Dec. 12, 2007
"Just" a Homemaker?

Titus 2:3-5 (NIV) - "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.  Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home,* to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the world of God."    * KJV=keepers at home

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Dec. 12, 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>

Posted by nikkisimcox

Loud applause !!!!!!!!!! I agree !

Edited by nikkisimcox on Dec. 12, 2007 at 7:22 AM

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Dec. 12, 2007 - Congratulations on receiving the Homeschool Blogging Award nomination

Posted by heartofwisdom

Congratulations on receiving the Homeschool Blogging Award nomination.
You're part of a great bunch.

We are having a Homeschool Book Giveaway at
http://Heartofwisdom.com/blog A new book will be given away each week
(Bloggers receive three entries by posting a link). Thanks.
Robin @ HeartofWisdom
http://heartofwisdom.com/blog

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Dec. 12, 2007 - educating young women

Posted by Anonymous

What BETTER way to prepare young women for teaching their own children than to ABSOLUTELY educate them in college!

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Dec. 12, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by sagerats

So, Anonymous, are you saying that the only way one person can teach another is if they have a college education? Would that then mean I would only be trained to teach in the areas that I was formally educated in? So all I'm good for is teaching my daughters how to fix a jet engine? Since there aren't any jet engines laying around my house I guess I'm seriously misapplying my talents.

There's more to life then college and just because a person has a college degree it doesn't mean they actually know anything and if they do they may not know how to apply it. Diploma's don't impress me, you could have graduated at the bottom of your class for all I know. Show me what you can do and that you care and then I'll be willing to learn from you no matter what piece of paper you got stuck up on your wall.

The same goes for children, a piece of paper means nothing to them. Show them that you care, take them by the hand and guide them, they will be willing to learn from whoever is there for them. It doesn't take a college education to teach.

Abiding in the Vine!

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Dec. 12, 2007 - Dear Anonymous

Posted by Buckeyeblog

Thanks so much for reading today's post.

I'm not quite sure if this is a rhetorical question or not, because I thought I had made my opinion ~ and EXPERIENCE ~ clear. It IS my opinion and experience that there is ABSOLUTELY NO BETTER PLACE to educate young women about raising their own children and being keepers of their homes than AT home. I'm completely stumped as to why ~ or even HOW ~ you believe that higher education would make any woman a better wife and mother...what could they possibly learn there that they wouldn't learn BETTER at home with their own mother as their example and teacher?

I'm sorry if this offends you, but I lovingly encourage you and hope that you rethink YOUR stand on this. If anything, colleges can only teach theory and desperately fail in the hands-on, emotional, practical aspects of REAL life. Those things can't be "taught," they truly must be "caught."

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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Dec. 13, 2007 - to answer...

Posted by Anonymous

Hello All. This is "Anonymous" also known as Grier. I am actually a secondary English teacher at a private school in Atlanta. Don't bother worrying yourselves with how I came to this forum. In reading several people's blogs, I have been educated in the world of "homeschooling." Mostly, I am appalled at the poor grammar and antiquated views, and I see such a stalwart defense of a system (homeschooling) which, in witnessing the manifestations in my own extended family, baffles me. However, you all have a right to a forum which praises, bolsters, and reinforces your views. And maybe I am just a contrarian, but I love to read your postings and get riled up. So- how does a mother educate her son (clearly the more valued child [that statement will surely cause a riot!]) without knowing basic scientific, mathematical, and language arts skills herself? I understand your stance on daughters because, as you see it, they are simply to grow up, be subservient cleaners, diaper-changers, and general, blessed "keepers of the home." So, yes, according to your projected views of womanhood, why even bother educating our daughters to read? Oh yes, that's right, so they can teach their sons to read. I have worked in the public schools as well as private. Yes, there are flaws in "the system." But I see most of our kids as being more safe in the hands of most teachers and schools than in the hands of some very frightening parents. Our whole country is screwed up. Sending each kid home to be homeschooled would spell eminent disaster for most of our children. Anyway- you all have a right to speak your mind. I am just here to show another view. Merry Christmas!

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Dear Grier...

