The Big Decision

I have known in my heart since my Monkey was born that I wanted to homeschool her, but who knew putting that final signature on the form that needed to be mailed in would be difficult.

I am sure if you are considering homeschooling, one of the first things you did was google the pros and cons of homeschooling vs public school. I know when I did this it really confirmed why I was going to homeschool. Then it turns out that my Monkey is extremely shy and I started second guessing wanting to homeschool. I unofficially homeschooled preschool when she was three as she was really showing signs that she wanted to learn and would beg me to do her "special binder", which was just a few printing and math worksheets I had printed off one day and put into page protectors so they could be reused.

Once I started second guessing myself about whether she would be better in public school, I did enroll her in their preschool program for the 2010-2011 school year so that if I put her in public school she would at least already know the school and be used to going there without me. Thankfully preschool was only 2 hours a day for 2 days a week. Also, I have to admit that with living in the country the school she would have gone to is quite small with a total of only 60 students for the entire school.

Once preschool ended in the spring I realized that I really had to make the final decision about whether to homeschool or send her to public school. I finally started talking to my DH seriously about what we wanted for our Monkey and decided that since I felt so strongly about homeschooling that it was really worth a good try to see how it went.

I still continued to second guess myself after the "Big Decision" was made, and just got up the courage last week to finally mail the form for registering for homeschooling to our provincial department of education.

Now the only issue left is all the objections from my family as there are only a couple of people who actually agree with my decision. They think that because she is so shy she should be in public school.  Oh well, nothing I can do about their beliefs. Here's hoping I can prove that homeschooling is a good option for my family.

Beth