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Parenting, Co-parenting & Homeschooling
I'm a dad to two boys, 9 & 8. I'm the step-dad to two, an 8 year old boy and 10 year old girl. It's hard and extremely rewarding. A person can live an extremely good life and not be a parent, but not me.
Having a different home to my boys' mother allows for more flexibility in my style of parenting, but more scope for friction with her's. Being a step-parent means I'm a very closely watched role model for them, and that presents its own challenges.
This makes everything harder, but for us it's the right fit for now. The state government has a curiculum council in its education department, which gives quite clear ideas about which skills should be focused on and attained at about which year. It's not prescriptive, but as a rule, most schools follow it, and I do too. Well, I follow it less strictly than the local state school, but waaaaaay more closely than the local Steiner school does. This is probably the area I'll write the most gemlogs on.
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