ChrissySC Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I am giving away my age, but I have been home-educating since 1996.:glare: 15 Years - Yes, I was there for the first edition of WTM and the first forum. I have graduated one dd, with a GED by the way. She is in nursing school after taking a few years to work. She has a 3.8 GPA. I afterschool for the first few years of their academic studies. I believe that the girls benefit and value homeschooling from their experience as well as develop social skills that I would be hard pressed to develop myself. This includes the "class clown" and the "yelling girl" or even the "bully." Consider your afterschooling when counting your years too! Regardless if the public school is the "spine" for their education, you are home educating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upward Journey Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 14 :) My oldest is graduated and getting married next month, my youngest is just finishing kindergarten. Somedays I can't believe I'm still at this. I didn't really think of homeschooling as something that I'd be doing for.ev.er when I first started. Of course, I didn't think that I'd have 5 kids back then either :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We are finishing our 6th year. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 This is my first year of homeschooling full time, but I was afterschooling for two years prior. I hope to be able to make a post like yours in another 14 yrs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Well...my eldest is 18. But, I suppose 'officially home educating' would be 4 yrs now. We pulled Diva out of gr 3. Although, I think it should be a tally. Add up all the kids ages, and go by that, cause MAN, are they demanding, exhausting and different. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We HE for seven years. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 11 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Nineteen years and counting. But my babies are almost 17 now, and they don't need me much. They're getting ready for ACTs and such, I really don't teach anymore. Oldest out of college and married and almost 18 yr old finishing her sophmore year of college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 So, oldest bio-daughter .5 time for 2 years, 3.5 more with hs her.... then hs son (since birth? :) But he's 7.5 so... 2.5 years?? And then, I was hs from the time I was 10 on up... :) (I think that means 5 years for this thread :)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Three years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 4 years, but I guess I've been dabbling in afterschooling since 2002-ish, and began helping ds learn to read around 2000. 18 more years to go! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyzenthlay in Pa. Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 24 years, 4 graduated, 2 to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 My eldest is in ninth grade, we've always homeschooled. This is our tenth "official" year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Finishing our 10th year, by the grace of God! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose in BC Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Ten years. My two oldest are in Grade 9 and have always been homeschooled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 4 yrs, not including preK. I did PreK with my oldest so that i could learn to teach him. Formal lessons for 6yrs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anissa Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Nine years and counting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Finishing up our 16th year... 4 graduated...1 graduated from college and married, 2 in college...1 apprenticed to his dad for another year or 2 before going to business school... 3 more homeschooling....going into grades 8, 4, & 2. Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyto4 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I am about 5 weeks from completing our first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 DS1 4.5 years DS2 (his autistic twin) 1 year DD1 3.5 years DD2 5.5 years some kids overlapped - only ONE year did I have all four at once - 2 years I had two at once - rest of time one kid only. Who stayed home year by year depended on 1. the kid and their needs, 2. what the local school offered. I have done 1st through 8th grade between one kid or the other. I think 7 years or so in a row? No one is home, now, but you folks are too interesting to leave!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiobrain Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Going on 8, officially. I think. When it is part of your lifestyle, it all gloms together..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We're finishing our seventh year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Just finishing up our 4th year. 7 more to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I count from official K (5 yo,) so this is our tenth year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I just finished our 10th year homeschooling. I started homeschooling Pre-K and I definitely count it because I used a curriculum and we sat down and did school at the kitchen table. I had high expectations back then, but it was a fun year, and I still have fond memories of that year and love looking back at the portfolio. Well, I like looking back at all of our portfolio's. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Um, 9 years, since that's how old my oldest is. But she's only just finished third grade, so 4 years (based on how many it would have been if she was in public school), yet only finishing up our first year of official (ie report to the state/school district) homeschooling. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertDweller Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 This is our fourteenth year. Ds is graduated. Dd has two more years to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Eight years, since the spring my oldest was in first grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamajudy Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 20 years, 3 more to go. I have graduated 3 so far. My oldest is graduating from medical school this month. Two are in college, and my youngest 2 are finishing up 10th and 9th grades. It's been an awesome journey and a real blessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeatherM2 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 10 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula in PA Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We've homeschooled from the beginning (kindy), so are finishing up our 6th year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycalling Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 4th official year, but we did some lessons in Pre-k/K. I guess, 6 total years. I never know how to count those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Sixteen done, three or four more to go with the youngest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Five years. Four longer than I thought we'd be LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phathui5 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Since 2004- 7 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeTea Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We are wrapping up our third year here, which has been 5th-6th-7th grade for the youngest child. Prior to that, all the kids were full-time public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeinMT Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Finishing up our 7th year, doesn't seem like that long! (Ok, some days it seems a lot longer.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeW88 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 17 years this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 K4 to the far curve of 3rd grade, using WTM and this nice board for help the whole time. If my health holds, I think we might get all the way through. Not that I'm sick, but when your friends start having heart attacks and dying of cancer, you have to at least think of plan B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfoot Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 This is our 10th year. I can hardly believe it, even as I type it... We've had our ups and downs, deal with learning disabilities and various therapies, etc, etc, but I honestly can't imagine doing things any other way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Eleven years. Hard to believe - we made the *for sure* decision to not send dd back to private school for 1st grade in about 40 minutes one day, at the very last minute. :) We'd discussed homeschooling, but I never really expected we'd actually follow through with our crazy talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We are about to finish our 3rd year as official homeschoolers. However I've been a SAHM since dd was born, so if you count her pre-K years it's more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I've got 8 years under my belt so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We're finishing year 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabyBre Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I thought it was 7, but it's 8 years! Time sure flies. Ds18 homeschooled (w part-time private school attentance) from 5th-8th, is now graduating public high school, working two jobs, and trying to decide if he should take a summer off before he joins the Coast Guard. Dd10 and ds8 homeschooled before entering public school in 1st grade and K respectively. They've afterschooled for 4 years with public school primarily supplemental to our work at home. Dd is eligible for our district's gifted program and we hope she's drawn for a full-time spot next year. Ds is currently being tested for the program. Gosh, I'm proud. Thanks for the chance to toot my own horn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Officially, we're finishing our 9th year. Unofficially... December 2000 I found TWTM 1st edition at Barnes and Noble. In January 2001 I started homeschooling my oldest using it's recommendations for 4 yos. A few months later I discovered the WTM forums. The rest is history, as they say. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I've been at this for 12 years and I also was a part of the old WTM boards! Of course then I only went on the curriculum site - NEVER visited the general board. :001_smile: I missed out on a LOT!;):D My boys started school 5 years ago. Oldest went to high school with dual enrollment in the 11th grade and is in college. My younger son is in 10th and will also graduate form high school. No matter how overwhelmed I get, school outside the home will NOT happen with my girls. There are other options than school away from home. By the time my youngest graduates I will be 58 and will have homeschooled for 22 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 8 years. I tutored one kid and taught the other PreK before DD started A-Squared at 3 (and she was reading at 3 and a half). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Just finished our third year. I only count from Becca's K year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I am giving away my age, but I have been home-educating since 1996. I've also been home-educating since 1996 when my oldest was in first grade. He graduated from our home school with a 4.0 high school GPA. He is now a senior in college, with a 3.6296 GPA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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