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Mar. 1, 2007
Why did we choose to homeschool?
| Homeschooling to me was a very vague concept when I first heard about it, and my first thoughts about it were, “Oh, those poor children!” We decided to homeschool because we felt that that was the best way to ensure that we were fulfilling our God-given prerogative to train our children for Him, to have good character and be all that God intends for them to be. To put them in school would mean that we were handing over the best of their formative years to others who did not share our values and our love for God. In Deuteronomy, the people were charged to teach their children to love the Lord their God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. That was our greatest ambition for our children. That charge requires us to love our God with everything we are – our emotions and thoughts, the education of our minds and how we think, our spiritual choices, and our physical bodies. The second most important commandment is to love others. Homeschooling addresses this by putting our children in an environment where they are with each other most of the time and thus have to learn to get along and love each other unconditionally. They learn how to handle conflict and put others first. These skills are fundamental to any relationship. I began to homeschool as soon as I could, realizing that children learn the most from their parents and family. I had more questions than answers, but the Lord gave me a verse in Jeremiah : “I will show you great and wonderful things which you do not know,” and many other promises. The Masters course in Education which I took opened my eyes to how far education has gone against the true knowledge of God and towards the establishment of humanistic and materialistic thinking. My short time of teaching in the public school arena as part of my Masters program cemented those convictions. I realized that I had no choice but to homeschool my children no matter what. Today my children are far ahead academically than most public and private schooled children and they love learning. |
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