#47 Acting as a spokesperson/spokesfamily for homeschooling if your oldest is 6 or younger, or you just started...
For reasons I don't understand, the media loves to show families with preschool-aged kids who plan to homeschool, when they talk about homeschooling. A recent example is the New York Times magazine article "School's In" which features a homeschool co-op where the oldest kids are 6, but the vast majority seem to be preschoolers, and the kids are taught by paid teachers in an environment so school-like the parents refer to it as a school. There's certainly nothing wrong with what they're doing and I wish them the best, but they barely have their toe into homeschooling life.
It's very common to be passionate and excited about homeschooling when you start, and to want to tell the world about it, but passion doesn't necessarily replace experience, especially when dealing with the media.
