I was homeschooled for about 5 years, my family pulled me after 6th grade due to fun issues with school as well.

I now run my own consulting company and attend a local community college.

My son is 6, and we've been unschooling all along.

We never plan to send him to school, (unless he wants to when he's older), because of our personal experiences with school.

I've been homeschooling for five years. My sons are 12 and 3 and my daughter is 8. I started homeschooling when my older son was 8 and again, it was due to issues we had with the school system.

I have been homeschooling my son for 10 years now and my daughter just about 8 months she was in the 8th now shes in the 11 I hope they are finished with in the next year we send their test in to the school we go through but all the works done here at home and as you can see my spelling is very bad lol so grandma helped with that lol

We've been homeschooling since 1999, when we pulled our 2nd grader from public school -- again, issues with the school system itself as well as learning styles.

Hello, I'm new to the tribe, glad to find some entries! I am not currently homeschooling but if my circumstances would allow it, I'd be there again in a flash. I did homeschool however for 12 years. I have seven children and started homeschooling when my oldest was a second grader(1983). We moved to the country when she was in the 5th grade and the small school district we moved into is far superior to the city schools. I started a more partnership type relationship with the public schools when we moved here. By the time my youngest was ready for school I had to go to work to help support this inhouse "tribe" and have not homeschooled her at all. She is currently in the seventh grade. I still miss the idyllic life of being home centered. My older children are very different from my younger three, there are good things about each group, but it is very much like they are growing up in different families. Same mom, same dad but very different circumstances. My advice to homeschooling parents is to avoid comparing your child's knowledge and progress too much to the school systems. It takes less time to learn at home and you learn alot more in the time you use. All my children were able to mainstream with the schools fairly seamlessly but I was constantly worried they weren't up to snuff in something. I did regret accelerating one of my children when I had her go to school. Academically she was fine but she wasn't prepared for the social pressures of high school a year younger than her peers. I think the greatest gift of homeschooling is the realistic attitude towards authority figures homeschooled children seem to have. My children awe me in their lack of fear of authority. On the one hand they don't tend to bend and on the other hand they're generally admired by authority figures. I'm not sure why they are not "pleasers". I always have been!
Don't get discouraged, you are all doing a great thing! My girls (6 girls, one son,he was only homeschooled when really small) all express gratitude for being homeschooled and plan to do the same with their children.