Comments on: Reprise: Delicious and Nutritious

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:08:02 +0000

Here via Nettacow’s link. What a great article. Our little guy is 19 months and we’ll be thinking about/praying about/discussing this for a while to come. We have many options in our area and are lucky to have them, but homeschooling really seems to be calling me Really well thought out, good responses to those who do not know better!

Heather

By: Lenetta @ Nettacow

Lenetta @ Nettacow — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:29:27 +0000

I linked to this here(had to look it up by the key word "snarky" :>)) and also linked to it on my weekly roundup. I saw a portion on a parenting e-list with a link to the full post - the first one, I'm pretty sure - and that's what kindled my desire to homeschool (even though I didn't have any kids yet!). I also just realized that yours is the first blog I ever read. Wow! Anyway, thanks!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:11:20 +0000

I love it! I totally agree. I was homeschooled from day one (my mother decided to homeschool me when I was two). That was well over 20 years ago. Boy, oh boy, we stuck out like sore thumbs. People stopped us in the grocery store and asked why we weren’t in school! We answered questions like these all the time. We finally made up a school name for ourselves so we could tell people what school we went to when people asked just to avoid the questions! I am so glad homeschooling is growing in popularity and understanding. I am looking forward to “officially” homeschooling my daughter.

One of the arguments I hear that makes me mad is that Christian children should be in school so that they can be “witnesses” to the world. Oh yesh, I need to send my 6 year old off to a school full of unbelieving people so that she can convince them that God made the world. Even high school kids are often so emotionally needy and confused that they are not ready to stand up to their peers, let alone convert them to Christianity. Yes, we should be loving people and meeting people and blessing people, etc. etc., but we are to be examples to OUR kids and doing these things along side them until they can do them on their own.

Oh, and Raymond Moore wrote some terrific books with some amazing studies in them, even as old as they are, that are very encouraging. “Homeschool Burnout” is the best.

By: heather g

heather g — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:04:07 +0000

loved this–amen and amen.

By: Adventures in Lakeschooling

Adventures in Lakeschooling — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:23 +0000

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By: Joe and Jean

Joe and Jean — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:57:55 +0000

Thank you for articulating this. I started writing my own answers to these questions and found a link to your piece.

My own frustration with being asked these questions is the insinuation that I haven’t done my research, that I’m negligent or naive. The opposite is true! The irony with this kind of scrutiny is that the most hands-off parents and the parents who are not involved in their children’s educations put their kids in public schools, they would never sign up for homeschooling!

By: Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:28:30 +0000

You’re right: if the skeptics can’t come up with something better than the socialization thing, we’re going to have to help them out. My kids STINK at filling in those little ovals all the way on Scan-tron forms.