Keeping Up

Denise, After speaking with you, I wanted to tell you why I decided to homeschool Stephen.   You asked me if I ever regret my choice, and I have to be honest, there are days he tires me out and I want to enroll him back into public school.   But then I take a break and realize how far he has come in our homeschool journey.   He is already so much healthier in both his self-esteem and his determination to learn.   My decision began with him complaining about bullying at school, and that worried me.   It worried me even more when I realized that not only was the school not dealing with it, but Stephen was actually learning from these experiences.   He was learning how to bully others.   I was so embarrassed when I witnessed how he was losing friends because he was using inappropriate social behavior to get his way.   That is not the child I spent so much time and love raising!   It had to stop.   So I began looking into what I could do. When I was looking around online, I