a couple of days ago, and I thought that would be a great topic to transition into now that we're home from our Cross-Country Road Trip (see archives), and full speed ahead in our Homeschooling mode.
Lisa has 11 children.
We have 13.
Lisa has been homeschooling since Sept. 1991.
We started our journey in Sept. 1990.
Lisa's oldest 5 are 22, 20, 18, 16, 14.
Our oldest 5 are 25, 24, 22, 20, 20.
With all of those similarities, I wasn't surprised at all that our 3 main objectives for why our families originally chose to homeschool (and continue to homeschool) are the same. Here are Lisa's 3 primary reasons for choosing a homeschooling lifestyle for her family:
#1 We want to provide our children with a distinctly Christian education. This means we want to pray with them, read the Bible with them, instruct them in God's ways, incorporate Bible study into their education, and so much more. We want our children to know Church History, the stories of great missionaries and heroes of the Christian faith, and our own life of faith as a family.
2. We want our family to be tightly-knit and our children to be not only siblings, but the closest of friends. We want our children to be family-oriented rather than peer-oriented. ... Now that our five oldest children are 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, I can say with confidence that this part of our vision is being fulfilled and I give great thanks to God.
3. We want to customize our children's education to suit their specific needs, interests, and goals. This is the fun part of homeschooling, when you get to look at your child and ask yourself, "What are her gifts and talents? How much time ( and money) can we devote toward developing this gift?" It is also an opportunity to look at our children's weaknesses and ask ourselves how we can help them overcome those areas. These may be academic, character, or spiritual weaknesses, but as parents, we want to devote ourselves to helping our children grow past them.
I couldn't have said it better. So, I didn't try. Seriously, those are our exact reasons for homeschooling. I have answered the question of why we homeschool, so many times, and I often use the same exact wording that Lisa used.
I'd love to do a variety of posts about homeschooling. Do you have any questions for me? Specific homeschooling topics? Thoughts or ideas about homeschooling? Let me know ...
You might want to pop back to THIS POST , that I wrote a year ago, about "Why Do We Teach Our Children At Home", or look in the archives for more posts about Homeschooling.
You might want to pop back to THIS POST , that I wrote a year ago, about "Why Do We Teach Our Children At Home", or look in the archives for more posts about Homeschooling.
I love it, and couldn't have said it better either. We LOVE IT!!!
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