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Which really means, I'm just winging it! It's a good thing I only have one left this year, other wise we could be teaching like the Devil -- lots of fire, hot air and threats, and still accomplishes nothing!
I usually start my school year with plans and great dreams: Breakfast and chores done by 8:30 and my daughter dilligently doing academics, a mid morning break with tea, finish "school", enjoy lunch and then have an afternoon of quality, interactive sciences and social studies. Let's not forget practicing music, foreign languages, and exploring the arts...... yeah, yeah, y'all can stop laughing now.
I don't even know why I make those plans; I never really use any of them and most of them are in total disagreement with my homeschool philosophy. Maybe it's just guilt, or the pressure put on me by society. "They" have ideas of what my 15yo daughter should be learning and well, God has his own ideas what she (and I) need to learn this year. I remember one year searching the scriptures for what I should teach my children. I kept finding thing like "love the Lord, your God." , "Obey his commands" and "meditate on His word day and night"; but Algebra and Chemistry weren't there. Go figure. I'm not saying that some kids shouldn't study these things; I just don't see why all kids have to study these things.
I was listening to a tape the other night at a homeschool mom function and one of the things the speaker said really caught me. "Everything we teach in HighSchool is the wrong thing, and every way we teach it is the wrong way." All I could think was "So why do so many homeschoolers try to do it the exact same way?" I mean what's the difference. I've always felt that somethings were nothing more than a waste of time and effort. Do you realize that people who entered Harvard 150 years ago never had to learn the difference between a mitochondria and a gogli body; or be able to lable an atom and know which molecule it was by the number of electrons and neutrons. They didn't even know these things existed, but they could still go to Harvard. There's so much more information available today than there was 100 years ago; it's like double the work load. I would bet that some HighSchool grads of today are equal with some of the College grads of yesteryear. My daughter has so many things to learn ( most of which will be meaningless to her) and she has her whole life to learn them.
So, even if I don't have a plan for tomorrow beyond "winging it", I can trust that God has a plan for us. Just Rambling and Blogging... Julie
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