I was introduced to homeschooling in the late 1980s, as a teenager, and I longed to leave the stressful atmosphere of my local high school and study at home. At that time, though, my parents were not on board, so I finished high school and went on to college with the firm belief that should I ever have children, I would homeschool them. I graduated with an education degree, went abroad to teach, and met my future husband. When we started dating, one of my first conversations with him was that I was going to homeschool my children, if he wasn’t on board, then I didn’t see how this relationship could progress.