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Are you considering home schooling or already home school, and looking for ideas to make homeschooling more successful for your children and you? Would you like to homeschool your children but don't know how you can afford to? I started homeschooling when my oldest was in Kindergarten and have put together this website to help those who want to homeschool or are already homeschooling. You can find out more about me and my family on the "About us" page. For those of you that are considering homeschooling, let me reassure you that you can do it! For those of you that are already homeschooling, I believe you will find the resources on this website useful in your homeschool success. I have only just got started putting up this website, so check back often - I have a lot more to add! Advantages of Homeschooling In one series of IQ tests given to children ages 2-4 years old, 95% of the children were found to be highly creative - questioning minds and an ability for abstract thinking. When the same children were tested again at age 7, only 5% still demonstrated high levels of creativity. In the ensuing years they learned to conform, "If you want to get along, you had better go along" is what they discovered. They had learned to color between the lines, to sit in neat little rows, to do and say what the other kids did and said, and to do as they were told. Over time, they lost the wonderful fearless spontaneity of youth and learned to suppress ideas and ideas that were unual or different.
Can Instill Your Family Beliefs In a recent court case, Feb. 2007, a federal judge in Boston has dismissed a suit by two families who wanted to stop a Massachusetts town and its public school system from teaching their children about gay marriage. The complaint filed against the town of Lexington, about 12 miles west of Boston, had said the school had "begun a process of intentionally indoctrinating very young children to affirm the notion that homosexuality is right and normal in direct denigration of the plaintiffs' deeply held faith. The book that sparked the case was "King & King" which tells the story of a crown prince who rejects a bevy of beautiful princesses, rebuffing each suitor until falling in love with a prince. The two marry, sealing the union with a kiss, and live happily ever after. This is just one of many instances in which school districts can expose your children to beliefs that go against your family beliefs. When educating our children at home, we are able to teach our children about what happens in our world today after they have a foundation of understanding and have the maturity to understand. These families found out this story was being read to their children and have tried to stop school districts from exposing children to concepts of this controversial nature without first notifiying parents. How many ideas are children being exposed to in public schools that parents are never aware of?
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