Through reading and talking with local homeschool families I’ve found that it is possible for me to continue my own education while providing the Kid with his. They all tell me it would be tough, but possible for me to study the last four classes I have via night school next year and then set myself up for entry into nursing school come 2013. Anything I did would have to be after 4:30 until the Kid got old enough to be by himself (which won’t happen for many, many years), but I like knowing that I can not only help my kid, but also help Mike, too.
I’ve been thinking today about letting this term be the Kid’s last at his preschool. He has until August, 2011 to start kindergarten, and I’m considering using that time to try out unschooling/homeschooling to see how we do. I’m lucky to have a family full of natural learners, so there’s every possibility it will work for us, but if it doesn’t the Kid will still be academically ready to start school come next August. If he’s out of preschool I’m going to set him up with some sort of class (probably yoga) just to keep him out there in the social circles.
I’m going to talk to the Kid about school today and see where his head it at. The last time I asked a few weeks back what his favorite thing about school was, he said, “Playing Legos.”
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