Before we had kids we thought homeschooling would be the best and most natural way to teach our children. And we talked about all kinds of different ways to do that, from splitting up the teaching between the two of us to connecting with a few other homeschoolers and each parent taking a day to teach all the kids so no one parent bore the burden of teaching every day.
But we love our work and felt we had the most value to give by pursuing our work full time. On many levels we still think homeschooling offers significant advantages to a child, but we are not parents for whom homeschooling would work out too well, so we send the kids to school and supplement with real world teachings at home.
we want to encourage our children to pursue their passions, not ours, so we watch to see what they love to do and try to get them involved in those things at a higher level. It's sort of fun to see how they are developing. Emily is very physical. Cartwheels, flips, monkey bars, these are all things I was unable to do as a child so it's really neat for me to watch her do well in these areas. She's also tremendously gifted in art (my mom is a professional artist so I wonder if she got some of that talent from her). I think she'll be a good athlete but so far she isn't interested in pursuing anything formally or on a team. So far, Kyle's forte seems to be Halo.
