text: For some people it works and for others it doesn't.  Frankly, a lot of moms that are gungho about home schooling are the last ones that should home school.  Education is far more than reading, writing, and arithmetic.  Many of the women I've seen that home school do so because they have issues.  Their fears are diminished when they can hover over th kids.  Their primary motivation is to protect their children from the world (worldliness).  Often, these women are isolated socially -- so their kids get raised with little or no social interaction and they do not know how to relate to their peer.\n\nSo for homeschooling to work:\n1.  Mom and Dad need active social lives (so social isolationists).\n2.  The kids need lots of outside activities with other kids, constant-on-going, never quiting sports, church groups, music and foreign language lessons, dance lessons, etc.\n3.  Mom AND Dad need to be committed to the process.  To do it right, it is very time consuming and expensive, certainly $1500 bucks per kid per year minimum to cover all the extracurricular classes and materials when the kids are little - more as the kids age.\n4.  Need groups of other homechooling families to network and plan activities with.\n5. There are lots more, but these are the biggies.