Parents of reddit who home - school your kids, or people that were home schooled. Why?

No I think you misunderstand.
having to deal with difficult peers...wasnt the problem, nor the motivation. But rather a pleasant side effect...

As I went into no significant detail beyond....mental health issues...you should not rush to make some uninformed assumption...you havent a clue as to the potential of the situation.

Its not that my girls are your typical whiny pathetic children who break down at the slightest conflict...in fact the problems would have been quite the opposite.

The "difficult peers" life may have been in physical jeopardy. My daughters are the first generation in my family to make it to graduation without medication....or incarceration. I myself spent my final 2 years of childhood in juvenile detention having just narrowly avoided an adult charge of attempted manslaughter. And Im the shining Prince of my family....Im the good one.

Their own mother suffers borderline personality disorder and hasnt been with us since they were 18 months old and she tried to go casey athony on them because they were stealing me away from her.

My earliest memories of my mother are visiting days at local psychiatric care facility with my father. When he died my grandfather signed her out for the funeral...she escaped out a bathroom window..cleaned out my fathers accounts...hit a local shyster...and has never seen a day of mental health care since. My childhood suffered greatly for it...but thats an entirely different story.

My sister was dead by 20....after a long history of in and out treatment or incarceration gaped by prostitution and banging drug dealers.

Her twin, robbed 6 liquor stores at gunpoint in december 1999 fearing y2k.

I could continue with anecdotal examples....but frankly...I see no reason.

I never for a minute considered the benefits of having them outside of that environment until we brought them back into the public schools. It wasnt until we were again confronted with the complete lack of discipline and control of their peers....which may be fine for them...it may be okay that they all run around fucking each other and doing drugs and drinking under age.....But Id rather my daughters not wake up in a drunk tank missing an entire week of their life...as happened to me, and my brother both when we firststarted drinking...or worse.

Regardless of anyone elses arm chair analysis of potential blah blah blah....Ive an actual psychologist and therapist that I trust far more to evaluate the situation.

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