| 1.) Have control over the material your child learns. | | | | owners in person, instead of through a worksheet. |
| Worldview included! | | | | 8.) To know your child can answer the questions |
| 2.) Decide with your child the depth and duration | | | | of strangers and relatives with more than a few |
| of topical studies. To skim the main ideas or to | | | | noises or a noncommittal shrug, that they know |
| delve into the deepest detail of whatever topic! | | | | the reasons behind decisions and how to |
| 3.) Never again be a slave to the school year or | | | | enunciate them. |
| the school day: go to the grocery store and the | | | | 9.) For the freedom to educate the way you see |
| amusement park when you want to, not the | | | | fit- be it stringently organized and monitored or |
| same week as everyone else! | | | | loosely flowing from skill to skill. |
| 4.) Be the major influence in the shaping of your | | | | 10.) For the community of similarly-believing |
| child, instead of his peer group! | | | | families and the support that comes from those |
| 5.) For the ability to take advantage of all the | | | | who understand the difficulties and joys of such a |
| opportunities for interesting, character-shaping | | | | lifestyle-shaping choice. |
| talks with your child as they arise. | | | | 11.) For the joy of spending each day with the |
| 6.) Delight in the fact that your children will be able | | | | children you love and observing them as they |
| to interact and converse with all age groups, not | | | | journey to adulthood. |
| just their own. | | | | 12.) For the assurance that no other teacher could |
| 7.) For the fact that your kids will be able to | | | | ever care more or try harder than the one your |
| investigate "community helpers" and business | | | | children had... you. |