

Add the privilege and burden of home education to the mix, and you’ve upped the stakes one thousand percent!Īs you fashion a philosophy and prepare your practices, your children defy you.

The twin tugs of responsibility to raise a child “correctly” and abject powerlessness in the face of a child’s pain and struggle, leave us ambivalent and self-doubting. There’s no training, no “practice run with pretend children.” You are thrust into the love affair quite unprepared for the consuming demands on your time and heart, even if you’ve read a library’s worth of parenting manuals in advance.
