Homeschooling

When we found out about our son's impending arrival, Nate and I started talking about school.  Granted, we had a lot of time back then (and still have a lot of time now) to make a decision about what we were going to do with schooling, we've come to a consensus now.  

We will be a homeschooling family.

No we aren't religious zealots.  No we aren't anarchists trying to indoctrinate our son to overthrow the government someday.  We aren't planning on raising our child in a bubble or concerned that he's not smart enough for public or private school.  Rather the opposite in fact.

Nate has an IQ of 165 and mine is 155.  Nate has ADD.  I was bored in school and finally gave up trying somewhere between 8th grade and high school (with the exception of my honors classes, which I loved).  2.0 is very smart.  He's learning how to do things at a rapid pace (all toddlers do from what I'm told) and I can see the wheels in his mind turning.  But he's also very active and likes to be in everything and running all over the place until he falls over with exhaustion.  That's just how boys are.

Would it be a good idea to put him in a learning environment that doesn't have any wiggle room?  I don't think so.  Plus, public schools are not what they used to be.  I had a good public school with a wonderful curriculum and teachers that cared about their students.  That's not the norm.  I don't want my son in a classroom that's overcrowded where he gets lost and where he's presented situations at ages where he might not be emotionally able to handle them.

Private school is expensive and is getting more expensive every single day.  That's not going to work for us either.

That leaves one option.

Thankfully we have a school district here that supports homeschooling.  There's online K-12 school in Iowa as well that will help us supplement parts of 2.0's education that we might not be the best at teaching (like math, my nemesis).  

The benefits of homeschooling are so vast and I think it's worth every sacrifice I have to make.  I'm excited to teach him at home and watch the world unfurl before his curious eyes as he reaches out with both hands to grasp the knowledge.  Nothing could be better about being his mom than that.