This and this and this- Priceless.

K¹² is a top-notch, thorough, challenging curriculum.

Homeschooling provides  provides amazing ability to individualize education for each of my kids.

Our kids have gotten a world-class education.

All true statements. And I’m not saying any of this because I work for K¹².

None of this is lip-service.  I mean every one of those statements.

But I have to tell you what the very best thing has been about our 16 years of schooling at home and what  it has done for my kids and our family.

It’s this:

And this: 

 And this:

And this:

It’s the gift of family time. 

Watching the kids grow close. Watching them play and learn together. Laughing.  Creating. (OK, even bickering.)

It’s been watching their personalities be shaped by our collective family experiences and enhanced time together. It’s the time together and the times apart, missing one another, and seeing the crew come back together. My kids miss one another when they are apart.

It’s family meals, even with finicky eaters. And it’s having the kids, at younger and older ages, verbally tell me that family meals mattered…were important to them…and that they wanted to have them often during the week.

Family is the priority. The kids are the priorities. They are priorities together and apart.

And they grow and are gone so quickly from our home.Homeschooling is allowing us to send intelligent, educated, literate, well-rounded adults out into the world.

But it’s helped me give them something else. 

The kids have memories of family, of one another, and time together that they would not have had otherwise.

Thanks, K¹² and homeschooling, for the Family Time. 

Priceless.