If you are a homeschooler

You MUST read this article. This is probably the best thing I have read in 10 years.

I know that one of my personal issues with our homeschooling journey is that I am tossed to and fro by every wind of homeschooling doctrine.

I started this journey reading Ruth Beechick. I agreed wholeheartedly. I moved on to Sally Clarkson, same vein. I still pull out my very worn out "Educating the Wholehearted Child" When I am feeling burned out. It's been on my nightstand for a month, now. The old Elijah Company catalog was a wealth of information that encouraged me to continue on a simple path.

Then, I read The Well Trained Mind. I bought more expensive curriculum. Confusion set in, because my flesh and soul began battling. I was lured by the promise of turning out, well...well trained minds. James 3:16 says that where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil thing. yep.

I bounced from curriculum to curriculum. Disliking this and declaring that that didn't work. I spent three years loving the concept of Tapestry of Grace and finding it harder and harder to "do." Don't even ask how this year went. That rhetoric level is a butt kicker.

If you have read my blog for any length of time you know that Isaiah 54:13 is my go to verse for our homeschool. "All your children will be taught of the Lord and great will be the peace of your children." My back up verse is, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you." Shoot! I just quoted it to someone the other day, when we were talking about order in the home.

It's no wonder my kids are way off base and out in left field (I can use that metaphor because it's baseball season - which btw, I am so done with, not that it's over, I am just done.)

For the last two years, I have been more focused on getting N through high school and into a "good college" than I have been concerned about his character, or worse, his soul. In turn, I have neglected his brothers. I have been shocked on more than one occasion this year to find that Q has been failing math lessons. He's a math genius, I tell you, this should NOT be happening.

I encourage and exhort you to read this article.