After going to Sydney's homeschool conference I have been challenged in a few areas, so Im reading voraciously to try to understand these challenges and help me expand on my own knowledge of them a little more.

Here are a few quotes Im writing down that pertain to my mindset at the moment:

"We suggest you imagine each child's graduation from high school (or leaving home). What do you want that child to know? What skills do you want him/her to have learned? What kind of a relationship do you want to have with that child? What kind of relatiohship do you want the child to have with God? What attitudes? What would it take for you to be able to say, "We're done!" What would it take to look back with few regrets about how you spent the years that child was in your care? What would it take for the Lord to say, "Well done, good and faithful parents!"

pg 40, 'I Saw The Angel In The Marble' by the Davis's.

"Education is not as much the mastering of skills and information as it is the development of healthy relationships. We want our children to be 'rightly related' to God; to themselves (personal care of their spirit, soul and body); to others; and to created things (nature, time, money, possessions, knowledge etc, etc.) Academic knowledge, facts and skills assume their proper places as they contribute to healthy relatiohships in each of these areas."

........."God's 'good way' of teaching is relational. We try to disciple our childen so that, as much as possible, they learn to do things as they do them with us 'when we sit at home, when we walk along the road, when we lie down, and when we get up.' "

pg 78, 'I Saw The Angel In The Marble' by the Davis's.