I can think of a few reasons to home-ed but are these good enough?!
1 I want to spend time with my kids and resent having to give them over to the school every day
2 It's a long walk to school (1.5 miles - so I do 6 miles a day currently and if my younger child starts on half days in sept - when my baby will be 3m old, I will havea to walk 9 miles a day - there and back 3 X). I feel I waste a LOT of time walking.
3 it's nicer for the kids to be together rather than segregated into age-groups at school.
4 I can teach the kids what they'd like to learn, when they'd like to learn it!
5 my 5y old tells me most of school is boring.... that doesn't make me feel good that I send her somewhere to be bored several hours a day.
6 I'll be honest - I don't really like to conform - I hate uniform and dressing my kids in it - they are individuals!
I'm sure there's more - but does it look like I'm being selfish wanting to home-ed my kids?
I have ordered a couple of books to read over the holiday's but I really need to also convince my husband that home education can be better for our kids than school. At the moment he thinks If I were to take them out of school and he, I would be mucking up their lives!
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Reasons for home-edding!
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Didylicious · 14/12/2007 15:56
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