By Lee Binz
Can you believe it? After all the years of homeschooling, and all those messes, NOW is when I finally get a house cleaner! It’s just more important for me to blog than clean the house, right? You know what I’ve found out about having a housekeeper? Now that I have one, I feel completely incompetent about my house. I don’t know what cleaning products I need to buy at the store, I don’t know if my vacuum works or not, and I don’t know if my bathroom IS clean or if it just looks clean from a distance. Recently, I found a HUGE spider in my bed. Has it been living in my bed all this time? How could I know, because I’m not the one cleaning. I’m pretty sure, however, that the sheets on my college age son’s bed NEVER get washed now that I’m not doing it.
The problem with school in a classroom setting is that you end up feeling incompetent. You don’t know what your child is doing, how they are performing, or how well they are learning. You may end up knowing that they are NOT getting something critical to you (world view, penmanship, or manners.) But you may NOT know what else they are missing.
The joy of homeschooling independently is that you really DO know what your kids are (or are not) doing! There may be gaps, as there are in any other school setting. But when there are gaps, once you see them you can actually DO something about it because you know they exist! The problem with a classroom setting is that the parent may not actually know what is going on academically with their student (or socially, or spiritually, etc.)
Take control. Homeschool independently to feel more confident. Some parents fear homeschooling because they don’t feel confident. But homeschooling actually creates that confidence! It may not happen right away, but soon you’ll start to see where your child is, and start working with them on those issues that were hidden before.
That said, I’m not giving up my house cleaner! I’ve been waiting YEARS for this blessing!
Lee Binz, The HomeScholar, and her husband, Matt, are experts in helping parents homeschool high school. They have an amazing free 5 part mini-course called “The 5 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make When Homeschooling High School.”
From Lee Binz, The HomeScholar – Helping Parents Homeschool High School
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