I think home school is ALWAYS an option. Change your standard of living. You don't need a nice house, we live in a small house I HATE but it's a place to live. I don't have to have a newer, nice, perfect house. I have a house built in the 1920's, added on in 1945, then 1947, then 1980, It's a building mess. The floors are slanted, we used to play with the kids putting the marble in one place and laughing as it went to another part of the house. But it is solid now that my husband has dug under it and created a mock foundation (it was built originally on tree stumps and a car jack). Don't have new cars, the new phone when it comes out, all the shiny new things... live modestly. Use coupons. Downscale holidays. Buy used than thrift... take advantage of people spending their money then donating or selling, then get the deal on the nice stuff. Our vacations are going with my husband when he's on a business trip, or doing home repairs on his vacation days. It sucks, yeah.. but it's for the ability to homeschool my kids.
They are learning how to invest, how to save, how to cook... how to live without so they can live with a bigger reward!!!!
You know that's the way to be. You sounded almost like many of the first generation Americans. They do without the shiny new gadgets so their kids can learn earn good marks in school.
I am always respectful of those people instead of living on credit with new shiny things.
Depending on how you want to live. There are people I know who have 4 kids and on one income. Husband isn't a Silicon CEO nor some high income wage earner either. He's a truck driver for a company.
I’m hoping that will change with the upcoming new economy. Also working at home is becoming more of an option. Of course homeschooling and remote work are not necessarily compatible but some part-timer workers can make it happen. I worked at home in the ‘90s when I had babies— but really had to twist arms to carve out this option for myself.
Also working at home is becoming more of an option.
In Commonsense Land, it would be.
Unfortunately, we live in Clown World, where the exact opposite is taking place: forcing remote workers back into the mind-numbing hellish existence of:
a. commute among other lemmings in heavy traffic inside shiny box to office-politics cell
b. perform work behaviors within office-politics cell until finally released
c. commute home among other lemmings from office-politics cell in heavy traffic inside shiny box
The majority of workers lead lives of quiet desperation because they have to arise at an hour they don't want to arise at, leave a home they don't want to leave, and get in traffic they don't want to be in, to get to an office they don't want to go to, at an hour they don't want to be there, and do work they don't want to do, with people they can't stand, for a boss or company that doesn't appreciate or respect them, for money they find inadequate...and they get to do that five days a week for three to four decades. This they call "living life."
Home school people.
I think home school is ALWAYS an option. Change your standard of living. You don't need a nice house, we live in a small house I HATE but it's a place to live. I don't have to have a newer, nice, perfect house. I have a house built in the 1920's, added on in 1945, then 1947, then 1980, It's a building mess. The floors are slanted, we used to play with the kids putting the marble in one place and laughing as it went to another part of the house. But it is solid now that my husband has dug under it and created a mock foundation (it was built originally on tree stumps and a car jack). Don't have new cars, the new phone when it comes out, all the shiny new things... live modestly. Use coupons. Downscale holidays. Buy used than thrift... take advantage of people spending their money then donating or selling, then get the deal on the nice stuff. Our vacations are going with my husband when he's on a business trip, or doing home repairs on his vacation days. It sucks, yeah.. but it's for the ability to homeschool my kids.
They are learning how to invest, how to save, how to cook... how to live without so they can live with a bigger reward!!!!
You know that's the way to be. You sounded almost like many of the first generation Americans. They do without the shiny new gadgets so their kids can learn earn good marks in school.
I am always respectful of those people instead of living on credit with new shiny things.
Good for you… you value family and sound creative and fun.
Most families require two incomes due to all the 'free trade' the rats been pushing for 40 years. Home school isnt an option for most.
Depending on how you want to live. There are people I know who have 4 kids and on one income. Husband isn't a Silicon CEO nor some high income wage earner either. He's a truck driver for a company.
I’m hoping that will change with the upcoming new economy. Also working at home is becoming more of an option. Of course homeschooling and remote work are not necessarily compatible but some part-timer workers can make it happen. I worked at home in the ‘90s when I had babies— but really had to twist arms to carve out this option for myself.
In Commonsense Land, it would be.
Unfortunately, we live in Clown World, where the exact opposite is taking place: forcing remote workers back into the mind-numbing hellish existence of:
a. commute among other lemmings in heavy traffic inside shiny box to office-politics cell
b. perform work behaviors within office-politics cell until finally released
c. commute home among other lemmings from office-politics cell in heavy traffic inside shiny box
The majority of workers lead lives of quiet desperation because they have to arise at an hour they don't want to arise at, leave a home they don't want to leave, and get in traffic they don't want to be in, to get to an office they don't want to go to, at an hour they don't want to be there, and do work they don't want to do, with people they can't stand, for a boss or company that doesn't appreciate or respect them, for money they find inadequate...and they get to do that five days a week for three to four decades. This they call "living life."