Why I Homeschool, Unexpected Challenges & My Transformation

Why I Homeschool

Why I homeschool? Because wandering around this wide world, and discovering all it has to offer, is an interesting, engaging, intriguing way to live a family life. And I loved doing it with my kids.

Also, I love having the public library as our second home. Thumbing my fingers across the children’s storybooks and shoulder bags full of interesting reads were part of our routine too.

(Though the late fees were enormous!)

Oh, and wandering bookstores and libraries during school days: this is an amazing life!

Or bringing those books to the local cafe to “CafeSchool” and enjoying special drinks while listening to adult conversations while the kids play games or finish their books.

Driving around the neighbourhood or driving to a new town to discover museums and botanical gardens or nature centers with my kids, listening to audiobooks in the minivan, or completing a math workbook while we drove there was fun! Mini-van schooling is underrated.

Reliving childhood memories alongside my kids, like learning to swing on a swing, understanding World War history for the first time, or even relearning basic arithmetic and algebra was an accomplishment.

And building a social circle around the values that mattered most to our family? That was a cool way to live, too.

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What Led Me to Homeschooling?

It was a book I casually picked up from a bookstore on a vacation. I intended to find the arguments against it because I didn’t want my kids to be weird and I didn’t wear jean jumpers, yet it seemed like everyone around me was homeschooling. So I needed my arguments against it.