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Looking Back: Reflections of a Homeschool Graduate

This week my daughter started studying at the local community college.  I can’t believe how time has flown.  After her first day of school we spent some time together talking about what she remembered about her childhood as a homeschooler.  What did we do well?  What did she remember the most? What did she wish we would have done better? I was taking notes, thinking about writing on the topic, for this blog post, when she asked for the computer and started writing down everything herself.  Then she volunteered to be our guest writer for the day. What follows is her own words, maybe you could call it a concluding evaluation of 12 plus years of homeschool well spent.  In it you will see, through her eyes, a small picture of what homeschool is like in our home.  I hope it will inspire and encourage you to keep going, keep pressing on.  I noticed as we were talking that she mostly remembered the things that I didn’t call school,...