Week 17

My learning from this week has been that you need to have "belief" in yourself and your kid to be able to homeschool him/her. Most of the trouble arises when this belief is shaky for either of the parties involved. While it is difficult for the kid to be judgmental because he does not know enough most likely, the doubts that keep creeping up in the parent(s)' minds regarding their own ability or that of their kid's, are really troublesome and need to be addressed. It is my belief that the lack of "belief" ( :-) ) can lead to a lot of heartburn and put into question the whole exercise - I think this is what most experienced homeschoolers talk about when they refer to "unschooling". You need to find that confidence in yourself, as the newness of the whole experience of walking down the unknown path is scary in and by itself, and when you know that any solution is only possible in the next academic cycle, the problem compounds itself and becomes much bigger from a psychological standpoint.