Yesterday my first original piece was published on BLUNTmoms.
It was a tough piece to write, stemming from some of the comments I received on my “Homeschool: In My Defense” which was a response to the many comments I got on my “Teachers, This is Not About You” post which was also published on Huffington Post.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes our stories are hard to tell. Sometimes our realities make us feel like a failure even when things are out of our control. But sometimes our stories can help others get through the same things.
This is our homeschooling truth, the WHOLE truth, and one we’ve shared with few people before now. But it is time. It is time to acknowledge that these things are not normal and they are NOT okay:
[…] are still part of a lesser-known and very misunderstood group. We are modern homeschoolers who chose this path for a multitude of reasons but are still looked at as the “outliers,” assumed […]