[clawrence3]

Exactly - just keep in mind that, sometimes, even the best of parents are not cut out for teaching all day, week after week. Don't get me wrong - you don't have to be couped (sp?) up teaching since we get out a lot and experience history and other subjects - you just have to have the right temperment.

[moehoward]

What ever that means.

Listen, I've asked you before to not ping me.

[SuziQ]

But the parents don't have to do much in the way of teaching when the kids get to high school age. They are reading by that time, and they can actually teach themselves for some subjects; mostly Humanities. We'd discuss what they were studying, but they did a lot of it on their own! My job was to provide our daughter with the materials I thought would work best for her. If you are in an area where there are homeschool co-ops, you can take advantage of those for the subjects on which you feel shaky.

Our daughter took the higher math classes, and physics with the lab at the Community College. Her dad could have done the Math, but it was a vey busy time for him. Worked out well, though. She enjoyed the classes, and didn't have a problem being in classes with folks older than herself. She also took a couple of Composition classes, because she didn't believe me when I tried to tell her how to go about writing. That's ok; at least she's learning!