I feel very strongly about my choice to home school my son. Unfortunately with mine and my husbands student loans we can not live on 1 income. I will still have to work. My job is pretty flexible and i would be able to work around my husbands schedule. Is anyone doing something similar, if so, how does it work for you emotionally, physically, and/or relationally?
Is anyone homeschooling and working full time? Is it possible?
Posted: 6th September 2010 by admin in "flexible working"Tags: anyone, full, homeschooling, POSSIBLE, time, Working
I work part time at home and part time outside of the home so that makes me working full time. I also believe homeschooling is a wonderful choice for my children. When I was homeschooling the traditional way using textbooks and my having to do all the grading it was impossible. I was ready to give up entirely. Emotionally,physically and relationally, I was a basket case, my kids were not learning, the house was a pig stye and I was always tired, behind or angry or all three. I heard about online homeschooling from a friend in a homeschool support group and researched dozens of choices. We ended up with The Cambridge Academy (http://www. thecambridgeacademy. org) and homeschooling is now do-able. No difference. They do soooo much of the work that I used tohave to do. I just cannot explain how different our homeschooling is now.
Hello.
Congratulations on your choice to home school your son.
As you may already know, home schooling has some great benefits but also requires significant time, effort. . . and. as you so correctly noted, financial costs.
And as wonderful as it is, home schooling is not for everyone. As a home school educator myself, this is the first thing I like to tell people interested in home schooling.
Now, to answer your question, yes, it’s possible to homeschool working full time IF your son is mature enough to handle assignments on his own and IF you are responsible enough to keep on top of his progress AND keep in compliance with your state laws.
But let me be perfectly honest here with my next words – one of the greatest benefits of home schooling your son is because you can be there for him. If you cannot be there for him, then I would really consider alternatives until you can.
Because home schooling or not, I truly believe it’s the face-time and interaction spent with your child that creates the “magic” in his/her learning experience.
If you want more information on home schooling, I wrote over 10 articles for people especially like you considering home schooling as a serious option. My articles cover topics such as: 1) home school costs, 2) home school laws, 3) what home schooling is (and isn’t), 4) home school and its effects on socialization, and much more.
If you’re interested, I posted the link below in the source field.
I hope this does help a bit.
Sun Bae
Home School Educator
ProntoLessons. com
If you work and homeschool you will find the time.