[Coldwater Creek]

Definitely! I did not home school, but our children do. It is a lot of work even for stay at home mom's (I hate that phrase), but the rewards are so great that it is worth it. We try to help with the grand children's education anyway that we can.

I may be biased, but all seven are very well educated, even to the 5 yo who has been able to read for a long while.

One of the children and their mother is in Europe now learning first hand history and geography lessons.

I was a married teenage mother, who knew that an education was just about all that we could give our children as an inheritance. Mission accomplished!!!!!!
We sacrificed and sent our children to private school.

[mother22wife21]

Yes, I hate that phrase too!

God Bless you for being in your children's corner! So many homeschoolers have problems with families that are divided in support.

LOL so has my five year old. Count to 100, add, subtract, group and use Venn diagrams. She is quite the little scientist (ugh, all those bugs!!!) she gardens with her Nana, and likes to watch her videos with the sound off and the subtitles on so she can read the stories.She is in church and is learning our values. She is able to extrapolate across situations and apply those values in a constructive and generally successful manner. Sometimes I'll catch her shaking her head after playtime with some children, and she will say so and so don't know how to act. They are mean to each other. And you have another teachable moment.

It's not easy and it is not natural.It takes commitment, clarity of purpose and vigilance. So much of the time, if you aren't vigilant, your child is influenced by factors that don't even register on their radar and if not caught by you, and challenged then it was a teachable moment for someone else with your child on values that may not be yours.

Yes, I would say mission accomplished!!!What a wonderfully rich experience to be in Europe on a homeschooling trip.