Monday 3rd may 2021
My biggest fear and the reason I have always avoided home education up to this point is, am I going to be enough for them?
And I believe the honest answer to this is, yes. I was enough when they were young, I guided them, let them grow, helped them to develop, facilitated their learning and helped them become functional little members of society. Why does that have to stop just because they become of school attending age. Where is it written that parents suddenly aren’t qualified enough to raise and educate our own children? It is a societal expectation that we will send our children off to school when they become of age. I remember the constant calls I received from the local LA when I hadn’t submitted Samantha’s forms for primary school as we were in the final stages of moving house. The constant harassment for me to “get them in” regardless of where I chose because, ‘she just needs to go somewhere’.
What I didn’t realise until recently, when I started looking into home education, is that school is an opt in, we are not led to believe this. I think a big part of why I have always felt like ‘I’m not enough’ for my children is because that is what society has always taught me, I am not enough for them, they need to be in school to become anything. I was wrong, they are wrong. I am everything my children need to succeed. My children are everything they need to succeed, with my help and the help of their Dadda and their Auntie Lela. We’ve got this.
I think I’ve got this!
