{"id":52,"date":"2019-08-26T02:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-08-21T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:42:30","slug":"what-kind-of-weirdos-homeschool-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"What kind of weirdos homeschool in Iowa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">In my years of homeschooling I have met all kinds of homeschooling moms.   I have met homeschoolers from Christ centered faiths and I have met atheists homeschooling families.  I have met anti-government, intrusion fearing homeschooling parents.&nbsp; I have met conservative parents and socialist parents that choose to homeschool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">I have met homeschool moms with dread locks.&nbsp; I have met plant based diet homeschool families and those who raise their own meat.  &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">I have met engineers who homeschool their children.  I even met a public school science teacher who homeschools.&nbsp; I have met therapists who homeschool along with attorneys and bankers.&nbsp; I have met moms who left careers to homeschool and those who never started careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">I have met wealthy people and poor people who homeschool.&nbsp; I have met well dressed parents and poorly dressed parents.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have met parents who smell like essential oils and those who smell like they could use a shower.&nbsp; I have met homeschool parents who are professors, pastors, adoptive and foster parents.&nbsp; I have met parents who started their kids in public school and changed their mind.&nbsp; I have even met parents who have kids in public school and keep some at home.&nbsp; I have met strong dominant personalities and quiet calm parents.&nbsp; I have met parent\u2019s who curse and those who don\u2019t.&nbsp; I have met those who drink and those who don\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">So the weirdos in Iowa who homeschool come in all types, all socio-economic backgrounds.&nbsp; The reason for their choices vary as widely as the differences in the parents themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">Sometimes it\u2019s bullying, sometimes it is avoiding government intrusion, sometimes they feel the kitchen table is a better learning environment than the classroom and sometimes they do it because they can. Some do it solely to create stronger family ties and bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">The common thread with these weirdo parents is that they love their children and want what\u2019s best.&nbsp; Very much like the kind of parents you meet at Public or Private schools in every community in every state in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">Happy Homeschooling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my years of homeschooling I have met all kinds of homeschooling moms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-homeschool-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}