What is There Not to Love About Homeschooling?

Why adopt someone else's list of "Top Ten Reasons to Homeschool" when it would be much more personal to list our own favorites? I strugged to keep mine to only twenty....and it was hard.

I am my child’s “go to” person when they want to know something.

If an exciting opportunity arises, we can call off school for the day and take advantage of it without having to ask the school’s permission to be absent.

I get to grade my children’s work based on their understanding of the material, and not how many answers were wrong or right.

Cuddling up on the couch reading a book in front of a cozy fire is so much more inviting than sitting at hard cold desks doing worksheets.

No need to ask permission to go to the potty. And my boys don’t have to ask either.

My boys are not preoccupied during school time by the female sitting next to them, unless it’s our doggy Chloe, and truth be told, she can be pretty appealing. I guess I have to take that one back.

The boys get to choose their own books and get credit for reading them.

I don’t have to hear “My teacher says to do it this way…” I am the teacher.

Errands to the right places can be counted as field trips, and have turned out to be extremely educational.

Visiting the chiropractor can count as a health lesson. You think I'm kidding.

Birthdays are counted as school holidays. The more children, the more school holidays.

We have the opportunity to teach history based on what actually happened and why, and not according to ideas that have been baptized in political correctness or sanitized of any reference to God.

Math is learned at the pace of the student, and not the pace of the Scope and Sequence or according to the slowest learner in class.

We can give credit for attending church and taking notes.

We never have to stand in line for lunch. And lunch can be either ultra-healthy or not so much depending on the whim of the kitchen staff (Mom) and what’s readily available in the pantry.

No need to buy school clothes in order to keep up with latest fads and fashions.

If we want to study science or history all day, that’s our prerogative. No need to let the other teachers know.

As mom-Teacher, I can share my humble but correct opinion in all matters of religion and politics and have no fear of losing my job.

If unseemly behavior calls for chastisement, no worries.

It is not uncommon for my homeschooled children to use words that I have to look up in the dictionary. I remind them that I was publicly schooled and to please use smaller words.