In a Rush to Graduate Your Kids from Homeschool?

My family had a conversation last night about when we would graduate the kids from homeschool. We started talking about SAT scores for my son that we should receive on Tuesday and the fact that we couldn’t graduate him next year if he took the PSAT and qualified for the National Merit Program (he took the SAT first as a practice for the PSAT). Because the PSAT had to be taken in your Jr. year to qualify for the National Merit program, we were trying to figure out if he had to wait another year to graduate even though he … Continue reading

Our Pediatrician Encouraged Our Homeschooling!

We went to visit the doctor today. The kids hadn’t been there in 18 months. They actually thought we had changed doctors, but the truth is the kids hadn’t been ill enough to visit a doctor, so we just didn’t. Anyway, they (the office manager and doctor) immediately questioned us about homeschooling as they remembered that we were homeschoolers. They wanted to know if we were still homeschooling now that the kids are teens… and we answered that we are. Then came the moment when we were alone… doctor, and child, and parent. She began asking more in depth questions … Continue reading