Okay, part 2, why do I take them with me? The answer is simple…

Mark works until 7:00 p.m. five days a week and I have no one I can leave the children with during the day so that means if I want to do anything they have to come with me. So you might be wondering why I don’t run my errands after Mark gets home at night. Well, the answer to that is simple also…I like to spend my evenings with him and I don’t like to run errands at night. (Plus, he doesn’t like me out at night by myself.) He is gone all day. It doesn’t make sense to me to disappear the minute he gets home, plus, he has spent all day working hard. He deserves to rest a little. I don’t pass the kids off to him the minute he walks in the door. Also, it seems a waste of time to me to have all day to do things and then wait until evening or the weekend to run my errands just so I won’t have to worry about having the children in tow. Why not accomplish two things at once – training them and my errands. Does this mean I wouldn’t prefer to run my errands with only one or two or none…sure, but I have to decide what is best for now and right now taking them all with me and choosing to spend my nights (and weekends) at home with my husband (and as a family) outweighs my desire for what would be easier.

Plus, just think of the lessons in self-control, patience and putting others first that they are learning while they are with me. Not to mention the socialization aspect. Grin. What about me? Do I get anything good out of taking them with me…well I get to get out of the house…and I continually learn the folly of a prideful heart, because without fail my pride (in my children and myself) gets trampled...not to mention the lessons in self-control, patience and putting others first that I also learn…especially after repeated trips to the bathroom.

So all that to introduce this article entitled “Homeschoolers threaten our cultural comfort”.  The article made me chuckle. Check it out. (Hat tip to Yoshika Lowe and the Smoothing the Way email I received this morning.)