#32 Expecting too much from experts...
Homeschooling, like parenting, is very personal, and while experts can provide ideas, insight and advice, and can definitely help navigate the legalities of homeschooling, they can't tell you what is best for your child. You are the expert when it comes to your child, and you have to sort through the myriad of options and figure out the best path forward. If someone does try to tell you exactly how to homeschool your kids, I'd recommend you approach the situation with a lot of skepticism.
This is better expressed in Home Education Magazine's editorial "Expert" Advice Here's an excerpt, but I encourage you to click through and read the whole thing.
We glimpse that sense of having done a good job when HEM readers applaud the articles we publish. It’s rewarding to present the how’s and why to’s of homeschooling in a clear and understandable way. But there’s a flip side, the danger of setting oneself up as an authority, which is perhaps more a concern to book authors than to magazine publishers.
David Albert, author of And the Skylark Sings with Me, cautions in his new book: “Don’t take anything I write for granted. Test it against the light of your own experience, experimentally. We are all big kids here, and we’ve earned the right by shouldering the responsibility.”
You know what they say: "With great freedom, comes great responsibility" but don't worry, you'll do great!
