Posted on 08/31/2010 11:18:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
When were you raised? It was a lot easier to raise kids right thirty years ago and let them go to the local government schools. A lot harder now.
Thanks for all the responses - and in the interest of peace and understanding - I suspend all arguing. I can’t change minds, takes too much time and resolves nothing.
I have plenty of homeschooling friends that I see eye to eye with, plenty of private and public school friends - and we are all raising our kids with similar values but with different rules. I’m sure they will all turn out fine. Eventually our kids leave us and need to be prepared to make decisions, take the lumps, and be productive and happy adults.
Having a sense of humor is a must with me, if I didn’t laugh at some of the bonehead things my kids do - I’d probably explode. My husband is the same. Our kids are free range chickens for the most part and are friendly, out going and happy. I couldn’t ask for more.
Twink - Good Luck with your 4 girls! My daughter is 12 and has NO interest is boys - I was a totally different kid so I am counting my lucky stars. I’m sure there will be plenty of cleaning the shootgun at the kitchen table in the future - but I am holding on to these “kid days” as long as I can.
My Best to all......
You have some male rub their crotch in your face and see how you like it.
Perhaps you would like a male to rub his crotch in your face?
Me also.
We hear a lot from the home school lobby that public schools are prisons, Lord of the Flies, etc etc. It doesn’t help their cause since most people know this isn’t true of most schools. I think if people choose to home school they are to be applauded, they don’t need to justify their decision by overblowing the problems in public schools.
I apologize for my “Lord of the Flies” comment. Let me restate. The public schools I have been involved in have been like “Lord of the Flies”. Generalizations are never a good idea and I am sorry.
Thank you for that. You seem like a logical person who is passionate about home schooling. I applaud that. There are some on FR, however, who simply use any opportunity to paint every school with a broad brush.
As for home schooling, you go girl! The majority of home schooled kids I’ve known thru the years have been bright and articulate and gone on to very good things. I had a few in class when I taught school in TX who had been pulled out for a year of *home schooling* who came back and had clearly done nothing for that year. But in those cases there was no parent at home and one was simply used to baby sit her new sibling. Far different from what most home school parents are doing.
No - I wouldnt. Still over the top to expel the kid from school.
I would like to suspend all arguing too. I am sorry for offending you. I sincerely hope you have a blessed day!
I apologize for any comments on this thread that have offended you. Our past experiences affect our parenting. I want to keep my children safe from some of the experiences I had as a teen. They do have friends, freedom and responsibilites. I trust them. I don’t however trust the “world” so to speak.
It sounds as if you have raised wonderful children. My purpose on this thread was not to demean anyone else’s parenting. I am sure you are a wonderful mother. Many blessings!
Thank you for a true Christian witness. I need to remember that myself, it’s too easy to get into arguments here. God bless you.
Thank you. If only I could remember my Christian witness before I opened my mouth the first time. Of course none of us are perfect or we wouldn’t need Jesus at all. :)
In the words of the wise Marilla (Anne of Green Gables), “Good behavior in the first place is better than theatrical apologies afterward”.
Blessings!
LOl thanks for the quote, I had never heard it but I need to write it down! :)
You are welcome. If you haven’t seen the movie, you must!!! It is wonderful!
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