3 Things Every Homeschooler Needs to Know
There are 3 things I want you to know about homeschooling. #1 It doesn’t have to be a full-time job. #2 It doesn’t have to take a ton of money. #3 It doesn’t take a whole lot of brains or any special training. Most of us have grown up in the traditional school system and as a result, we think that education takes 6-9 hours a day, costs huge amounts, and requires a master’s degree. I mean, after all, that’s what we’ve always experienced so it has to be so. Right? Well, the truth is that every story sounds true until you hear the other side and most of us have never heard the other side. Here’s the other side: I homeschooled all 3 of my kids with a budget of around $50/ year while I worked full-time outside the home and the highest degree I hold is an AA. On top of all that, for the first several years I homeschooled I was very sick with an underdiagnosed illness. Many people in my community thought I was crazy and pitied my kids because of my “foolish” decisi