So are you a secular homeschooler ?

It is so hard for some people to come out the closet on this topic. Let me be the first to SHOUT IT OUT "I am a secular homeschooler and proud of it!"  You would be amazed at all the secular homeschool blogs that are out there and the educational lessons that some of these families are doing! I have to admit that most of them are so wonderful that I feel almost ashamed that I am not doing the same types of things with my boys. (and yes I gleam some of their ideas to use with the boys too) Secular homeschoolers are free thinkers who almost always go outside the box to teach their kiddos. Now I am not saying the religious based homeschoolers don't do some amazing things, because they do. I do have several friends (believe it or not) that homeschool with Christian based curricula even though they are not homeschooling for religious reasons. Some find that these types of curricula often offer a lot of structure which they desire BUT just so you know there are secular homeschool curriculum out there as well! There many families that take a Christian based curriculum and tweak it to their families needs. I did that my first year of homeschooling, I took FIAR and just omitted the stories/lessons that I didn't feel were necessary for us. Of course, we also were doing a secular based program (Time4Learning.com) at the time as a supplement to our FIAR lessons. It worked great for us.

It feels good to come out doesn't it! Yes not an easy thing to do in the bible belt areas of the US but there are secular groups creeping up all over the place.