If they don't bring a jacket on a chilly day, they will have to cut their outing short when they get cold. With regard to some of the annoying things around the home, if they don't put their bicycles away, they are hung up in the garage for three days. If they have a continually messy room, perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to have visitors over until the situation improves. These types of consequences are incentives to remember and obey and offer our children a chance to grow rather than a rescue operation from Mom and Dad. Yet people who either know or have met home schooled kids find them to be far more poised, confident, and appropriate in their interpersonal relationships.
Home is the training ground for life.
Because we are relating to each other all the time, I believe home schooled children have a better handle on the significance and maintenance of relationships - better than they would have if they were surrounded by the numerous superficial friendships offered in the traditional school setting. They are about living and learning together in all aspects of life. She is a former La Leche League Leader, farmer, day-care center director, and nursery school teacher. She likes to read cook, make dolls and puppets, sing, play the recorder, and work in the garden as well as write. In this interview she shares with us the essential characteristics that a successful homeschooling parent needs.