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nightmare sasuke:

--- Quote from: prarrydog ---I have a daughter who is starting school this year and a wife who is a stay at home mom and am wondering if anyone has opinions or experience with home schooling (pros, cons, etc.).   Love to hear from you.  Thanks.
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How old is your daughter? What grade would she be going into?

prarrydog:
Again I appreciate all of the input.  My daughter is 5 and would be starting kindergarten this year.  The more I research this the more I think we are going to home school.  The pros seem to out weigh the cons.  Apparantly here in Canada there is no cost involved either.  You submit receipts and the government pays back for books, swimming lessons, dance classes, trips to the zoo, museum etc.  Added bonus.  I was also told by the home schooling board that the first 3 years are not as regimented as you might think.  They said that the teaching just sorta blends in with every day life.  We'll see.  We are actually getting pretty pumped about it now.  Thanks again everyone and if anyone has anything else to add feel free.

buddyjc:
I'm moving to Canada!  :)

Brian

joyful1:
Prarrydog-
Of course, like anything else, the Spirit of Truth will guide you....for us the experience of homeschooling was wonderful!  I wouldn't have traded the moment my children learned to read or painted their first sunrise or solved their first Algebra problem....for all the tea in China!  We can honestly say that the four of our seven that stayed in homeschool through grade 12 are better adjusted socially, better educated, more trustworthy and more loving than the ones that just "had to go to public school" in high school.  The reason for it is really no great mystery....there simply was not enough TIME in the day to communicate with the ones in public school.  They were always in "school" where they were "learning" to perfect the art of rebellion.  Our greatest heart aches stemmed from their "learning" while in an atmosphere of rebels. To this day, we are all reaping the wages of those experiments with public school.  The sports, activities, science labs, etc. were nice, but would I have traded them for a closer walk with my other three children? In a heart beat!
joyful1

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