I discovered homeschooling while reading blogs from american mothers.

I had never heard about it before, I think homeschooling simply doesn’t exist in France.

In France we have a very strong and organized welfare state, that’s include completely free educational system from the age of 3 to college ( which is almost free too…), and a lot of financial incentive to keep mothers in the work force .

My husband and I have choosen a private christian school for our 3 children; even if the public system is pretty good, we didn’t wanted our children to suffer the “laicity brainwashing”.

Well, I come back to homeschooling… My 8yods had a very bad accident during the winter vacation, when we were skiing in the Alps, he fall from a chair-lift and he broke both legs and arms (this happen on 2/11)

Thanks to the Lord, all the injuries will be fixed by the end of march, but he can’t go to school and I have to home school him.

It’s amazing for me to discover how wonderful it is. His teatcher give me homework, I complete it with my son in about 1 ½ hour/day. She comes to our home each Wednesday and check this homework with him. I have really discover that one on one teaching is efficient, at the present time my children spend 6 hours/day in school doing what can be completed in 11/2 hour !

As a matter of fact, I will have to go back to work in april, and my son will go back to school, but I’d experiment something very enriching…

I can say that I admire a lot homeschooling mothers for the great job they do