Why Do So Many Parents Think They Can’t Homeschool Their Children?

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It's alarming to see so many insecure parents when it comes to raising and supporting the learning of their *own* children. It's disgusting how the public schools have done such a successful job at brainwashing people into thinking that they need a degree to teach and an institution to learn. 

By Linda Dobson who owns and maintains the website Parent at the Helm, and is the author of many homeschool books.

I’m cutting to the chase. Many parents don’t think they can homeschool their children because their own schooling experience convinced them they’re incapable. Not directly, of course. Instead, it was part of an overall message of incapability that permeated our formative years in school.

You learn not to trust yourself.

Move on command of the school bell…move on command of the factory whistle. Don’t talk in class…don’t talk while you work. Acquiesce autonomy to the teacher…acquiesce autonomy to the boss. Don’t think you can learn on your own…don’t think you can build a better business than the one that employs you and needs your hands, not your head.

What happens? In the institution of school you learn to quietly take a place in yet more institutions. You learn that the only one who can solve a problem is an “expert” who has training you don’t. You learn not to trust yourself.

Top 5 Reasons Parents Give to Not Homeschool

Having dutifully learned the lesson that you are not to be trusted, how could you possibly homeschool your own children?

1) You have no degree. You aren’t an “expert” (trained teacher). Guess what? It’s the “experts” who in increasing numbers are turning to homeschooling and who often have a rougher time of making the transition into a homeschool environment. (Remember, they had additional training in the school institution!)

2) You can’t bear the thought of spending day after day with your children. That’s because your children are spending so much time in the institution where they are steadily – stealthily – learning that they can’t trust themselves, either. You’ll be amazed at the different people your children become when removed from this harmful practice.

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