Protecting our kids
by Summer Minor
When I wrote yesterday about negative peer pressure and homeschooling I didn’t expect to get such great responses. The Homeschool Blog asked can or should we protect our kids and answered the question wonderfully.
We can’t expect to be able to protect them completely from the negative parts of the world they live in. But we can be there with them when they encounter these things, we can guide them through the negativity, and we can give them the tools to help them learn how to move through it on thier own when they are old enough.
How do you feel about protecting our children while homeschooling? I’d love to hear more of your opinions.
homeschooling, children, parenting
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July 25th, 2007 at 6:34 am
We are new homeschoolers, but I do hope to ‘protect’ my kids to a certain degree. Things like bullying, fighting, teasing—I think I can keep stuff like this from affecting them at an early age. I also want my kids to have a ‘real’ childhood and not feel the pressure to grow up so fast.
I am not trying to keep them in a bubble; quite the contrary—it is more about being there as a guide and knowing what is going on in their lives so that we can deal with things as they happen.