One of the quietest advantages of homeschooling is also one of the most significant. You are there.
Not for a few hours at the end of the day, piecing together how your child’s day went from a backpack full of papers and a one-word answer to “how was school?” You are present for the mornings when something is off before they can name it, the afternoons when frustration spills over into something bigger than the math problem that triggered it, and the weeks when a child who was open and engaged gradually becomes quieter and harder to reach.