Highly intelligent people wrote those books. I’m not one of them.

Let me give you some background. My husband John and I have two children, Melissa and Keith. I was a full-time mom from the time my first child was born. I didn’t want to miss a thing motherhood had to offer.

I wanted to be the one my children spit up on. I wanted to be the one to endure the whines and the screams. I wanted to be the one to clean up after they found the open box of cornstarch and maple syrup and thought the mixture would make a great skin lotion. But after about 6 years of this, life changed. My kids entered school.

It didn’t take long to realize I had a huge problem. I did not have enough stress in my life. So in October of 1991, when my daughter was in second grade and my son, first grade, I decided to homeschool. I saw how classrooms operated and felt confident I could do just as good a job of ignoring their individual needs.

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Debbie also maintains a blog on the topic of homeschooling where she posts often about what her life is like after homeschooling. 

The blog also includes her interviews with a wide variety of homeschooling families from around the country. Through the interviews, each family demonstrates how they use the freedom and flexibility of homeschooling in their daily lives.

If you would like to be included in the interviews, contact Debbie today!

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