Posted by Buckeyeblog

I am astonished, amazed and, frankly, a little frightened at your opinion, your veiw of homeschooling. Antiquated ideas? "CLEARLY" favoring boys?! OH, MY! HOW did you EVER come to THAT conclusion?! I have been homeschooling for 15 years, and have known homeschoolers since 1982, and I know of NO ONE (although there may be some in some cult somewhere) who "favors" sons over daughters. How could you possibly have drawn that conlusion from what I said? My post was entirely to honor stay-at-home moms and daughters. Which seems to be obvious to everyone but you. You must remove that veil of liberalism and false feminism and look at the truth. You specifically mentioned how screwed up our world is....huh...I wonder why? COULD is POSSIBLY be that so many moms are NOT in the home rocking the cradle but leaving their infants and toddlers to fend for themselves in bacteria filled, survival of the fittest, politically correct daycare centers? Those poor, poor little children. I know working moms who drop their little ones off shortly after 6a.m. and many times don't pick them up until after 7p.m. And then, in the evening they actually get MAD at their kids for being so clingy while they are home or that they cry so hard when they are dropped off at the daycare in the morning! What a crying shame. So many ~ if not all ~ of these kids will become peer-dependent at a very early age...parents know nothing...teacher is the ultimate authority...of course, that "teacher" was probably educated in a secular, liberal institution and passes on the trash that THEY were taught.

Jesus specifically warned us that "a student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained WILL BE LIKE HIS TEACHER" (Luke 6:40) and again He said, "LEAVE THEM; THEY ARE BLIND GUIDES. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit" (Matt. 15:14). We would rather our children be properly educated, not only with TOP QUALITY academics (you obviously have never seen a homeschool family's curriculum and learning resources ~ many of our home libraries rival small town libraries!), but ALSO we prefer that OUR children grow up to be properly socialized, that they will grow up to be the business and political leaders of tomorrow...and many of those will homeschooled girls/women. Are you aware that most homeschooled parents are more highly educated (whether they actually finished college or not...mothers, too!) than most public school parents? I didn't think so. Are you aware that homeschooled students CONSISTANTLY score 30 percentile points HIGHER on SATs than public schooled children? I didnt' think so. Are you aware homeschool families are 70% more politically active than most public school families? I didn't think so. Are you aware that homeschool families are far more active in service organizations, out-reach organizations and civic organizations than public school students and families? I didn't think so. Did you know that about 38% of homeschool parents are/were public school teachers? I didn't think so. Are you aware that colleges, specifically Ivy League colleges, are actively recruiting homeschoolers? I didn't think so.

One thing you MUST understand before you continue to judge us so harshly...and falsely...is that WE HAVE attended public schools!! YOU have never attended a homeschool, that I can tell. You are just falsely judging from afar. WE know from which we speak...I'm afraid yours is solely based on prejudice (possibly influenced by the NEA) and probably fear that "mere parents" are doing a far, far better job educating and socializing their own children...not the state. So, remember, we HAVE walked those dangerous public school halls, we HAVE had teachers who didn't even know the subjects they were supposed to be teaching us, we HAVE had bullies threaten ~ sometimes carry out ~ a beating, we HAVE suffered through thugs stealing our money, we HAVE only gone to the bathrooms when it just couldn't be helped anymore for fear of getting beaten up by the the school hoods; we HAVE suffered through snotty, uncaring teachers who didn't give a care if you learned what they were teaching or not because they had to keep the schedule...yes...we HAVE "been there, done that, and got the stinkin' t-shirt"...to quote myself. I'm afraid that YOU haven't. Your disdain and false assumptions for the homeschool lifestyle has caused you to take simple statements, observations and ACTUAL experiences and stretch them beyond belief. I am still stunned at the incredible presumptions you made from my post.

But one thing I would like to leave you with. Please consider that it is no accident that God has brought you this way...to read these blogs...to get just a taste of the homeschool lifestyle. He may be trying to tell YOU something. Something that will be better for your family and your relationships. He loves you and has a plan for you; part of that plan may be a closer, more loving relationship between you and your children (if you have any yet), a closer relationship with your husband (if y ou have one yet) and, even better, a far closer walk with the Lord. He may be using homeschooling to do that for you. He may be trying to soften your hardened heart...it hurts to resist. I'll be praying for you.

By the way, if you would like to verify my statistics you may go to www.nheri.com.

