The (Un)likely Homeschooler
Homeschooling was a 13-letter swear word. The word I always imagined for the future when my daughters were toddlers but knew would never be my reality. It was a foreign concept to my typical education upbringing. I had never even met a homeschooler, never mind actually become a homeschooling parent! When my daughters were babies, I had a very part-time job at a hair salon and finally met my first homeschooled human- a teenager, who was.... dare I say it? Social. She knew how to have a conversation. GASP: All those myths were not true? Could it be possible that homeschool children may have the same personality traits as public-school children? There may be shy, slow to warm up, outgoing, and everything in between type of children no matter how they were educated? I was shocked! (Is there a sarcasm font?) All of those rumors I had been told about homeschoolers may not have been true. As my daughters grew older, I sent them on the expected path of preschool, then my oldes...