transitioning from school to home

When you pul your child out of school take a break for a period of time, it is called unschooling or deschooling. After you take a break ease back in by reading books together on various topics that might peak his interests to dig deeper, and go from there. When transitioning out of brick and mirror schools you as a parent need to remember not to bring school home. That is what he was trying to get away from. That is why you brought him home, so teach him differently than worksheets and textbooks. 

When I first started homeschooling my son who's now 14 many years ago she decided he wanted to sit on the bed he was very eager to learn and I was going through this book and it had lesson plans and I'm not a teacher I'm an engineer I don't know how to go through lesson plans and do all this other stuff but I do have I do know how to read to my son and have conversations with my son and that is what is natural. Reading to your child is the most natural thing in the world of parenting. When you start when they're infants and you're showing them the pictures and you're making all those funny sounds and noises and voices for each character you're animated and you're making it fun and engaging and that's what your children love. So on a subconscious level honestly I think that's what made me gravitate to the Socratic method and the Charlotte Mason method of the feast of living books. It just made sense yeah you could have worksheets and sit down and write things and notebooks and stuff because you have to reflect on those things you have to get all of those thoughts out of your head and put them on paper and read and read them and reanalyze them as you get older. I'm just now coming to this realization as I'm writing this post after many years of educating my children in this manner I didn't realize how simple and natural it was until I was looking over Facebook posts and it just dawned on me why are we doing worksheets,? Why are we even putting our children through this rigorous work that even we don't want to do as adults when we're sitting in an office for 8 hours a day. Then it also dawned on me that John Taylor got us said it best we're f****** the life out of children we're sucking the creativity the passion the drive we just want them to be mindless drones punching a clock following a bell doing all kinds of mindless things which is why so many people are discontent. They don't follow their passions. I was reading to my oldest child he is full of passion he is animated he is articulate and confident and he shows that in his theater he shows that in his coding he shows that in his painting and his art he is a natural leader because he is confident to raise his voice and ask questions. My middle child he's a little bit shy and introverted like I am but when it matters he raises his voice he speaks up when it matters he makes sure that he is heard when it counts and matters the most he knows when to follow but he definitely knows when to lead or at the very least nominate somebody else. I'm sure if he gets older that will change he is only 11 and he does have an older brother who has a very strong voice and a mother who is just as strong-willed but I'm sure that once he gets out on his own that lion that lays in weight will definitely roar louder than the rest. And I really believe I can attribute it to them have open discussions, making their own decisions, and given the space to make their opinions heard through socratic discourse and family meetings.