Do you have any regrets about homeschooling?

I currently have no regrets~today, lol! Sometimes I think "oh, am I screwing my kid up", but something always brings me to my senses like seeing how a PS child behaves or calling up a good friend who homeschools her kids, etc. I do have my days when I wonder, but I have no regrets if that makes sense.

Mine are still little, so no regrets yet. :) hopefully we won't have many.

Absolutley no regrets. Have homeschooled three. One is 26 now and is on his own and doing fine. The other two are still at home. My daughter is 14 and has written a book. The boy is 11 an still am not sure how he will turn out. Good thing we still have time. We get out and about enough. We interact all the time on the net, church, stores, the mall, there are homeschooling groups. So we have not socialization problems. Colleges and the armed forces are looking now for homeschooled kids. We look forward to those opportunities. We use Christian Liberty Academy Satellite School for our teaching. The have workbooks, scannable tests, teacher editions, gradecards, and a graduation at the end of 12th grade. We also have on line tutorials for things being studied too. Good luck with this. It is well worth it and be sure to appease the local school system with your notification. Also check out the Home School Legal Defense Fund...they help you if you run into any legal problems that sometimes occur. Good luck.

I am currently home schooling my two children and my only regret is that I ever put them in public school to begin with. I should have done it from day one and I think that we would be doing better than they are now. Kids are our responsibilities and yet we send them off at such a young age to be with total strangers that will spend more time with them than we will and will have so much influence on them. That is sad and yet as a society, we accept that.

This is my first year homeschooling, and I have to say it was the best thing my parents could have ever done for me. I was always a straight A student in school, but I felt that the teachers never gave the right attention to the students. Their method of teaching was like it was wrong to ask questions and such. I just never felt comfortable there. My parents have been told time and time again by people who actually work at the schools that it was the best decision they could have made. Apparently, the schools where I live are going down the hole!

I do have regrets, actually- and that is that I didn't acknowledge soon enough that it wasn't working for my oldest and I. I have a fwe kids 'round here, LOL, and the younger ones are all homeschooling. My oldest started school for the 1st time this year after several years of angst between us. I tried changing curriculums, changing the learning environment, and style, etc etc. I didn't want to put her in school because I was firmly convinced *every* family, parent/child partnership can homeschool. I have since changed me mind. My dd has done great this year, and our relationship is getting better.

I homeschooled through high school. The perks were that I graduated 2 years early - got to go to some college for free as a home schooled student (you can go for two years)...I missed not being able to go to a prom or be involved in the high school plays... but other than that, no regrets.

I started homeschool my older two later (6th grade & 4th grade) my ONLY regret is that I didn't start sooner. My now ex didn't agree with homeschooling & I wish I had put up a bigger argument (or just left him sooner!). As it was clearly better for our son & could have saved him so much frustration in public school. My daughter did do better in public school, so after 2 years with her home schooling she went back to public school. As long as you are prepared to change things when you see what does & doesn't work for your child, you'll do fine and she won't "miss" anything she truly needs.

My ONLY regret is that I didn't start doing it sooner. My oldest two kids went to public school up until half of 9th and 4th grades before we started homeschooling. This has been the most amazing experience for all of us and I just wish I had known about homeschooling sooner and not listened to close-minded people who were so negative about it.