Mommy Brain

Today is day one of Randi at I Have to Say‘s Back to Homeschooling Week. The topic for today is “What led to your decision to homeschool?”

Kevin and I knew we would homeschool our future children before we had even said “I do.” Neither Kevin nor I had great experiences with public school, and we knew that the atmosphere had gone downhill since our own school days. So I must say that the first reason was to protect our children from an atmosphere that we believe is not emotionally or physically safe. We want our children to be children, and it seems that many kids these days are growing up so fast, being exposed to many things that are inapproriate for their age. I have enough trouble with the things Natalie gets told by neighborhood children and her friend who goes to Christian school. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to have your kids at public school for six hours a day and then to have to counteract everything they are exposed to. I will say, though, that I know parents who are able to do exactly that very successfully; I just don’t think I could handle it.

After we started having kids and I began to read homeschooling books and resources, I was also convinced that homeschooling will give our children the best education possible. I had that opinion reinforced recently when I watched this 20/20 video on YouTube, called “Stupid in America.”

So there you have it. If you want to participate and write your own homeschooling story, be sure and sign the Mr. Linky at Randi’s blog.