Committing to Homeschooling is a full time job for moms and dads. It is a sacrifice of time well spent around the kitchen table. To take the job is to mean sincere business and success.
The latest numbers from 2007 show 1.5 million kids in the United States are home-schooled, an increase of half-a-million kids in just 4 years according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Yes, you can home school. God has trusted you to train up your children. Proverbs 22:6 says “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” You have been ordained to be your child’s teacher by the highest authority. It does not say to send your children away from you to learn. This should encourage you. You know your children best, so you are capable of providing the type of instruction your children need for the benefit of their life’s purpose. God doesn’t make mistakes, it is His provided way for us to train our children and He will honor that. If you are a mom and you are home schooling you are in your rightful position. Never doubt yourself!
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It’s hard to find enough time in the day to homeschool, clean home, cook and do outside activities without going out of your mind.
A little bit of planning and scheduling ahead of time can save you a lot of precious time and money
I have found very helpful planners for homeschooling and weekly menus in the donnayoung.org website.
The flylady.net has a great page on how to use a calendar.
Knowing the goals for each day and delegating whatever possible will help you maximize your day. You’ll be able to homeschool, keep the home clean and teach the children valuable lessons on planning.
The flexibility that homeschooling offers each family, is that it creates an opportunity to change your family’s lifestyle for the best . It feels great to be noticed and praised for a job well done. It’s comforting to know there is someone there to help you when assignments get difficult. All those little things that build up a child’s confidence on learning tend to get lost in crowded classrooms and as a result children loose their spark to learn.
When people learn that Kathleen Ford of Erie home-schools her 6-year-old son, the question that follows, she said, is usually “What church do you go to?” And while religion is one of the top motivations for those who educate their children, the reasons are as diverse as the households that home-school.
A 2003 federal survey showed a variety of reasons why people choose to home-school, including concerns about safety, drugs and peer pressure in other schools; dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools; religious or moral training; a child’s physical or mental health issue or other special needs; or a child’s request to be home-schooled.
Four area parents share their stories about how and why they home-school.
This is a terrific example of how homeschool moms encourage each other.
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Staying physically fit has always been important to Stephanie Rhodes, and she’s committed to encouraging others to make fitness a priority in their own lives.
Rhodes and her four children moved to Silverhill a little over a year ago. Her husband, Don, moved down a year earlier for a job with Daphne High School, but Rhodes had to stay with their home in Birmingham until it sold. Recently, her husband made a job change, now serving as a training officer with the 161st Army unit in Mobile.
A couple of months ago, the homeschool mom was led down some new paths. Rhodes, who received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical education, now teaches a homeschool P.E. class for teens and works with homeschool moms in a “Commit 2 Fit” program. Rhodes is also a distributor for Advocare nutritional products.
