I'm so glad that came out right, because there seems to be a majority preference on this forum for home schooling. It can be very difficult to post a dissenting opinion here, or even one that may appear to go against the grain.There is so much educational research that has been done over the years about how children learn, and there truly is no one right or best way to teach. Both of my children are quite different learners--my younger is tactile and needs to manipulate and count and pile up and build, my oldest is visual and needs to read or be shown. And these learning styles don't apply to everything they do, my oldest needs to listen and practice in order to play a musical piece well and with the right mood (although she also sight-reads exceptionally well).
I will exhort home schooling parents to be sure to avail themselves of any and all help as they teach their children at home. You don't have to have all the answers, and you don't need to feel that you have failed in any way if you can't do it alone (or even if you need to put your child into school).
And I will encourage all parents, no matter what education method or style they choose for their parents, to not push their kids. To do anything. They can and will learn to do all things with time, love, guidance, boundaries and space. To roll over, to sit up, to creep/crawl, to walk, to eat, to get along with others, to count, to write their names, to read, to do arithmetic, to assimilate knowledge and combine it with things already learned, to tell time and make change at the store, to take responsibility for their own actions, to drive a car, to separate themselves from their families and to strike out into the world as adults.
