is so worth it. It is definitely a labor of love.

We can't HS my stepkids 15&12 because of issues with mom. But I'm hoping to be able to HS DS when he's older. I don't mind the schools around here, but there's so much that I want him to learn about, and I see so much time and energy wasted in the schools. My SKids both have learning disabilities that weren't caught for a couple of years, and they had IEP's that helped them out, but they weren't required to learn everything they needed. If DS has any problems like that, I still want him to learn the material, it'll just take some extra work. And if he's ahead, which he seems to be so far, I don't want to have him held back to meet the requirements of those other kids. Plus, the socialization problems at schools seem to be really out of hand nowadays. I'd rather be able to socialize him with supervision that I trust more. It's a complicated situation...

My husband wants to homeschool our kids, we don't have any yet. I have a friend who does it, but she doens't do it alone. They do it as a community throug their church. Different parents handle different topics they are more experienced with and this allows them to teach children of different skill levels together. So her kids weren't alone, they were in a "classroom" Now that she has 6 kids (with 7 on the way) it was too much to maneuver, so her kids are in catholic school now. I don't plan on having 6 kids, only two. But I hope to have a home school community to help with. I am an engineer, and my husband is a physics major, so I know we can handle the science and math... and I can teach music. Maybe we'll get all the bases covered!

I homeschool my three children. We love it.

It is good for socialization to go to school but keep after her you can still do her good.

I'm currently in the planning stage to homeschool my oldest ds (and eventually my youngest). Since my oldest is almost 5 and reading at about a 1st grade level, doing basic addition, and speaking spanish that he picks up from his cartoons, I am more convinced that homeschooling is the right option for us. I love the time I get to spend with my kids and they get tons of interactions with other kids and adults in our day to day stuff, I don't worry about socialization. I do plan on giving them the option of public school around middle to high school, because I believe they will be secure enough in themselves to not allow too much peer pressure get to them.

I was homeschooled till i decided i would go to highschool(grade 9) I use the term lightly i wasn't school at all. me and my sibling just did what we wanted there was no lessons or anything. some might say this would have left me ill prepared for highschool? well they are wrong. i excell in all my classes and for the social seen i am deffiantely have a lot better social skills then a lot fo the kids in high school that have gone to school tehre whole lives.