"I am wanting some advice. Maybe some of the veteran homeschoolers can help me. I have been homeschooling my boys for 4 years now. I have loved every minute of it. My only problem is trying to get my husband involved. I have asked for his input on what he wants for our boys (course of study, activities, future plans, etc.). His answer is always "You are doing a good job. I trust you.". While I appreciate the vote of confidence on his part, I would love to have his input on what he wants. He never asks what they are learning or how is their work going. So how do you all get your husbands involved in homeschooling? I especially think with sons that his involvement could help me. Any suggestions?" - Dena
Dads are involved in many ways in the homeschooling of their children, some more than others. It's helpful to hear about what others are doing. Here are some ways the dads are involved, shared by the members of the homeschool forum.
- From Nysee2 - "On his days off or sometimes when he gets home in the evening I do things like say "Boy I've had a busy day. WIll you do me a favor and go over these things with her? Here is what we are doing. I need to take a long hot bath" or catch up on bills, cleaning, phone calls whatever excuse you can use..."
- From HomeschoolLady03 - "My husband does not help with teaching at all. I really haven't asked him too. I do all the formal teaching, along with planning, legal documentation, and grading papers. BUT, he is there for us in other ways..."
- From Janet - "My husband is away from home over 12 hours a day 5 days a week. It just doesn't leave him much time to do hands on homeschooling, but he'd really like to. So we've come up with some fun ways to sneak time in for him..."
- From Nettiezoom - "My DH is disabled, so he's been home with us instead of working for 6 years. At the beginning of our 2nd year, he got thrown into HSing in one heck of a hurry..."
- From Danestress7 - "The way I see it, my husband has a job and I have a job. Homeschooling is my job. He doesn't participate unless he wants to be cause he already has his own job. Parenting is OUR job and he parents plenty..."
- From RippleRiver - "My DH is very involved with homeschooling, but no way is he interested in the planning part. I love to plan what we're going to do, but that is simply not something my DH will ever do..."
- From Julie - "DH and DS do Science & Bible together as their "guy time" on evenings or weekends. It's very important to both of them. At lunch (DH comes home) and dinner, I have DS talk to Dad about what he learned that day..."
- From Nic - "My husband teaches Science, Geography and Spanish. I do the rest. He and I discussed this long before we decided to HS. I was not prepared to teach every subject. Also I didn't want to HS alone..."
