Yes, now you can rest peacefully at night knowing the children are educated by you and not pimped out to a government school learning all kinds of things you don't want them to know and yet not enough of what they should know.
I read dozens of books when I began teaching my children. I learned that I should teach everything from reading, writing, and arithmetic to quantum physics and latin to round out their education. With a little theater and various musical instruments (the more the better) and Olympic gymnastics thrown in I could produce 5 world-class adults.
Only one or two problems. I don't know quantum physics or latin. I can't keep a beat longer than about 30 seconds and I have asthma so bad that doing anything physical for more than 20 seconds requires a five minute time-out to get all my breathing regulated. On top of that I have to teach nutrition???!! What's that about?
I went to every homeschool convention and signed up for all the homeschool groups and browsed through hundreds of pages of curriculum. I listened to cassette tapes and other home educators and even taught a couple classes. And got very, very good...at feeling guilty!
I would stay up half the night trying to figure out how I was going to cope with all five children and run 5 different classes for them throughout the months ahead. And seeing as how I have gotten very, very good at math, that's 25 different classes a week! Even public school teachers didn't have it this hard. At the end of the day those little darlings leave the classroom and get on the bus. As a homeschooling mother they are still there staring you in the face at dinner time.
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