Anyone homeschool their children? If so, how's that working for you?

We homeschooled our 3 children for 5 years and simply loved it. Now we have 4. The funny thing about it was that I was a teacher in a public school district and we weren't comfortable in sending our kids into this decent district because we felt that they would get more negative than positive from the system. My kids eventually had to start in a private school and struggled with the concept of different classes, teachers, amount of homework, but they are great kids and we believe they are better prepared for the most important aspects of their future because they were nurtured in a protective environment with a loving mother as their main teacher. Character is caught not taught. So we are pleased with the overall effect even though they have struggled to keep up with the sheer amount of work now assigned. They will get the hang of it after some practice.

My kids haven't graduated yet but I have friends who's children are in university and in the job force. They are all doing fine. We've been homeschooling for over 4 years now and have no plans to change.

My son has not graduated yet. He is learning more at home than he learned at school. It is a more efficient use of time and energy in our situation. We have 3 homeschool graduates who are close friends with our family. One is 21 and worked several retail jobs while in high school. She now has a job at a bank and enjoys her work and makes a decent salary. The second, her sister, graduated from home school at 17. She went 2 years of community college and now is a junior at a state university. She wants to work with children, possibly as a librarian. The 3rd graduate that I know, enrolled immediately in a photography class at community college. He changed his course of study and is now studying graphic arts. He is doing an internship now and should graduate at end of this semester. Now, I can also give you examples of public school kids who have graduated and cannot fill out an application nor pass a placement test for community college. It is all in what you put into an education.

working great for us, changed our lives for the better. High school graduates are treated the same, once they get passed admissions no one even knows unless the kid tells them. Admissions for most major universities are the same, look at your alma mater's website and you'll see that more than likely the admissions page will have a reference to homeschool admissions.

We just started homeschooling a few months ago and like someone else said, my only regret is that we didn't start sooner. It took about a month to pull together texts, workbooks, math and science tools, etc. and really get a direction for all the kids but now we are in full swing and loving every minute of it. The time we have for projects, experiments and all the extra subjects we want to learn about is great. With our homeschooling group we get to participate in park day, field trips, co-op classes and play dates in the middle of the day even! As for colleges, our local group just posted an article about UC Riverside who not only accepts and recruits homeschoolers, they recently changed their acceptance policies for homeschoolers. They can now present their portfolio of accomplished work and NO transcripts needed. UC was also contacted by Johns Hopkins announcing their wish to recruit homeschoolers and what their policies were. Go to the website below to see the article and UC's astounding attitude that homeschoolers may be better educated and prepared for college. Hope this helps. Best of luck and go for it!

I have been homeschooling my whole life. I have never set foot in a "real" school. It has worked great for me! I am going to go to a homeschool tutorial next year. My brother (who has also been homeschool since kindergarden) is about to begin applying to college. He got into one already.

i was homeschooled and i regretted it.i missed out on so much not going to public school.that would be something that should be really considered when you are thinking about doing it

Well I haven't personally sent any of my kids off to college yet, but several of my homeschooling friends have. Their kids all got into good colleges. Several have received scholarship, one was a national Merit scholarship winner. Just like with Public School, there isn't an iron clad guarantee that you will get accepted into your first choice college, but any student who is willing to study hard should have no trouble getting into a good college. Now as to other aspects of homeschooling, all I can say is its great. If you visit some of the blogs at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com you can get a peek into the lives of a lot of real homeschool families. My own blog is there too, at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/PathofLifeAcademy/