Homeschool

This is our fifth year of homeschool. I was not fully behind me homeschooling our children for numerous reasons but when our oldest was ready to go to kindergarten we were living in West Virginia and I was doing the children's ministry at our church, so I was able to have hands on time with public schooled children which severely unimpressed me. I was unimpressed with their inability to follow simple directions and the lack of motor gross skills. I was pregnant with baby no. 4 so I was wanting the break of sending my child to school but the negative aspects of public school outweighed my selfish desires. I cannot say that I'm the best, most organized, no mistakes, perfected homeschooling mom. I have my days of great struggle with wanting to give up. Homeschooling with 5 children is the hardest thing I have ever done because it takes so much self-sacrifice.

I've been reading about the natural method of teaching children and how to integrate that into schooling. Modern schools teach the way they do because they have so many children to one teacher. But what did people do long ago? They studied and copied literature and formulated their own thoughts, questions and ideas. No one was requiring children to all think the same way. I don't want my children to be the same, God has given each of them a unique personality and I want to nurture that, not make them all the same. Homeschooling allows me to see who they are without a crazy amount of outside influence, I know they will have to deal with that but I want to give them a good start at finding their purpose for life.

With all that said, I still have days I ask myself, "what am I doing?? I can't do this." Like today.  And this is what I looked like today....

I know homeschooling will be worth it! Plus I'm learning so much along with the kids!