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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is how it is stated quite honestly. I think it is important to look for the silver linings and things that can make a hard experience more enjoyable. But when people are posting "this is great, I get to spend time with my kids" and not acknowledging that for some families that means that they are losing their jobs and other people are getting really sick it feels tone deaf.

As for the people posting that it is hard, well many folks understand that. Our son is not homeschooled for a couple of reasons.

1) Neither my husband or I have the patience to teach everything to our son. We actually have the academic background to cover all the major fields but I am a lousy teacher and my Husband has no interest in teaching. we love supplementing. We read to DS, we take him to educational locations, we watch science based shows and discuss the concepts. We are all over that. But knowing how to explain concepts that DS is struggling with and has to learn is outside our comfort zone.

2) We both work full time jobs and feel like we need to work those jobs to save appropriately for retirement, college, and the possibility of one of us not working at all.

3) We appreciate the socialization that comes from school and the exposure to areas we would really struggle with teaching, like Art and Music.

This is a hard time for a lot of parents because many are taking the educational element seriously and are clueless on homeschooling and how to help out kids learn. And we are trying to work from home while homeschooling. And there are no socialization opertunities for our kids so they need more attention from us which is hard to do because we are working and teaching.

I appreciate that there are folks who are enjoying the change of pace and feel comfortable with it. I just think that the people who have posted have done so in a way that ignores the gravity of the situation. I don't post in those threads because there is no real reason for me to rain on anyones parade. I am sure that those folks are not trying to be insensitive but the way many of them are phrased can be off putting.[/quote]

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