I'm expecting my first child, and my husband and I are really excited about homeschooling. He was homeschooled himself through 7th grade, and then he went into a public high school because his mother (who was currently doing homeschooling duty) simply couldn't keep up with him anymore (especially in math and science). We're both big fans of the idea, though, and I can't wait to get started.
If your kids don't like sad and depressing endings, I hope they don't read too many "young adult" novels. I've never seen a genre made up almost entirely of overly-dramatic, completely depressing books. You'd think there was not a teenager in the country who has a normal life and a functional family if you read a bunch of those. I actually have a friend who's a young adult librarian and she's transferring to children's because she's already on anti-depressants and she can't take the books she's supposed to read for her job.
