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Home educating one’s children will obviously have a major effect on the lives of parents. Parents have to make the initial decision to home educate, to take on the huge responsibility for their children’s education, to deal with authorities and to reorganize the family’s lives to incorporate new schedules, as well as reflect on whether it is the right decision. Further, they need to continually analyse and re-analyse what they are doing as a family and adjust as they go along, taking into account not only their children’s development and shifts in interests, but also their own needs and the needs of other family members.
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Barson, L.S. (2015). Home Educating Parents: Martyrs or Pathmakers?. In: Rothermel, P. (eds) International Perspectives on Home Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137446855_2
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