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I'm not sure I would call keeping kids out of kindergarten homeschooling. If you want to homeschool them please do. Having worked in my city's public schools, many homeschooled kids are fine. When they came to our school, it was often because they wanted to go to a regular school when they get older.
I do think one thing, though. I always felt that the reason I have sent my kid to public school is because I wanted her to learn how to navigate the world without me. I wanted her to have experience being in the world on her own, because I feel the whole point of raising a kid is to prepare them to leave you and be independent. I'm sure that home schooled kids do become independent. But regular school is really great training in how to navigate with people you like and don't like and still have to deal with them, do tasks you like and don't like and still have to do them, and deal with authority figures you like or don't like and still have to respect them. Public school really helps with that.
Doesn't anybody use an umbrella stroller anymore? The kind that have a canvas seat, fold up into an umbrella shape of sorts and cost about $15? After the kid can sit up, they work pretty well and don't take up much space at all. My kid is now 16, but in the mid 90's that's pretty much all anybody I knew used. Just wondering.
