{"id":10389,"date":"2011-03-11T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/11\/to-homeschool-or-to-dont-er-somethin"},"modified":"2011-03-11T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:01:00","slug":"to-homeschool-or-to-dont-er-somethin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2011\/03\/11\/to-homeschool-or-to-dont-er-somethin\/","title":{"rendered":"To homeschool or to don’t (er somethin’)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been thinking and researching a bit about homeschooling. Yes, I’m one of those nuts who thinks about staying with her kids 24\/7 at the expense of her inner sanity and outer beauty (is it just me or do kids seem to have an affect on your outer beauty?).<\/p>\n

A few homeschooling pros:<\/p>\n

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  1. You know what they’re learning (important as public curriculum has taken some interesting shifts)<\/li>\n
  2. You have some control over what they’re learning (unless they’re learning<\/span> your bad habits).<\/li>\n
  3. Child has the opportunity to see the parent as a life teacher and not just a lame-o.<\/li>\n
  4. Cuts down on inappropriate (yet semi-functional for crowd control alone) bullying, teasing and competition. (“I’m bigger than you are, dork sister, cuz<\/span><\/span> you’re only a mere kindergartner<\/span>!”)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And a few cons:<\/p>\n

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    1. You can’t get away from your kids (Is that a problem? – rips out half a head of hair)<\/li>\n
    2. You are the teacher (please, no spitballs) so if you don’t prepare – no one else is your backup.<\/li>\n
    3. Your weak subject is your kid’s weak subject (Oh Matthew, the Math you would be teaching to our kids).<\/li>\n
    4. Social functioning needs to be higher than the “weird kids” out there. (Unless your kids are the weird ones. Then it needs to just be higher. — being silly here.)<\/li>\n
    5. The constant fear of “is this enough so they’ll be considered passing?”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Now don’t you worry yourself. Just because I listed more cons than pros doesn’t mean there are more cons than pros… I hope (wink).<\/p>\n

      Just word-vomiting<\/span> about homeschooling thoughts.<\/p>\n

      [the giant hook comes out and rips her from the stage.]<\/p>\n

      Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Been thinking and researching a bit about homeschooling. Yes, I’m one of those nuts who thinks about staying with her kids 24\/7 at the expense of her inner sanity and outer beauty (is it just me or do kids seem to have an affect on your outer beauty?). A few homeschooling pros: You know what… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-mom","category-homeschooling","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}