I homeschool my three sons and I love it

This. This. So much this. It was hard to decide what quote to use – I wanted to quote it all. ~Jen

“Because they’ve never been to conventional school, they’ve never absorbed the idea that people should congregate in narrow age ranges. My 4 year old’s best friend is 6. My 6 year old plays with his 2-year-old brother as an equal. And when they meet other children, age isn’t an issue. They play with 10 year olds as easily as they play with kids their own age. I believe that’s valuable. They’re learning social skills from kids older than them, who have more practice at it, rather than kids on the same level. This, my husband and I feel, helps their social skills evolve more naturally and quickly than conventionally schooled children.”

“People complain about homeschooling because they feel children aren’t getting educated “on schedule.” In our home, we actually don’t believe in a schedule. In fact, we don’t have one at all. In America, we teach kids to read at 5, while Finland waits until children are 7. My nephew can add and subtract three-digit numbers, and he’s 6. My first grader can’t memorize 4 subtracted from 9, but he reads at a third-grade level. My 4-year-old son, on the other hand, doesn’t know his letters, and the ones he does know are only a few more than his precocious 2-year-old brother. My husband and I find none of these things highly remarkable or worrisome. Blaise, who’s 6, is just wired to read early; August, who’s 4, isn’t interested. But he’s allowed that disinterest here at home. That’s why we homeschool.””>So much this. It was hard to decide what quote to use – I wanted to quote it all. ~Jen

“Because they’ve never been to conventional school, they’ve never absorbed the idea that people should congregate in narrow age ranges. My 4 year old’s best friend is 6. My 6 year old plays with his 2-year-old brother as an equal. And when they meet other children, age isn’t an issue. They play with 10 year olds as easily as they play with kids their own age. I believe that’s valuable. They’re learning social skills from kids older than them, who have more practice at it, rather than kids on the same level. This, my husband and I feel, helps their social skills evolve more naturally and quickly than conventionally schooled children.”

“People complain about homeschooling because they feel children aren’t getting educated “on schedule.” In our home, we actually don’t believe in a schedule. In fact, we don’t have one at all. In America, we teach kids to read at 5, while Finland waits until children are 7. My nephew can add and subtract three-digit numbers, and he’s 6. My first grader can’t memorize 4 subtracted from 9, but he reads at a third-grade level. My 4-year-old son, on the other hand, doesn’t know his letters, and the ones he does know are only a few more than his precocious 2-year-old brother. My husband and I find none of these things highly remarkable or worrisome. Blaise, who’s 6, is just wired to read early; August, who’s 4, isn’t interested. But he’s allowed that disinterest here at home. That’s why we homeschool.”