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Hello again Grier,

Posted by sagerats

I'm glad you shared your views, it does spice things up!

I personally don't know of a single family that favors their sons over their daughters. If by favoring you mean that they send their sons off to college and not their daughters, then you really haven't read as many homeschool blogs as you lead us to believe. I know many homeschooled young ladies who are in college or have finished college. They are nurses, teachers, in politics in various capacities, business, and the list could go on because they are just as diverse as anyone else.

Where do you get the idea that we have no basic knowledge in science, math or language skills? Do you think we all came out from caves and jungles? We did go to public schools and many homeschool parents do have a college degree. I recently blogged about a tragic news article, I imagine it was written by a college graduate, that made a very humorous mistake in the opening sentence. Many of us have had highly skilled jobs before we decided to raise our own children. From looking at your comment your language skills aren't any better then many of the rest of us. You used the word eminent instead of imminent, unless of course you think our so called upcoming disaster will be superior to some other disaster. Your paragraph skills are seriously lacking, or is it just because you are more relaxed in this type of setting, just like all the rest of us? Mistakes happen.

I have a daughter that didn't learn to read until she was in third grade. I'm sure to you that is a horrible story and that it must have been due to my poor teaching. However when she began to read, in the third grade, she started with The Hobbit. She loves reading and it's because I didn't push her and insist that she know how to read sooner. She wasn't labeled slow and made fun of by anyone in our family. I have a wonderful niece who is older then my daughter, is in public school, and still doesn't know how to read. She hates reading because of what the system did to her. The system does not foster a love of learning. It force feeds facts and expects them to be spit back out at test time.

The plain fact is teachers don't know any more then the basics themselves. Many are teaching a subject they weren't trained in, (math teachers teaching history or vice versa) and as homeschool parents we have seen the teacher's guides. They point out step-by-step what to say and when to say it and what the students response should be.

There are children who live with parents that are very scary, but think about where those parents came from. The public school system that failed them even though it promised their parents that they would "take care" of them. It led them to believe that they only have to think about themselves, if it feels right it must be right, and don't depend on family, depend on the government instead. They are now perfectly set up to blindly follow.

Homeschoolers learn to question and the purpose of this blog is to make others think and question. You don't have to agree with us but we do ask that you carefully take a look at what we are saying and why we are saying it. Our education and experiences have taught us something.

Abiding in the Vine!

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

"Also, during this chat the opportunity came up to explain to them that I (we) have raised our daughters to be keepers of their homes. As we have one daughter who has already graduated from our homeschool and is working for a time while she considers if she wants to go to college or not, I explained that if I had boys I might look at their going to college a little differently, but with our girls I'm not "pushing" it, as they will want to eventually be stay-at-home moms and homeschool their own children."

This asinine statement was what I was referring to. And below is an interesting essay on the pros and cons of the homeschooling system.

http://www.tcnj.edu/~samuel3/incd%20homeschooling.htm

-Grier

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Oh Grier,

Posted by sagerats

You do make this fun! I went to the link you suggested and was not surprised with what I read. Did you read the second paragraph of it or only the first? Is this what you base all of your assumptions of homeschooling on? Really, you do need to read more.

The first paragraph states all the (unfounded) reasons why people are against homeschooling. So let's take those reasons one at a time and truly see if they are problems or not, because most people who are against homeschooling have no idea what homeschooling is really all about and anyone who believes everything Rob Reich has to say has only proven they can't think for themselves.

No opportunity to work with peers acadmically - My children work with each other, have worked with other homeschool students and public school students in choir/history performers, 4-H, dance, speech club, and so on. I also don't believe that children should always be with their peers, that's like the blind leading the blind and in no way reflects the real world.

No opportunity to work with varying cultures and social statuses - The above example would prove otherwise as well as our interaction with people at church, in town, and in our family. We spend quite a bit of time with our various family members, trust me, they all live very different lives, socially, monetarily, and politically. Public schools really don't have that much of a varying degree of social classes in their schools either. Children who live in the ghetto go to schools in the ghetto while children who live in upper class areas go to schools in those areas.

The above "cons" are imperiative to knowing how to live life in the real world - What on earth did people do before public education?

