I know that there are things that you swear you'll never do... I remember swearing up and down that I would never cloth diaper my kids because I thought what a huge mess and I didn't want my kids constantly smelling badly! Hahhaa... we've been clothing diapering for awhile now. I was pretty dead set on never homeschooling my kids too... but that is also seeming like something that we are going to actually do and will probably love.
My sister home schools her kids and I've known a hand full of them and I could always tell who was and who wasn't.... the ones that were socially awkward definitely were. I never understood why you would want to do that but now as a parent its definitely becoming more and more clear. Because I have the luxury of staying home with them all day every day when they're gone I feel like I miss out on so much. And to send them to school.... that's such a long time to not be with your kids. And you don't know what happens at school and what they're learning and what other kids are teaching them. I don't by any means want to shelter them, but there is just a lot of things that go on at school that doesn't need it. I am carpooling with another girl from symphonette and she was telling me that her poor daughter gets bullied and has been bullied ever since she started school... how is that right? It was heartbreaking just listening to her describe the types of things that they're working through year after year.
I know that we are obviously educating him at home now, and if we are thinking of sending him to preschool now is the time I would have to start researching schools and stuff... but really preschool is just for social interaction. They don't teach them anything there... and from the sounds of it it sounds like he is already doing what they do in kindergarden (which they start at 5!). I have heard that there are home school groups in the Portage area... and I wouldn't mind getting him in something like that. That way he still has the social interaction and I would be able to teach him.
I have been praying a lot about this and I've been listening and looking for answers to what is going to be best. I will definitely keep an open mind about it, but I just can't imagine sending my kid to school thinking that he is going to be bullied or threatened. I know that this doesn't happen to every kid because my experience with school wasn't bad at all. On the other hand I know that Holly's was.
There is just so much to consider. I want them to have all the opportunities possible to grow but at what expense do I allow that? I sometimes have to check to make sure that I'm not doing things for selfish reasons (because I would miss them or something like that) but I think that these are legit reasons.
I am still going to continue to pray about it, but I think that its becoming more and more clear. I feel more at peace with the idea of home schooling and I know that God would provide me with the resources that I would need to make it successful.
JVG
PS Gaetan rocked his mechanics class! 92 on the final and an A in the class... of course he was the class high :)
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