My daughter is nearly 3. My dh has pressured me to put her in a part time preschool (Waldorf) to help her separate from me and "give me time" to do other things. By which he means work (I do freelance but have a hard time working with dd awake--which is almost all the time!).
I succumbed. Its been 2 days and I don't like it at all. I am an AP mom--so I don't think she needs to separate from me at this point, but that's another issue but will be part of the argument I will encounter when its time to talk about school in earnest. That it is a weakness for my dd to be too connected to me.
Anyway, I've read Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto, and have many of my own stories about school. So, I am convinced about homeschooling/unschooling. But, how do I begin the long and arduous uphill both ways journey in making this a reality with the firm disagreement of dh? Getting him to read a book about it is not likely, so I'll have to build my case for a verbal argument. I'm not good at that, so any suggestions on how to lay the foundation over time would be useful.
BTW he's against, because its different. He is from a conservative traditional background with 2 aunts and many close friends who are lifelong educators, and committed to "the system."
Does anyone have any experience with a dh who never got on board?
Is anyone able to home school and also work or have a home-based business?
I succumbed. Its been 2 days and I don't like it at all. I am an AP mom--so I don't think she needs to separate from me at this point, but that's another issue but will be part of the argument I will encounter when its time to talk about school in earnest. That it is a weakness for my dd to be too connected to me.
Anyway, I've read Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto, and have many of my own stories about school. So, I am convinced about homeschooling/unschooling. But, how do I begin the long and arduous uphill both ways journey in making this a reality with the firm disagreement of dh? Getting him to read a book about it is not likely, so I'll have to build my case for a verbal argument. I'm not good at that, so any suggestions on how to lay the foundation over time would be useful.
BTW he's against, because its different. He is from a conservative traditional background with 2 aunts and many close friends who are lifelong educators, and committed to "the system."
Does anyone have any experience with a dh who never got on board?
Is anyone able to home school and also work or have a home-based business?
But, then I learned that the whole 'going to school' mentality is so engrained in our psychy that it is really hard to convince someone otherwise. So, it took a year but I slowly started to educate my hubby in a non-confrontational manner whenever the opportunity arose. Was it sneaky and under-handed? Maybe. But I also realize that most husbands aren't really opposing the notion but rather don't understand it or fear it. And we all know that most fear is based on a lack of knowledge.
) was to very slowly come to understand exactly what he was afraid of, and then present small bits of evidence to counter that fear. So, when he said "what about socialization" as they all do, I asked what he meant, and had him describe in detail what he thought ds would get in school and what might happen without that...then I sent him online articles (a couple a week, not all at once), providing 'evidience about the bad at school and the good in hs'ing. He never once read a book about hs'ing, but did at least skim articles enough to get the gist of things.
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... But if he can gradually start to get a picture of how beneficial homeschooling can be in the big long term picture of all your lives, he might begin to shift priorities until it makes more sense to him at some point. Can't happen overnight, obviously - but you never know.
) plan and putting it in writting really helped DH.
