1. I get to spend all my days with my children. I get to see them in the sunshine and in the rain. Their best hours aren't spent with teachers I don't know. (If you're only away from your children from 8:00 to 3:00, when they're in school - not including extra-curricular activities - you've missed out on over 16,000 hours with them by the time they turn 18)
2. We get to mentor and discipline them all day, every day.
3. We have lots of time to spend memorizing His Word and reading His Word - not rushing out the door to learn in a God-less environment.
4. Everything I teach we can point to God.
5. The kids have the privilege of caring for lots of animals on a daily basis (hard to do when you're gone all day)
6. As my children age, we can devote more studies to subjects they're interested in and tweak their courses accordingly.
7. They have oodles of time to pursue their loves and hobbies. (everyone finishes at noon except Owen occasionally has afternoon studies)
8. We can sleep in if we want!! :)
9. No commitments to be anywhere, and no rushing out the door in the morning. We enjoy our delicious breakfast while I read Scripture and a chapter book at the table.
10. My kids are close to each other and spend the day playing with each other.
11. My children are not concerned with brand-name clothes and looking "cool."
12. We eat 21 healthy meals a week together.
13. I know my children intimately and don't have to "deprogram" anything they've learned or heard in school that is contrary to our belief system and values.
14. WE decide when they are mature enough to learn about sex, drugs, abortion, et cetera, not their peers.
15. We can go on vacation any time we want.
16. We can "school" any time we want - day or night, summer or winter.
17. Homeschooling gives us more time/opportunity to serve our community.
18. My children can travel with Daddy when they're older on his work trips and not worry about "missing" school.
19. The amount of free time we have enables us to read more books together as a family.
20. I'm not a slave to my home. My children grow up learning how to cook and care for a home so it's not all on my shoulders.
21. I don't have to buy them lots of clothes to "keep up with the Joneses" at school.
22. My children aren't teased or bullied by other children that are out of my control. Yes, they are teased and bullied by their siblings at times, but I'm right there to stop it. I was bullied in junior high, and it changes you forever!!
23. My children know how to care for babies. My oldest has changed more diapers than I did with my last set of twins. They get to spend those fleeting days with their siblings that grow up so quickly. Babies are babies for such a short season! :(
24. I save gas by not having to drive my kids to and from school 180 times a year.
25. I can do in 3 hours what it takes teachers (by no fault of their own) 7 hours to do, and my children never have homework after school. Yahoo!!
26. My children are not peer-dependent. Almost all of our time is spent together as a family, learning from Mommy and Daddy. How can you teach a 3 year-old to share? By putting him in a class with 15 other 3 year-olds? No, from learning from their family.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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