Parents can design their own curriculum so students are only exposed to one view point. - Again the above examples would prove this wrong but unless you live on a deserted island with no radio, t.v. or communication of any kind it would be impossible to not be exposed to other view points. Traveling in the car alone and being bombarded by the billboards is only the beginning of it. My children spend time alone with both sets of grandparents who don't agree with us in nearly everything. Just as I was exposed to the public schools one and only viewpoint on how the earth came to be and I questioned it, so do my children question me with the view points that I offer them. That's how you are educated. Otherwise you are a merely a puppet.

Children don't form their own unique personality and views- There are six people in this house and we are all individuals in our tastes. We each have our own personalities. My children don't all think like me or like my husband. My oldest daughter likes bold, bright colors for her clothes. I do not. She chooses much classier outfits then I do. That is only one example of our differing personalities, I'm not going to take the time to list them all.

Lack of work ethic - Actually, colleges and universities are purposely seeking out homeschooled students because they have a better work ethic then those in public school. We don't spend the day laying around doing nothing, we have goals and plans for each day and we strive to accomplish them.

The life skill of learning how to work and get along with others is not taught at home - If you can't get along with the people in your family but you can get along with only those outside your family and in the workplace then you really don't know how to get along. That is only a put on.

Parents aren't certified teachers - A certification does not mean you actually know what you are doing. It only proves you could follow the rules. Teachers aren't really trained to teach, they are trained to manage a large group and keep them busy on a given subject. My previous comments in this thread point out the failings in this theory.

Homeschooling is becoming commercialized - That is true, it is a booming business but in the context of the article it says this is bad because curriculum can be tailored to fit the student. I don't know how that would be bad. My son likes cars and he has learned a lot about history, science, and social issues because of his interest. There is nothing wrong with building on one's strengths, businesses do that all the time. As parents we do not neglect our children's weaknesses we find ways to strengthen them by using their interests and strengths.

Those who homeschool are only those who can afford it. - Do you know what we have sacrificied in order to afford it? When I first started homeschooling our family wasn't anywhere near middle class. There are single parents who homeschool their children and work an outside job. The question is what do you really want for your children and yourself? Yes there are those who are so poor that they have no option but that does not mean they choose that option with joy! They hate that they are left with no choice and see no one helping them to make a different choice. That is a very real problem and one that some homeschool organizations are trying to change.

I'll let Kim answer your concern over her comment. I can say that I have no problems with what she has said. I'm not pushing my sons go to college though either, that will be up to them. I have raised all of my children to consider their famlies first and that would mean that my daughters stay home to take care of their own children instead of allowing some stranger to do it and my sons getting a job that will support their families.

Now here is an article for you to read - http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/2002/02/26/john-gatto-teacher-of-the-year-acceptance-speech/

John Taylor Gatto says it so much better then I can.

Abiding in the Vine!

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Dear Grier,

Posted by Buckeyeblog

I'm still at a loss as to how that simple statement made you think that we prefer boys be educated moreso than girls. We are doing what any loving, concerned parent would do and are advising and guiding our girls toward the more advantageous path. If you actually pay attention to that quote you will see that it in no way implies that they can't or won't go on to college. We merely don't "push" it for our girls. If I MUST explain it to you, it's because men are required to be the major bread-winner of the family. They are required by God to serve their families in this way...Eph. 5 requires them to love their family to such an extent that they give their very lives for their families, if need be.

Whether our girls go on to college and to a career before they raise their families is their decision; I can't understand why an educated person like yourself can't comprehend that. Didn't your parents guide you or try to advise you in choosing your career path? We're doing the same. The only difference is that our girls understand that the most important occupation that will ever have is not only being a Godly wife, but raising, nurturing, and educating their children as any Godly mother desires to do. Some may even work from home while rasing their children, as many of us do. However, we consider being a Godly wife and mother ~ which encompasses homeschooling ~ to be our God-given career. We love it and we are excited about it! We are so thankful for the Godly men we are married to who sincerely see the vision of family that God has ordained. We are blessed beyond measure!

