Homeschool?? How do you afford it? - Page 3

[elizawill]

my dh supports us mostly, and i'm a sahm 6 days a week. i have a b.s. in social work, but p/t jobs are scarce where we live. so.... i just got a job a few weeks ago .....an hour away from me! i'm working on saturdays from 10-8 at the front desk in a high-end furniture store. it's great though because they offer health insurance to very p/t employees.....so my family will have great insurance now for very cheap!!! yea!

[rmzbm]

Originally Posted by kerikadi

I wouldn't have thought to list that either.
Obviously SAH or WOH Dads could homeschool but in the hundreds of homeschoolers I have met irl and online that hasn't been the case so it would not have occurred to me to make it a choice.

Keri

Yeah, I wouldn't have thought of it either.

My DH supports us.

[onlyzombiecat]

I voted DP supports us.
Dh is currently working 1 full time and 2 part time jobs and I am a SAHP. We homeschooled dd with less income in the past. Sometimes things are tight for us but it has very little to do with homeschooling. I don't think the choices on the poll about who works and who doesn't will reflect how people afford to homeschool.

So far I'd say we are affording homeschooling by deciding what we can afford with our budget and using our brains to come up with a way to make it work. That's probably true for most people.

We did buy a full curriculum last year and I noted what we didn't use and what we did. I did a lot of planning over the summer. This year I bought less. We are using things we already own as well as resources like the library, internet and free programs in the area. We are staggering our planned purchases throughout the year. My parents offered to buy dd some school supplies (paper, crayons, markers, glue) with their store discount. We weren't in dire straights over getting that stuff but it helped.
We don't have a back-to-school wardrobe to buy (can homeschool in pajamas if we feel like it). I took my dd's "school" picture with my digital camera.

[nancy926]

Originally Posted by Ruthla

Maybe the assumption wasn't sexist, but rather that the at-home parent would be more likely to be the MDC member.

Well, isn't that a sexist assumption? My DH is the at-home parent and I work. I happen to work at home, so I get to see the kids frequently. I also am on the computer all day, so it's easy for me to read MDC.

I was shocked that "I support us and DH/DP stays home" was not an option, too. It's kind of sad really to assume that all MDC mamas are either in double-parent-working homes or are supported by a DH/DP. Why can't they be the sole financial supporters? Not crunchy enough?

[Unreal]

I just blew it off as being an oddball in the land off oddballs


All the homeschool things we do..I'm the main contact, even though dh is the one that takes the kids

[Nature]

My choice wasn't on there. I'm married, but both dh and I are disabled so we rely on what income we can SSDI, SSI, food stamps, WIC. I did not see this option on here for couples, only for single mother.

[RiverSky]

Just thought I'd point out that I can, off the top of my head, list off three SAHDs who homeschool that I know. One is retired and this is his "2nd set of children" as he describes it and he feels it is very important to spend as much time with them as is possible, since he didn't do that with his first two. There is also a SAHD in our homeschool group that I know of, and one of my friend's husbands has just switched to being the SAH homeschooling parent.

Certainly, that's a smaller percentage out of all the homeschoolers I know, but I am still surprised that there are others who don't know any homeschooling dads. Interesting...

[zonapellucida]

we struggle-