From Confessions of a home-schooler (click here to read full article)

“As I say, I understand this a little bit better than I did at first. For one thing, I’m not sure any man can really grasp the competing and largely incompatible demands faced these days by American women, who are expected to be providers, power brokers, nurturers and sex symbols, either all at the same time or in rapid succession. Whether they’re working-class or middle-class, most working mothers feel fundamentally torn between home and the workplace. They get shunted into mommy-track careers if they seem insufficiently devoted to their corporate overlords while getting grief from mothers-in-law for not spending enough time with the kids. They’re doing the best they can and it’s not that much fun, and the last thing they want to hear is somebody telling them, in effect, that they must have missed the latest memo on hip 21st-century motherhood: You’re supposed to quit your job and spend your days reading your kids “Oliver Twist”! Home schooling is the new black!”

I haven’t read many homeschooling articles but the ones that I have always seem to be positive but then can’t resist a dig at the whole socialization  part of it.  This article was written by a father who is homeschooling his twins. It looks to be a series and I’m looking forward to reading his future articles.

The “I could never do that” is something I’ve already become quite familiar with.  I had my son at a birth center, I had a homebirth with my daughter … response I could never do that.  I make my own bread and laundry detergent… response I could never do that.  To each his own, I’m not trying to make people do things my way, I just ask you don’t make me do things your way.

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