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Originally Posted by PorscheGAL
This is not a decision you make lightly. You need to be all in. Homeschooling will not erase any anxiety. You and your wife need to look at yourselves, as potential teachers, and ask if you will be able to critique your son's work even if he has anxiety. If he cries, has a panic attack, etc, how will you deal with that? Will you guide him through it or will you cater to his emotion and let him get by. The hardest part is telling your child they failed at an assignment, see that disappointment and making them repeat it so they get it. You must be able to pull away from some of the emotions of a parent and look at homeschooling as a job that needs to be done better than any job you have ever done. The consequence of failure is too great.
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Thanks for this. My wife is a stay-at-home Mom (has been for all our kids) and also has an engineering degree. But...to me that in no way indicates that homeschooling would be easy for her to do. I think she views it as a "fun challenge", but as you mention, "the consequences of failure are too great". I don't think she realizes how hard it would be.
Again, this has been a great discussion. I think I am going to stick to my focus of the anxiety itself. I do realize that one size does not fit all and homeschooling in and of itself isn't a bad thing - I just don't think it is a value-added part of the solution for my son.