Welcome to Our Home School Diary

This is the forth year we home school our children. We are almost half way through the year at the end of Dec 2006. It is shaping out to be the most challenging year, and also perhaps the most rewarding year.

While writing the annual letter to our friends during 2006 Holiday season, I wanted to spend more time writing about home schooling, because it is such as big part of our family life. Not only our children spend most of their day doing school work, something related to their learning, just like most school age kids do. Debbie also spend many many hours each day teaching or learning a certain subject with the kids, sometimes together with other home school families that we co-op. Many nights, Debbie and I would stay up till late, way too late, after kids go to bed to talk about how home schooling -- how we are doing, how it is going and what do we want to accomplish. Home schooling really is more than schools, it takes up the largest part of our family life.

I really cannot say much within one paragraph of a one page letter, but I would like like to. Plus that Debbie and the kids, who are immediate participant of home schooling, probably have a lot more to say then I do. Another reason for writing this down is also to help many of our friends get to know what home schooling is about, and how we do it. I am sure there are as many small variations of how one approaches home schooling as there are home schooling families. Maybe with a bit more understanding, some of our very well meaning friends would stop trying to talk us out of home schooling.

A BLOG could be a good way to keep this record. So here we go...

Guan
Dad, Principal, Chief Financial Officer, Handyman and Janitor.