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Why do I Homeschool my child?

"Why did you decide to Home-school your child?" is a question I have been asked very often. I have given different answers to different people, but the honest answer is, I knew no better. Bam! I said it! I really couldn't have it any other way! Just like for some the natural and obvious thing to do is to put kids in school, this was my natural organic way of doing things! I got introduced to Breastfeeding as the natural way, followed by a number of things that I followed, like Baby-led weaning (children self-feeding from the age of 6 months), Baby-wearing, Cloth-diapering, Gentle Parenting, Natural term weaning (I nurtured my child till he was 4.5years old) and in the same scheme of things, the concept of Homeschooling. For me, Homeschooling was just the natural progression from all of these that I was already following. I still remember one of the first homeschoolers I met, to whom I asked what is homeschooling? What she said was so simple, yet as an after thought, so p