Well, it happened....

I have heard other homeschooling moms tell me of not-so-nice comments made to them about their kids and their intellect and so forth. Most are well-meaning, for the most part, I do believe, but hurtful, and\or annoying to a homeschooling momma who is doing her best in the journey of educating her own. Some feel the need to "check up" on us as homeschoolers and hold us accountable, or something like that. Telling us our kids won't read aloud in primary class, or read quite slow, or is very shy around other kids, all are things we get told. Um, ok. Thanks for that information. :) What is funny to me is that, the things they tell us all "MUST" be the product of being homeschooled.....right???? A child doesn't like to read aloud because he\she is homeschooled....??? They are shy because they are homeschooled....?? It couldn't be that it is just their nature and they would be that way in public school, too....right????

I have been "waiting" for the comments to come. Well, one got back to me this week and I am admittedly upset about it. I will simmer down, I promise. Apparently, at a recent church activity, the girls were supposed to be writing nice things about eachother in some journals. My oldest was having a hard time spelling a word and another child wrote the word for her and then explained to her neighbor, "She homeschools....". So, that is why my daughter could not spell a word. Um, ok. That thing that saddens me is that this girl is too young to have formed her own opinion about homeschoolers and is just voicing what she has heard her parents say to her about homeschooling. I don't know who the child is, but obviously her mother or father think that homeschool kids don't know how to spell.

My dear, sweet Sasha is not the best speller. Who is at 8? She gets flustered easily and when that happens she can't even spell the word "dog", bless her heart. I felt so sad knowing she was feeling flustered around all those girls who probably weren't the best spellers either! LOL! She is not the fastest reader, but neither is her daddy, who has a graduate degree, so "slower" reading is ok with me!

I guess I just wish more people would have an open mind about homeschooling. I know there are families that are maybe not doing the greatest job, but that is their business. We will all be held accountable for our own. I don't like feeling like I am being watched and my kids are being "tested" by others who don't know them, or know how far they have come. Whoever that mother is, I wish I could assure her that I am doing my best. I pray A LOT to know what to do. I know where my kids need to work harder. Trust me, I KNOW! I love the choice I have made to do this, and I guess I need to toughen up, let people have their own opinions about it.....................I just wish my kids wouldn't hear what they have to say..................