[Wiser now]

Here we go with that silly shibboleth, "home schooled kids aren't developing socialization skills"! This asks us to believe that home schooled kids have no siblings with whom to interact and communicate, no neighbors with whom they can play and no play equipment in the yard, no parents to teach them respect for others, etc. I'm sick of it. As for Mom getting in over her head, there is nothing wrong with Grandpa teaching trig when the time comes.

[AnAmericanMother]

As for Mom getting in over her head, there is nothing wrong with Grandpa teaching trig when the time comes.

Amen and amen! My husband and I share homework and exam preparation duties for our daughter (just because she's in school doesn't mean she stops learning when she gets home!) I am more than competent to teach English lit., American and European History, grammar, and rhetoric, but I can barely balance my checkbook. My husband is a Ga. Tech graduate in chemistry ("MIT - the Georgia Tech of the North") so he takes over for the sciences and all higher mathematics (as in "higher than 2 + 2"). She is studying Spanish (I mean, really, she has an in-house teacher for Latin, Greek, German, and Scots Gaelic, and she goes and chooses to study Spanish!) but I am actually able to assist her materially since it's a Romance language and the Latin cognates are all over the place. Don't ask me about endings or conjugations though!