I'm sorry that it seems you don't have that. But, as I said before, maybe that's why you keep showing up here...why you seem to be drawn to our lifestyle. Maybe THIS is what you really want and what you have learned from our liberal/pc culture is conflicting with what you know to be truth. As Tia said, most of us have come from careers. I grew up in the fashion industry...I started very early...I modeled from the time I was 9 until I got married and started my family right away at 25. I also double-dipped as a make-up artist from the ages of 19 - 34; I've even been a secretary, a food consultant, among other things, and now I even write for a magazine. Something else...I'm attending a Bible college part-time with my oldest daughter, now (a homeschool graduate of '06). She's taking a few classes to aquaint herself to a formal structure AND to see if she really wants to go to college...again, we're not pushing it. But I CHOSE to follow God's plan and homeschool my girls and to not only educate them academically but as women of God; we are BLESSED to have the choice to minister to their own families whether they choose higher education of not. We're not Amish...we don't have to stop educating our children by 8th grade. Our girls are very well-rounded; our assessors are constantly amazed at all that we accomplish during our school year, and beyond.

Something else I'm sorry about...I'm sorry that you felt that you couldn't express yourself in any other way but to curse. That's something else that we educate our families about...how to express deep, even angry, feelings w/o resorting to cursing.

I do believe that you are drawn here for a purpose. Why else would your keep coming back? Please know that I am praying for you.

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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Dec. 13, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

I'm sorry, but when did I curse?

-Grier

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Dec. 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Sisterchicksteph

*sigh* I do so love it when people that have no experience homeschooling make crazy assumptions based (mostly) on what they hear/read in the liberal media. ;-)

I have 2 sons and a daughter. Trust me- my daughter is not looked on as being less important than her brothers. LOL, the boys treat her as the princess that she is. If she decides to go to college, I will be just as thrilled as I will be about her brothers going to college. What I don't want is for her to ever feel as though *just* taking care of children is less important than going out and working. When she has children, I pray she will stay home and care for them. Why is being a teacher in a school (taking care of kids that are not your own) supposed to be *honorable* and yet being home and teaching your own children is bad? Does that really make sense to you? I'm doing the same thing as any public school teacher, yet I'm not asking for union wages to do it, LOL.

For the record, I went to school for my teaching degree. I did my student teaching in various private schools and a public school. It is what I saw there that helped push me to homeschool. When I began homeschooling my oldest, I had to try to FORGET all that I had learned in college because homeschooling does not look at all like schooling the masses. I don't have to *teach to the average*. I have a very advanced 8 year old and he needs to be challenged in a way that no public school could challenge him (and no, it isn't just *mommy pride* that causes me to say this- most anyone that has spent any time with him could tell you the same thing). Why would I have him waste his time in a government school when he can get so much more at home? A family member (who is a public school teacher) asked him once if he would like to try school for once. His response? "Why would I do that when I can get more done in two hours than those kids get done in seven?" I agree with him completely. :-)

I know, many of us (including myself) aren't always *grammatically correct* when writing. I have an 8 yr old, a 5 yr old and a 6 month old. I can barely find time to shower, LOL, so when I get online I only have a few minutes and could care less how well typed my *casual conversation* is. Luckily my online conversation doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things, so I can get over it. It does seem that one of the first things someone tries to do when debating homeschooling is point out that we don't always use the best sentence/paragraph structure and spelling when we write online. Do *college educated teachers* really never make a mistake when writing? I've seen plenty of horrible grammar from teachers. Have you ever looked in a textbook and seen errors? My oldest writes the publisher whenever he finds an error- it's kind of a hobby of his- and most of the time, he's correct in what he finds. I guess my poor online writing has not hindered my ability to teach him decent writing skills, LOL.

I have always taught my children that going around trying to make others feel stupid reveals nothing about that person but everything about yourself. I'd rather they learn to be kind, loving, God-fearing, decent human beings than have all of the intelligence in the world. That's what I want for all of them, male or female.

I'd love to hang around a bit longer, but my unsocialized children have to get to the church because they are singing tonight with their friends. TTFN! :-)

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Dec. 14, 2007 - ?

