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Old 01-13-2011, 12:06 AM
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Cyranoak
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I taught high school for seven years, have been in Al-Anon for eight years, have a child in 9th grade, and have several nieces and nephews who were homeschooled. Based on that experience I would say this-- Absolutely do not homeschool your kids because they hate school or want to be homeschooled (their reasons). It's codependant enabling in my opinion. Absolutely do homeschool your kids if you want to homeschool your kids and believe it's the right decision (your reasons). That's making a decison because you think it's best, not codependancy.

There are a ton of resources out there to help you do this well, and as Noday pointed out you can homeschool and socialize your kids too-- it's not mutually exclusive. I'd add that my nieces and nephews all chose to go to public high schools, but were homeschooled up to that point. All good kids.

Take what you want and leave the rest.

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