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We have homeschooled since our daughter was 4? she graduated this last year...so we did the whole thing with her! I have a 15 year old son also. We've homeschooled in times of blessing and times of...umm, want? desperate want? I managed to get a job at a childcare center where I was able to take them with me, sit them down at a table and have them do whatever work they hadn't gotten done at home...they liked to play, it was incentive.

My husband and I both come from long lines of stubborn people, teachers would not have liked my talkative, artistic, stubborn children...trust me, public school teachers throughout Texas are very thankful I chose to homeschool! When my son hit his teenage years however, he decided teenagers were strange and he likes adults better...okkkkkk, so he takes free art classes at the local museum...works for me.

My children are artistic in different ways, I was able to feed that. My daughter read on a 3rd grade level at 5 years old, but couldn't tie her shoes, and liked a nap!(thank you G-d) I could deal with that, a kindergarten teacher wouldn't have. My son didn't really talk much at all until he was almost 4...then there was no stopping him, he was just a slow starter, but once he got moving and talking...wow! and no ps teacher was going to deal with that...he was allllll boy, he needed to be able to run every hour or so. All the heavy reading is done with audio books for him, that's always been how he learns best. what PS teacher is going to be able to take the time and figure that out and then deal with it?

I would say the simplest way of putting it, is homschooling gives a family the ability to teach to the individual family and child's needs, does that make sense?