We're a month into it and all is well. We are doing a gap year between elem and middle for a twice skipped 9 year old (unskipping one year). I just hope she wants to go back to school next year! She loves that she goes at her own pace, and she can sing and dance and do somersaults while doing school work. She also loves that she gets a ton of extra curriculars, and that she doesn't have homework. When her brother comes home from school, he has a couple hours of homework while she plays with her elem school friends. (Next year, she and her friends face this homework too)
It's amazing what an active/creative child becomes when you let them free. School is like putting her in the bottle and corking it.
I agree completely. DD8 is such a happier more energetic kid now that she has the freedom to be herself while doing school work.
I don't really know if she will ever want to go back to school, but we'll see, maybe we'll find someplace that will work for her between now and next year, or maybe DH will love homeschooling so much that he'll want to continue doing it.
