Deciding about home schooling....

I was delighted to receive a question asking what should someone sitting on the fence about homeschooling could do?
This was my reply.

I think that the next step is lots and lots of reading (hs for Dummies, and any books in that shelf!) and researching, until you are familiar with all the options.

Also it is a remarkably enabling thing to do - to go and find the local homeschool group and go to one of their play dates or group meetings and watch the children interact with each other and with their parents and talk to some of them.

That was for me, the most reassuring thing I could do.
My experience was that these children were boistrous, happy, sociable creatures who took a genuine delight in being with all the other kids without being conscious of any age/ race / abilities differences. They were polite, articulate and friendly.
I fell in love with the whole lot of them and as you know I am not much of a one for other people's kids.

I believe that in the bigger cities there are hundreds of groups and you are more than likely to find one that will suit your child's and your own needs. In the smaller towns you may find that you will have to travel to explorre the options. Later you can create your own group (if that is what you choose :))

Of course - you can join and keep reading my blog and I will eventually cover a lot of the usual questions.:)

****** !!*** I think perhaps the most important question to consider is what do you want for your child's education to do...equip him to be successfull, obviously. So what exactly is success? What does it take to be successful? What skills does he really need? What is the best way for him to get them?

How you answer these questions determines your method of education.