The Daily Planet - Homeschooling is NOT all about Textbooks

Published on May 19, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Homeschooling is NOT all about Textbooks

This Article was published in Homeschooling Articles

    Since I was a baby, my mom had always been in church ministries. Women’s, children’s, the works. Up into my early teen years she was the woman who could always be asked to head up this ministry or that. She was gone a lot and we were either dragged everywhere with her, left home with dad or take to one of her friends. She was not home a lot.
    In 2002, we left the church we had been attending for several years due to some unbiblical things that were being done or said. After we left that church my mom found many, many great resources, which we still use today, that told her of what a mom/wife/woman was supposed to be or do. And through many years she has become the wonderful woman of God we all know and love. She has truly come a long way from that other mom who was always on the go. She has embraced her new role of being a homekeeper and has succeeded in letting it be who she is. She is one who when she finds out something that is wrong or right, she acts on it, and does what she is supposed to.
    During the time that she was always gone, I fell into the world. I thought I was the best Christian. I would attend service, and Sunday school, memorize my verse and recite it to the whole class, know all the worship songs, raise my hands. I thought I was the best Christian. But I had lost my way in all my piousness. I was a fake. My parents lost my heart. I have done things in the past that I am ashamed of because my parents did not have my heart and I did not let them take it.
    You would think with the way my parents are that I would have been who I was supposed to. But my heart wasn’t in the right place and I was lost.
    It is a hard and long journey that I am still trekking, but I know that if I had been sent to public school, I might not be alive today. I am not even close to ending this trek back to where my parents have my complete heart. It is a hard thing to completely give it to them because I want to be in control and shouldn’t be. But I am trying my best to give it to them.

    One thing that being homeschooled has taught me is that homeschooling is not all about the textbooks, or the math or science or history or grammar you learn. Its not all about school. It is about keeping your children’s hearts. Making sure that you don’t lose them to the world and satan. It is about equipping your children to raise up to the expectations that God has set for them. It is your job as a mother to keep your children’s hearts at the center of your attention and training them in all things that are holy and Godly.
    Just a couple years ago, I despised my mother because I was not in the grade I was supposed to be and because it made me look dumb to all my “friends”. I was behind in school and it made me look stupid in front of my “friends”. I thought that school was sitting in a desk or at a table and doing workbooks for hours. But that is not what homeschool is like, maybe public school. But I was homeschooled, not public schooled. I have learned that you can gain more knowledge in homeschool, not by doing workbooks, but by living everyday life.
    School is something everyone does. Not everyone takes their children’s hearts and molds them to be the men and women of God that they are supposed to be.
    Don’t just keep your children home to teach them “school” because school will not be important when we are in heaven with God. What will be important is that they love God and did all they could to be Godly men and women on this earth.
    Keep your children’s heart and you will have an even greater reward than your child getting a diploma. You will know that they love the LORD and follow his ways and you will be with them forever!!
    Not only will you have their hearts, but you will be able to keep them away from satan and his evil things that happen in the world.
    As a great homeschool parent reminds us, “KEEP THEM HOME WHERE THEY BELONG!”
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May 19, 2007 at 8:17 PM...Untitled Comment

Commented by BlogBoy

I'll re your comment later tonight, I've got to go to work for a while. I was just heading outside =S

Eric