Posted by Anonymous

This is Lee - Grier's cousin. We have been checking out several of your blogs on this site for about a year now. I will have to say, as a Christian (BTW, Grier is, too:), a "stay at home mom," and an interpreter for the Deaf, that we can get pretty "riled up" at some (not all) of your opinions and view points, as they seem rather negative and judgemental about how some of us decide to educate our children. It is very interesting, because this seems to be exactly the type of judgment and negativity towards homeschooling that you all have to defend yourselves against. Honestly, although I choose not to homeschool, I can undertand you as fellow mothers and Christians in your reasons for doing so. However, I think it would serve you all, Us All, much better to choose not to judge and to toss around all inclusive, negative ideals and comments about public schools, public school moms and public school students, just as you desire for others not to judge and toss around all inclusive, negative ideals and comments about homeschooling, homeschool moms and homeschool students. Shouldn't we ALL stop casting stones? Isn't that what He would want us to do?

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Dec. 15, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Sisterchicksteph

Lee, if I went onto a message board for NEA members, I would not be one bit surprised to find anti-homeschooling comments. If you come to a board designed for homeschooling moms, don't be shocked if we don't have the best things to say about public schools. Some of us have had very bad experiences with the schools, some have worked in the schools and seen some pretty horrible things and some of us hav pulled our kids out after years of teachers/schools failing our kids. This is our spot to vent those frustrations and share what we have learned in hopes of helping another mom with her decision to homeschool. If you saw a building on fire and saw someone about to walk into the building (because they couldn't see the flames) wouldn't you warn them? I can't sit around and pretend that the public schools are okay when I don't believe that. My opinions are not politically correct and I don't want them to be. Here's the thing- they are MY opinions. I do not try to force others to believe as I do, but I will share my experiences freely and you can take what you want from them. These blogs are a great place to see other experiences and learn from them- even if you don't always agree with the opinion that is expressed by the writer.

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Dec. 15, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Vicki

I can’t comment on favoritism towards boys, as I have 2 girls, but I can comment on a
few other areas of this post and the following comments.

I have not gone to college. I had the opportunity, and even had a partial scholarship
(Incidentally, I was homeschooled from the 3rd grade all the way through high school),
but I did not see anything that I wanted to spend any more time in school to learn. I
did not see the point of spending years attending a college, when I had no focus for
what I wanted to learn. My heart’s desire was to be a Mother.

I have worked many jobs over the short years of my life. For anyone wondering, I am
28. At one time I even thought that I would have preferred working compared to being a
stay at home Mom. I had the illusion that my job is what made me “somebody”. As the
years have passed, and as my children have grown (my oldest is 8), I now know in my
heart that the greatest “somebody” that I can be is a loving, caring, nurturing Mom.

I am a single mother. I homeschool my girls and have for the last year. A better
decision I don’t think I will ever make! In the time that we’ve been homeschooling,
the girls have improved in their academics 100%, and the greatest part about that
is that they ASK me if they can do schoolwork!! They are excited to do their work!!
When they went to public school, it was a fight everyday to get them out the door!
Plus, we don’t just focus on academics, we also do cooking, art/crafts, Bible class,
housekeeping, and whatever else we decide to throw in.... What school that you know of teaches an 8 year old how to cook? Or how to keep the house clean, or how to do
laundry? Our school system doesn’t even have an art program, and some of the greatest
memories I have from this past year is when the girls and I have been seated around
the table up to our elbows in tissue paper and glue! *LOL* When they were in public
school, we didn’t have time for those special moments. They would get up, go to school, come home, eat dinner, take a bath, and then it was bedtime. Now we can cook something or do a craft project whenever we want.

If you think that I have the perfect homeschooling situation or that my life is a bed
of roses, you don’t know the half of it. Remember that I am a single parent as you
read the following. I have a 40 hour a week job outside the home, working from 10p to
6a, and a job (thankfully at home) that I spend probably about 20 hours a week doing.
The girls sleep at night, so when I get home in the morning, it’s time for schooling. Depending on how many errands we have to do around town that day, and what needs
done around the house, all factors into how much sleep I get before it’s time to go
back to work. Would I send them to public school for the me to be able to sleep more?
NO! My children’s education is more important to me than a few hours of sleep!

Would I change anything about my life?? I would be a stay at home Mom! Every day the
girls and I pray that I will be able to stay at home with them, because home is where
we belong! Teaching my girls how to be good wives, mothers, and intelligent human
beings who love God with all their heart is the most important thing I could ever do
with my life, and homeschooling them is a part of that!

Blessings,
Vicki
www.prairierosesamongthorns.com/vblog

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