I am also toying with the idea of homeschooling. I feel really inept, but a homeschooling mom encouraged me with, "Nobody knows how to educate a child better than his mother." I am going to a conference next month, I think.
Do you know what curriculum you're going to be doing? I hope to join a co-op so somebody can help me with the subjects I feel weaker in. It is surprisingly common here so I don't think I will have a hard time finding anybody to join up with, but it will mainly be more of an issue when he is older. (Math makes me stabby and I feel incredibly insecure about it, despite working in finance for 12 years.)


Re: JnK (Or Anyone Else Into Homeschooling)
I have been joking to DH about homeschooling M since I was pregnant with her. But I'm really not joking as much as he thinks, I am very interested in seriously looking into it.
My problem is, I'm not very well educated about the particulars
When I was a kid, other kids that were homeschooled were not socialized at all, and they were typically VERY socially awkward. It is not like that anymore, at least not here. There are so many homeschooled kids that it is no longer "weird" families chu
We are already part of a 4H co-op. Their values fall in line with ours, and it's nice to be able to get the kids out on the land and working with families who do own dairies, farms, etc. We're not talking child labor, we're talking side-sho