Debbie Gillett

Hello
Hi everyone my name is Debbie. I live in Port Huron, Michigan. I am 38 and will be married to dh for 19 years this july.  We have one dd who is graduating in a week and 1/2 from public schools. I homeschool my two boys 14 and 9.  We brought the oldest home during his 6th grade year and this is the 9yr olds first year home schooling (at his request but was planning on bringing him home this next year but he wanted it sooner). I have aways been interested in unschooling and dh is very for it (what we think in our heads is unschooling) but we still have a bit of deschooling to do ourselves.  I still find myself saying I need to get this math book or this spelling book or history book. Then of course there were days that I felt bad that I was failing them when I was either too busy to get lessons together ect and i felt I was  bad mom and teacher for them because they did not do "enough" schooling for the day. Since day one of bringing home the oldest and after reading many books, I formed the opinnion that there were many things that the "schooled children" were being forced to learn and of that stuff what did we remember today. And when and if we,  today,  want to know something we research it, whether it is from library sources or the internet or calling those who are experts in that particular field. I believe if I teach my children how to find those resources that they will do fine in the future with anything they do in thier lives, but then I am back at beating myself up again that they need to use a math book lol Like I said "I" have to deschool myself.
  I am here hoping you all will be able to guide me with your wisdom and experiences of your unschooing experiences so that I will be able to let go and be one of you.
 Debbie  

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HI Debbie!
 
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he
is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher