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Jan. 11, 2006
Ok - we'll jump in the ring... Why we homeschool...
Since everybody's sharing WHY they homeschool (and I love hearing all
the stories of when and reasons why!) here is the WHY for us - I'll
relate the story of when and how some other time!!
The REAL reasons we homeschool are:
1 - We can READ
all of OUR favorite books. Favorite ones such as LITTLE HOUSE and
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN and ELSIE and RED BADGE OF COURAGE and HEIDI and THE
ODYSSEY and PILGRIM'S PROGRESS and OLIVER, books by GH Henty and Jane
Austen and Hannah W. Smith, poetry by Longellow and Frost and Byron and
Keats, picture books like THE SNOWY DAY and THE GIVING TREE and THE
OX-CART MAN and NOAH'S ARK, biographies of Eric Liddell, Abraham
Lincoln, Corrie ten Boom, daVinci, Bach, Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Ronald
Reagan and many others.... and ten thousand other books that they come
to me and beg me to read.
2 - We can let our children REFLECT .
Hours spent building with blocks, imagining sticks to be hundreds of
things, asking questions about what and why and how and who.
Comparing books to real life and seeing grandparents and neighbors grow
old, friends and families giving birth to new children, weddings and
funerals and sickness and health and friendship and moving and all the
time THINKING about how choices in life lead us.
3 - We have RULES. Not "if this situation.." "because of ..." "well, I thought maybe..." RULES but this is RIGHT and this is WRONG RULES, based on the only true right and wrong rules (the Bible). Rules given and followed out of love for each other. Love given and taken because there are rules to allow them to learn what true love is.
4 - We learn RESPONSIBILITY.
We take out our own trash, make our own beds, do our own laundry,
exercise regularly, drive ourselves to classes or church, fix our own
lunch, AND make time to help take a meal or do yardwork or stock the
food pantry or visit the nursing home for those who need help.
5 - RELATIONSHIPS
are the most important reason we homeschool. First, of course, is
each of our personal relationship to Christ. Relationships to
each other, parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, family, are all
important. They are the training ground for future
marriages, jobs, friends. They are the thing that makes
life so special. They are the thing that makes Homeschooling the
ONLY choice for us.
[Taken from our family's "Mission
Statement" developed when we began homeschooling over 10 years ago, and
used every year since.]
Are there days it would be easier to
"send them to school"? OH YEAH!! But the best path is
usually NOT the easier one, I've learned the hard way. So we
continue... and ask for God's grace and strength to continue...
and His mercy where we fall short... and His love to be in
all.............
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Jan. 12, 2006 - Well said
Beth