Homeschooled People: What was your homeschool experience like?

I've been home schooled for 5 years and I love it! Your kids do have to get used being set apart from others and you do get some teasing. You do get call "unsmart" but studies have shown that home schoolers have a better education than public schoolers. I am more of the quiet laid back analyzing sorta person so I don't make friends very easily anyways. I have been to public school before though and I hated it (probably because of my personality). If you are worried about your kids being unsocialized then you can always sign them up for different home school co-ops (kinda like school but only 1 day a week but you still do other school work at home) or you can sign them up at J&J and stuff like that. There are ways that home schooled kids are different for instance they tend to respect you and other adults more. You do grow closer to your kids when you are teaching them and you do have a better relationship. A lot of people tend to think that home schoolers don't do any work but they really do. If you are homeschooling the right way YOU DO WORK! People think that home schoolers do 2 hours of work but in reality I do from 9 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m. More and more colleges are smiling upon home schoolers. My mom does not keep all of my grades we do Bob Jones online curriculum where you have videos of teachers teaching you and then you do book work and they keep all of your information and grades for you (its easier for my mom and easier to get into college). We do it as Christians. You do have to be careful who you listen to. Just don't listen to people who only do 2 hours of work or have never been home schooled. Of course people ask why you have your kids with you if you go somewhere during the day when other kids are in school and you do get snubby answers but just go with the flow. Hope this helps!

I became Home schooled after the 6TH grade and i loved it i am now in college . but i did so much better being Home schooled then being in public school, things were not going so well, but i had more friends being Home schooled then what i had in public school. Hope this helps

My experience was mixed. I enjoyed that it generally takes less time than traditional schooling. I liked having more time to read and do other things. I liked that it never felt like a competition for grades etc. I didn't like that my parents were very controlling. Our curriculum was strictly Christian with the exception of math. They never allowed me to meet kids who weren't homeschooled or didn't go to my church. It was a way to keep a tight reign on me. I didn't really need that and I definitely resented it at times. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that those things are more about my parents than they were about the homeschooling. Homeschooling doesn't have to be stiffling, though it can be. Sometimes I did want to go to school, because I would have been away from them a bit; it would have been breathing room. I'm grown now, on my own, and I don't have the closest relationship with them, When they continued to control into adulthood with who I should date etc, disapproving of perfectly nice guys because they didn't meet their religious/racial/political criteria, I distanced myself a bit. Still, I can see the advantages to homeschooling and the things that if I do choose it for my future kids, I would definitely avoid. I think it is very important that you let your children develop their own identities and allow them age appropriate freedoms. Parents who homeschool need to be careful of over-involvement with older kids. It can be a start of the helicopter parent syndrome which doesn't allow kids to grow to their fullest. I wish my mom had separated her ego from our schooling. I would have been quite happy to be homeschooled had it not been what she felt she needed to do to prove her mothering/protective/religious beliefs. Overall, I'd say I didn't hate it or love it. It is what people make of it. Mine wasn't the best, but other people's can be.