WHY we chose homeschool...

Something occurred to me today after watching my daughter get out our lunch for the day and start preparing it. Not only because she was hungry, but also to help. I have sat back and watched as both of my children have really started helping around the house and with each other more and more each day. Haylee loves to bathe the dog, do laundry and help cook. RJ loves to help unload the dishwasher and also help cook, even if it is only requires making sandwiches. His wife may thank us one day! 
 It hit me! What we REALLY want them to gain from homeschool. Here are a few that stand out:
1. We want them to LOVE the process of learning! Not something that is FORCED, but something that leaves them wanting more.
2. We want them to learn in the real life situations. Learning is not all about books and sitting at a desk 7 hours a day. Yes, you need book time, and a good amount of it. But so much more can be learned and retained through everyday life.
3. We want them to grow into the people God made them to be. Not who society, or another peer group may tell them to be. To have a strong sense of who they are, not who others think they are or should be.
4. We want them to see through God's eyes, not the world's. It is a very different view.
5. We want to instill values that are so lacking and fading in today's world.

No, we are not putting them in a bubble. But this world around us is changing so fast and we don't want to change with it.

GOD is the same no matter how fast things change. He is the same as He has been always.

 

I am looking to Him more than ever so I can fulfill the plans He has for my life. And we are doing our best to guide our children to fulfill the plans He has for their lives.
I want to walk on the path He has set for me, no matter what it looks like to the world around us. 

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 

~ Jeremiah 29:11