You can do this, especially since it's been brought up and you are now aware of it.

Our tester initially thought homeschooling would not be a good fit for us either. He later changed his mind after he got to know our family better.

At the beginning, I looked too permissive because I was ignoring C-dog's behavior in front of him. I didn't want him to think I was a mean mommy. Now he realizes I deal with the behavior, but only in front of people I feel comfortable with.

I agree. I think it's behavior we aren't aware of that is problematic.

I just don't accept without some sort of evidence that certain combinations of people are a guaranteed bad match for homeschooling. I know permissive parents and hard-nosed parents with all combinations of personalities in their kids who homeschool. I know it can be done by anyone. Sometimes the parents have to adapt a bit to make it work, but it can be done successfully by anyone.

Again, that doesn't mean YOU ought to. Just that I don't personally buy this as a reason for not.

Thanks Debbie. This is interesting to me because both DS and I are ENFP's and neither of us had any trouble with teachers in elementary school. In fact, DS was pretty universally adored by his teachers because of his high social skills, leadership ability, and great enthusiasm (which are part of the ENFP portrait as well). Yes, he is distractable and he doesn't like details, but mostly the teachers just got a kick out of telling me how much the liked having the extra time to chat with him at the end of the day while he was getting his backpack packed up (since packing backpack is a "detail" he has a "hard time attending to").

And I do know he can be disruptive. His GT teacher did mention the DS tends to "go off on tangents" but he also said that although he knew he needed to redirect DS sometimes, that was often hard to do because the tangents DS was taking were so fun and humorous that they seemed more interesting than what Mr. GT had planned so he would end up following DS's lead!

Because DS and I have done so well with our ENFP types, it really surprised me to hear that they may not fit well in an elementary classroom. But I have always known that our teachers have been amazing and we probably just lucked out by getting fun loving teachers who enjoy the extra energy and joy in their classroom!

acs - I think our DS's were separated at birth! LOL!!! DS10 is an ENFP and is also adored by his teachers. He is VERY distractible and doesn't like details either. The only main difference is that he isn't disruptive. He definitely knows when to be quiet!!!

I think we both got lucky!!!