Should i quit homeschooling

Will you be a homeschooler? Schools are closed, the kids are home, and you are now in charge of their education! Why do Homeschoolers Homeschool? But this was from people who decided to homeschool. Why Do You Homeschool? Crisis Learning We are in unprecedented times. What Will You Do? Just so you know, this is a safe place! But if you are on the fence, I have 5 reasons why you should quit homeschooling!

Good, whew, I thought it was just me! So here is reason 1 — time. A chance to run, play, build and create with other children. You can help your homeschooled children to find friends.

Yeah, you are right, maybe it is. But here is the thing, you decided to homeschool for a reason. If you truly feel that public school is best, talk to your kids if they are old enough. Get their opinion, what do they want? What they really want is to do the same projects as their friends. And that is a problem you can solve. See point above. And if public school ends up being the best decision for your family then go ahead and enroll. It does NOT make you a homeschool fraud.

I believe that each family including YOU! If it works, yay! It might just look different then you planned. This question comes up a lot. Often times I find that moms are asking the WRONG question when it comes to deciding to send their kids to public school or sticking to homeschooling. I shared my best advice in this video on what to do if your kids want to go to public school.

Getting answers to these questions can help you identify the real problem and come up with solutions. For the day. A week. Maybe even longer. I have a hard time remembering to take off the teacher hat and focus on being the mommy! So thank you for the reminder. Thank you, Monique! I too often get wound up over all that stuff and need to give myself permission to step back and give it a rest for a while.

Stopping by from the Mom Tested Family Approved homeschool hop! I found your blog through Pinterest and I am loving it! I am having a blast poking through it and reading some very helpful posts. Now I am wanting to homeschool my 2nd grader and kindergartener and preschooler currently for next year. I currently am supplementing their public education at home because this school is re teaching my oldest boy what he learned in kindergarten at his previous school! To keep him from falling behind and keep my other 2 where I want them at we work at home to boost their learning.

No homework from school so we have lots of time in the evening. They love working with me and I am feveriously working to map out our next year their first of homeschooling. Your blog has given much to soak in and contemplate and I am exceptionally grateful!!!! The book work will still be there. And it can wait. Found this on Pinterest and I was actually hoping you were going somewhere else with this post title. I will definitely agree with taking a break when needed and all, but it looks like my break from homeschooling will be a very long one as I return to work, so you can imagine I needed a different sort of post.

The 7th grader however…. I was so scared for him going back. However we would put our children in an alternative school district if re-entering public. Thanks again for sharing! Thank you for sharing, Chelle. You sound so much like me! I have continued to go back and forth with my son too. He went to middle school for 3 years but struggled last year, so this past year we pulled him and he did an online correspondence school for 9th grade.

I have been homeschooling more like unschooling my older son who is autistic and has several learning disorders and ADHD for the past almost four years and my younger son for two years. At the beginning of each year I make plans to do more learning together but by November I feel stressed out and not happy being with my own children and the rest of the year remains the same.

I felt like a failure big time and another set of tremendous guilt about sending my sons to school because one of the main reasons why is because I really wanted to pursue my career as an artist. I never blamed on my kids for my failure as an artist but it has been really hard mentally to gather my focus and energy to learn and pursue painting at home while we homeschool.

Is it ok to stop homeschooling while your kids have special needs and have been homeschooled for all these years? What would other moms think of my selfish decisions? Am I doing harm my kids by sending them to school?

Should I maybe stop complaining and start working harder to achieve both things, homeschooling and my art career because a mom should be able to do both, right? Am I sending my kids to school for wrong reasons? Do I need to try harder maybe? Maybe all o need to do is to change something so we can continue homeschooling?? We did find a good school for each boy and are going to have some visits to see if the school is a good match.

Believe me, it was hard to find an article that actually talks about quitting homeschooling!! Anyway, thank you for your honest sharing of your experience here. I feel a bit better about my decision after reading this and comments here too.

Thank you!! Hi Em, I do read the comments and thanks for sharing your heart. Sometimes that means adapting our approach or doing something differently. Erika, You seriously were the words I needed to read tonight. I knew the moment I got pregnant with my son, that I was going to homeschool. I had been homeschooled my entire learning life, with the exception of a single high school year where I felt I needed to know what the other world was like.

Needless to say I went right back home after that freshman year. The first year of homeschool I was elated, overly prepared, geared to make learning kindergarten easy on us both. It went. We both had good days and really bad days. My daughter not being able to do much as a toddler, made it please try harder than I planned.

Prayer just to make it through each day began to come like every other word from my mouth, but we made it through with excellent marks in state testing for the grade. I enrolled him into an charter from home school. One month in, I was devastated to realize we both hated the regulated pressures from a teacher whom we never saw and rarely spoke to, so back to all me it was.

Both my children enrolled in the city school with a request to transfer to the very small, public country school a few miles out side of town.

Fear is so much of the devil and I hate how it is one of the strongest tools used against a mother. My heart is not scared for my babies to do this big adventure, it is terrified of me.

Of who I am that reachex this point. My daughter is a bright shining light. So much so that she has the nickname firefly since her first year of life. She is already over the moon to meet new friends and learn. My son is hesitant. He knows there is a huge change coming and while excitement over new friends is present, he fears consequences from his actions.

Something that will be good for him in the long run. I do feel like the biggest failure. Thank you for writing this. Good for you for figuring out what was best for you and your home considering this.. I know a family going through the same thing. Your email address will not be published.

Comments We homeschooled last year when my oldest was in kindergarten. Hi Erika, I am so glad someone is talking about this.