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Considering Home Education and Why it’s a Good Idea
 

Most Mothers/ Fathers do not feel adequate to educate their own children. Either they feel unqualified themselves because they do not have their credentials or don’t think they have enough knowledge to teach a broad spectrum of subjects, or they just feel they lack patience. Some may have concerns about their child’s social life, maybe time is limiting or one parent works outside the home. Whatever the reason may be, I can tell you that it does not surpass the value you will get when you give your child a loving environment to learn in and an academic education they are interested in.

Sending your children out of your home to others to be introduced to their philosophies and the philosophy of strangers on a daily basis can be spiritually risky. I don’t mean spiritually in a religious sense, I mean morally. The morals of society are diluted so much that our human conscience has become dull. If you consider your children to be gifts from God it is only natural to want to protect them in their early years and want the very best for them. Your local school system may be your only choice because of life’s circumstances but for the majority of the people, we truly do have other options.

Consider this; with the recent focus on erasing God out of our schools, it can be a dangerous thing to have the children in an environment where God does not reside or is not welcome. It is as if you send your child out in the open sea on a boat with no life jackets aboard, before he has had the chance to learn to swim and strengthen his lungs, and be well versed on the perils of the open sea. You just wouldn’t do it. Crime and negligence are at their highest in schools today and educational scores and achievements are at their lowest. There has got to be a better way to achieve academic results than what we have in America today.

You and I can do better, it wouldn’t be that difficult. My family loves this country and we love the constitution and the freedom it stands for, however, there is a social climate of American society that do not believe in God and rejects faith and almost all Godly principles, they often are the profess-ors of government run education.

Teaching your children is a natural God given instinct; if we can teach them to walk, talk, say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, then we can teach them how to read and write and do math.

What advise would I offer a new homeschooling family?
“Relax”! That’s the most commonly heard advice that experienced homeschoolers emphasize above all else. There’s no hurry to make a fixed plan, and certainly no hurry to spend a lot of money on curriculum. You’ll find that acquiring a rich education is not as complicated as some may originally assume. While it may be complicated to provide the kind of learning experiences 30 different individuals might need in a classroom setting, homeschooling provides the time and freedom for learning in a much more relaxed and natural way. Support and resources are plentiful. You’ll find that homeschooling provides an opportunity to be with your family in a nurturing and relaxing lifestyle; and you can teach to the interest of the child not to the test.

©2007 Terrie Runolfson
 

"When another speaks, be attentive yourself; and disturb not the audience. If any hesitate in his words, help him not nor prompt him without desired; interrupt him not, nor answer him till his speech has ended."

– George Washington

George Washington Rules of Civility

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“In this age of selfishness and greed, of birth control and barrenness, of easy divorce, broken homes, and juvenile delinquency, in this age of cheap amusements, idleness and lack of discipline, it is well to search for basic values, to attention to the fact that the home is the nation’s most fundamental institution and that mothers are the first professors in that character-building school”. -Hugh B. Brown

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