DId you have to convinve your spouse?

[hippymommaof3]

My husband really does not want us to homeschool the kids but I feel like they are getting so little from school all we are doing it sending them to a form of child care every day and spenind about as much on random this and that for the school. Our kids go to a Charter school so the education is supposed to be better but it is not. I feel like the main things they learned last year were from the reports they did and they did all the work for them at home!

I have told my husband we will use one of the online schools and we have one that arranged feild trips and meeting groups and they have a "teacher" that the kids would meet with once a month.  But he just wont go for it. I dont know what else to do to try and convince him.

[Bleacheddecay]

Yes. I sure did. I told him unless it was going to lead to a divorce I was going to have to give it at least a year to try and do what I felt was best for our kids.

[anetrnlov]

It did take a bit of coaxing but once I laid out all of the statistics about homeschoolers in front of him, along with the statistics that showed how bad the schools in our area are he started seeing things my way.  :0)

[buzymamaof3]

No.  I told my husband what I wanted to do and what I thought was best as a family and he did what i knew he would do.  He researched on his own and cam to his own conclusion and agreed with me 100%.  I think he may be an even bigger advocate of homeschooling than I am.  =o)  Maybe ask your dh to do the same - to look into it and give YOU reasons why you shouldn't.

[nikki0522]

Nope. When I approached DH about pulling DS#1 out of PS to homeschool him I was so afraid he'd say no. Come to find out, he had been thinking about it too but was afraid to say anything to me because he didn't want me to feel like I had to do it. Once I knew that we were on the same page, I pulled DS right away.

[jkohler]

Somewhat. My degree is in Elementary Education and I have had experience in public schools. We were married in college and he heard about all of the crazy stuff that happened in schools. When we had kids, it was something that was talked about. Then he joined the military and it just made sense. We are in our fourth week of homeschool (we are doing preschool) and he keeps commenting on how much the kids have learned in the past weeks. (I have even pulled Kindergarten standards for Science and Social Studies for my son.) I don't think he will ever question the decision again and in fact he was bragging to his family on the phone the other day :)

[musicmom246]

I was homeschooled, and public school was not an option, imo. And since we're not independently wealthy -lol- neither was Christian school! DH went to the local Christian school k-12, he is a pretty sociable person, and his prior associations with homeschooling were not good examples! I let him know I wanted to homeschool and why, but it was a stalemate for a while. Eventually, he just came around! Whether he heard me talking about it and realized what it was about, or just decided the public school wasn't an option for him, either, I don't know; I'm just glad he changed his mind! :D

[MommaG5]

My dh & I both started discussing, due to the continued failing reports on our schools, teachers & admin becoming bullies, & a Superintendant who only cares about how she looks. Dh still wasn't sure, so I decided to do my own research and found a program that we think will work for our lifestyle. We are neither one teachers, and we had already struggled getting my oldest ds to graduation day, and ds #2 had gone from loving school to hating it due to crappy teachers, and I wasn't looking forward to 9 more years of beating my head against a wall. Then I ran down the list of pros, cons, & possible "issues" and came up with answers to them all. I am happy to say that we are now hsing our 8 & 11 year olds for the first time this year and excited to start.

[CoffeeMama1081]

What are his reasons for not wanting to homeschool?  Could you maybe do some internet research and show him articles on why homeschooling can be a positive thing?

Here is an article written by John Holt on some common objections to homeschooling; I don't know if they work for your situation, but you can read through them and see if any would convince your husband.  http://www.naturalchild.org/common_objections/#13

I am one of the lucky one; my husband was actually the one who initiated homeschooling in the beginning.  I did a little more research to settle some worries I had, but the more research I did (I checked out as many books from the library on homeschooling as I could) the more I was convinced.  I know there are many people in your situation, though.  Can you convince him to maybe have you try it for just a year and see how it goes?  I hope it all works out; good luck!

[smalltownmom03]

My dh leaves all desisions regarding the kids up to me. I try to discuss major changes with him (like wanting to homeschool) and he just says to do whatever i feel is best. Do your reasurch and on paper so he can see the difference weigh your pros and cons of homeschooling vs public and if private is an option add that into your reasurch as well.

[devildogtigress]

I inormed DH before we got married I wul be homeschooling any children we had. He disagreed, aying "If public schools were good enough for me, they're good enough for our kids." When the kids were actually here, he changed his tune and is now a HUGE proponant of homeschooling, willing to work multiple jobs if he has to so we can keep them home.