I am continually reminded
why I homeschool and am reassured that I made the right choice. Don’t get me
wrong some days at home I want to pull my hair out, I lose patience, I get
frustrated, I get angry. It would be so much easier to put the kids on the bus
and send them to school. It would be so easy to let someone else teach the
kids. It would be so easy to have my days free of kids, have peace and quiet and not have to cook as
many meals. It would be so easy to just greet them as they come home at 4:30
each day. Easy is not why I chose to homeschool, I have many reasons, and
homechool is not easy! I love my kids and I care about them too much to let someone else teach them, influence them, and mold their little minds.
Time and time again the kids will go
places and be around other kids their age. Since homeschooling, they aren’t
around large groups of same age kids very often. Both Jake and Luke will tell
me they can’t believe how the kids act. They are wild, loud, out of control, immature, rude and very disrespectful to teachers or parents. Jayden has experienced this with kids her age too. And to think most of these
situations are coming from church groups. I can’t imagine what school groups
are like. When I am out in the general public, I observe kids and am saddened
by their behavior. Recently a group of girls around age 12-14 were “hanging
out”. They try to act so cool and big. They flaunt an attitude and use terrible
language. Kids have to put on such a front and act in a negative way to fit in. It is
sad what kids think they have to be in order to fit in with the cool crowd. I
love farm kids and country kids, not all of them, but majority of them were
raised by good people, hard working, church going, with good values. You can
just see a difference in these kids. Once again I am so glad my kids are not
being pressured and pushed into being something they are not. At home, they get
to just be themselves.
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