http://visionarydaughters.com/2009/10/announcing-homeschool-dropouts
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Homeschooling was extremely difficult. I certainly didn't do it because it was easy.I believed we were called to do it. I felt an overwhelming responsibility to not take it lightly. Just being a mother of 6 is an overwhelming responsibility, and then to add homeschooling to the mix. We excelled with our homeschooling for many years. We were an example, ( ground breakers in the homeschooling movement) to many church families and home school groups. But years passed, things changed and we didn't have respect from our own children. It is impossible to share and teach as a family without respect towards each other. We were more of a disgrace to the homeschooling movement; it went from one extreme to the other. I hope and pray it doesn't happen with any of your children, it's sad when you work and sacrifice so hard and you get negative results, it wasn't supposed to work that way.I feel home schooling tore us apart as a family.I work with 20 year olds that were public schooled and have such a deep love and respect for their parents,many of them from divorced parents.I would like anyone's input on what I am saying here. I am not bitter just airing my view and would like to get another view on this. We have 2 girls that are just totally trashing their lives. They are living with boys who they are not married to and are definitely not Bible believers.(it is much worse than what I am saying here)Any good parent, Christian or other, would not want their daughter making these choices. This is not how I pictured things back in the day to day, year after year of teaching my children with love. This is not why we sacrificed so much of our lives to get this result. I want to know what went wrong? I am questioning God here as well as where we went wrong.I feel like it wouldn't hurt so much if I had public schooled everyone.This is why this video has spoken to me. If I were able to decide all over again would I make that big sacrifice? Maybe not.
On another note...I hope seeing that picture of Grandpa below will cause you grandchildren to at least give him a call. Saturdays and early mornings and between 5p.m.and 7p.m are the best times to reach him. He prays for each and every one of you and your children(even the ones hes never seen).He gets very lonely.
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I watched the video but I still don't get what it's all about. They use a lot of vague metaphors like "dropping the ball" but never say exactly what ball they are talking about. Is it that too many of our generation won't wear denim jumpers?...ha ha ha.
I'm proud to be a 2nd gen homeschooler and tell everyone I can about it.
I can't say that I see homeschooling as a sacrifice, though. It would be a greater sacrifice to send the kids to public school. The privilege to raise and educate children is one of God's greatest blessings. I can't imagine rejecting that blessing and saying no thanks, I'll just turn it over to someone else. That would seem an impossible sacrifice and I fail to see how so many make it so easily.
I do expect my children to grow up to be careful, thoughtful, and persistent in the Christian faith. Not because of homeschooling or because I'm a great parent, but because God promises that he will hold on to those who are his own. Regardless, even if they do leave the faith, I won't regret homeschooling them any more than I would regret feeding them if one of them died. I wouldn't say, "Well, I shouldn't have fed that one because he died anyway." At the end of the day it would seem that we ought to be training up our children because it is God's blessing and God's command to us to do so, not because we expect any certain results in the future.
Luke, For once I agree with you.lol Even though I don't feel like homschooling is in the future for my family. I am very glad that I was homeschooled and mom did an excellent job of it. The decisions we make as adults don't always reflect where we came from or how we were raised. Some of us are just bull-headed,and have to make a bunch of bad mistakes before settling down.
Thanks Luke and Julia, I appreciate any loving feedback from my children.
Luke, while I was at Grandpas he showed me with pride ,the letter you wrote back to him. It was very well written and Grandpa greatly appreciated you taking the time. You were the only grandson that wrote him back on that subject. He sent letters to all 6 of his grandsons. He keeps that letter right on top of the desk in his den.
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