Boxes are good for the people you mention. On the other hand, my mother started using several subjects’ worth of box curriculum with my younger brothers and I think it was a bad thing compared to her carefully selecting different sources of curriculum as she did for me.
In addition as a mixed marriage we’d have trouble agreeing on any box, I think; I’m not likely to like Calvert, my husband wouldn’t be too pleased with Abeka, and who wants an explicitly secular curriculum?
You’re right, second generation homeschooling is very exciting. It’s great to say “Ok, here’s what your mom did, here’s what my mom did, what do we want to steal and what do we want to change?”
“Boxes are good for the people you mention.”
Yes, which just happen to be most folks who homeschool, LOL.
“...and who wants an explicitly secular curriculum?”
Not sure what you mean by “explicitly secular,” but if it means one that teaches math when the subject is math, and not religion, well, I'm raising my hand for that one!
“You’re right, second generation homeschooling is very exciting.”
I'm crossing my fingers that most folks who were homeschooled will take it to the next generation. From my own limited experience, it seems that most will. I know that both my sons want very much to homeschool their own children. There is a large homeschooled family that we know whose two oldest daughters are off to college in the fall, and I know that each of them is hesitant to take out any college loans, because they have no desire to spend a couple of decades in the workforce - they want to be stay-at-home, homeschooling moms. But one of their younger sisters wishes to have nothing to do with homeschooling when she marries and has children of her own.
It will be interesting to see how things unfold.
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