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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am new to the idea of homeschooling, and I would love to hear the pros and cons. Never thought I would be someone that would consider it, but I am. The most that I can think of is that you are constantly "on", 24-hours a day, all the time. What happens when you are sick? How do you socialize your child? How are kids received in social groups when you do extracurricular activities?

My husband and I are starting to have this discussion, and I would love to hear more. Really happy there is now a HS forum, even if it does move a bit slower.[/quote]

One of the cons (and the reason I don't homeschool) can be your children may have difficulty with you as a teacher. My oldest had to deal with me constantly. Reminding him to say please, thankyou, close his mouth when he chewed, close the door without slamming it. All the normal kid stuff. He did not want me as his teacher, too. I would have loved to homeschool him, but I think it would have been detrimental to our relationship. That's a very personal con though, and many parent-child relationships thrive in a homeschooling situation.

You don't need to be on 24 hours a day. Homeschooling will take a couple of hours. You still have your regular life to lead. You can also institute quiet times. Quiet reading time, exploratory science time, calm walks, playground time, whatever you need to give you the mental space to relax. It's also not all on you. You can sign your kids up for classes (academic and athletic) to help break up the day.

Kids get socialized by living. Are you locking your child in a closet and refusing to speak to him? No? Then you're good. Your child socializes with you, with the people he interacts with on a daily basis. There are also play groups you could join. If you're religious, there's church. If you want, there are sports, music classes, and a bunch of other extra curricular activities. There are camps. There's going to the playground and running around with other kids. My children go to a regular school and have homeschooled kids in almost all of their activities. It's no big deal. There are kids from public schools, magnet schools, parochial schools, and private schools too. (My son doesn't think homeschooled kids are lucky because he thinks it would be a fate worse than death for me to teach him, but he would love the opportunity to sleep in a bit, or study more of what interests him and less of what the school requires, and so on.)

The homeschooled kids I know are great kids.[/quote]

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