Found out my in-laws need to give us a talking to

[CircleSlide]

Our family has home schooled for about 4 years but we placed them in private/public school for two years. This just didn't work out for our kids nor for our family so we have decided that home is the best place for them to learn, and starting this fall we are teaching them all.

I found out last week, through our kids, that my in-laws are going to give us (the parents) "a talking to".:rolleyes The kids are very excited to be home schooled again and are looking forward to it. I guess I am just ranting but come on, we need a talking to??? Our own nephew has failed his senior year twice now and they think that is better? :doh I guess they are going to tell us the way it should be, and how much better public school is and how much better the kids will be if.... This is an ongoing issue with them with almost everything, they are very controlling:nope.

[topekaclark]

Praying for you. I've come to the point, homschooling is something that we have been called to and it's our kids, not up for discussion, period.

[NewWorldOrder]

HA!!! Your inlaws need the talking to. How dare they tell your kids that you need a talking to. They were out of line by not coming to you with their concerns, but instead said it to your children.

Boundaries, mama, boundaries. :tsk

[HISDaughter]

:pray

[Lucy]

I just hate confrontation. Is there any way their son (your husband, the kids dad) could go over and have a little sit down with them about "boundaries"?
It would be nice if it could be handled without ill feelings...:pray:hug
If that is not possible, you have to do what is best for your family and you know what that is better than anyone else. I am sorry it has to be that way with them, as they don't know what they are missing.

[BusyMommy]

HA!!! Your inlaws need the talking to. How dare they tell your kids that you need a talking to. They were out of line by not coming to you with their concerns, but instead said it to your children.

Boundaries, mama, boundaries. :tsk

Exactly! :hat

Perhaps some good statistics and/or articles showing how well homeschooling students perform on college entrance exams would prove helpful when they "have the talk" with you guys.

[WalkTheLine]

I remember that talk, :aha I now have two in College a High School Sophomore and the last in 6th Grade. All home schooled.

I point out all the things my kids didn't learn in a public school. Like promiscuity, cussing, drug use, rebellion, and idolatry (worship of the creation not the creator) just to name a few.

[Amber Lynne]

If possible, fall asleep in the middle of the "talking to". It will give them something to "talk about". Indeed!

[CircleSlide]

All good ideas, but my father in law has become a bitter man. I am not even sure what about? But lately he has become socialist in his beliefs, he reads only liberal information and watches NBC. My dh is the youngest and we have been married for 21 years. My dh has always walked a very fine line with them, allowing them to have contact with us but not letting them control us, which is what they did with his other two brothers. He has always done a very good job of protecting us from them, but he now feels we should not have contact with them (which I tend to agree with). My dh has talked with them in the past regarding our faith and he has shared with them, they both said yes we believe. But they attend no church and do not read the bible.

They come up once a month and take the kids out for the day, which has been nice but their behavior has always been very strange. Once I found them going through our trash cans, I mean they were literally taking the trash out of our kitchen trash can and placing it in another trash bag, of course that is the can that had all our our mail in it. They also buy my dh underwear?? deodorant?? It is just weird stuff like that. I mean my dh is 41 years old.

I know my dh would share stories of his childhood and they always sounded abusive to me but he would always brush it off, now as my dh is getting older I think he is beginning to see what his childhood was really like.

Well anyway I digress. He just feels that it will do more harm than good to speak with them about this. So now we can't discuss, politics, health care, retirement, anything about the government, anything about terrorism, and now our kids education, yeap they are going to be fun to make small talk with.:heh

[JPE]

I stopped homeschooling when my son finished 2nd grade because my in-laws strongly disapproved of homeschooling.

I still regret it.

Don't cave. The decision is ultimately yours and your husband's, not theirs.