This is Why I Homeschool My Daughter
Freedom

- Freedom to raise my own children, to actually be their parent.
- Freedom to travel whenever we like and prefer (NOT on school holidays when all the venues are overcrowded and prices are sky-high).
- Freedom to be a family.
- Freedom to dive deeply into topics that interest us and not be forced to move on.
- Freedom to meet my children where they are as individuals.
- Freedom to restructure our days when what was working is no longer working.
- Freedom to sleep in.
- Freedom to stay up late.
- Freedom to take a field trip any day of the week.
- Freedom to live a fully integrated life.
- Freedom to look into other perspectives on a topic.
- Freedom from indoctrination.
- Freedom to choose from ALL the pathways.
- Freedom to NOT be a square peg forced into a round hole.
- Freedom to not be regulated by the school calendar.
- Freedom to use the toilet at any time without asking permission.
- Freedom to be a whole person.
- Freedom to learn through conversation rather than being lectured to.
- Freedom to take breaks as needed.
- Freedom to play with children of all ages and not be segregated by age.
- Freedom to go and fly a kite in a perfect day.
- Freedom to study outdoors.
FREEDOM in all the varied ways that it manifests itself.
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