Homeschooling. Not everyone can or wants to, but this is why we make this choice year after year, why we live on only one salary and make sacrifices. It’s why the majority of our furniture is either hand-me-downs or gifts & why we don’t go out to eat often. But it’s also why our children are each other’s best friends, why “I love you” and hugs are as common as meal times, and why there is a drama-free peace in our home (most of the time). We want our children to have all knowledge spread before them like a feast, with a Christian worldview presented in every way possible. We want to walk alongside them daily, helping grow them physically, mentally, spiritually, as we pray for God to work in their hearts and make them more and more like Him.
Please don’t read into this any judgement on my part from those that do not homeschool. I have many friends and family that don’t, and their children are wonderful. This is just why we do.
“The task of every Christian parent bringing children up to maturity in such a world is to do it in a way that equips. False protection, precisely because it does not equip, leaves a child defenseless when the inevitable day comes when that artificial shelter is removed. True protection equips. We do not want to build a fortress for our students to hide in; we want to give them a shield to carry- along with a sword.” Douglas Wilson
“She had but one keen desire: to go to some quiet place..putting her heart and mind and soul on fitting the children for life. If she could keep strength enough to guide and guard, train and develop them into happy, useful, agreeable human beings, -masters of their own powers; wise and discreet enough, when years of discretion were reached, to choose right paths, -that, she conceived, was her chief task in life, and no easy one.” Mother Carey’s Chickens
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