This women clearly has separation anxiety issues and she’s trying to kill two birds with one stone. Co-sleeping and breast feeding til 3 is borderline insane. With all 3 kids particularly.

All of the well adjusted homeschooled people I’ve met 1) had fairly secular parents and 2) stopped being homeschooled before high school. I think when properly done, such as through a correspondence course, it can be fine through 6th-8th grade. Whether people realize it or not, there is a lot of important social…

I would rather read your essay on this.

For people in the foreign service, I absolutely see why homeschooling would be the best option. But if your job has you regularly relocating to different places around the planet every few years, I think it’s fair to say you’re not a “normal parent”.

I did homeschool abroad too and it was great as a young kid but thank God I got to go to JH and HS because my mom and I would have killed each other. We're very close...too close for her to have been the one making me study Calculus! (Also neither of my super educated parents could have helped me with math or science…

Sure, and that’s fine. I’m not saying it’s never acceptable or anything. But it is telling that when it comes time to discuss cost we get “it’s cheaper than private school” which, I mean.. yeah. Cost is one of the many reasons private school is awful.