Why I home school...

Why do I home school? I home school because I saw my children and my life cluttered with public school. I know what you’re thinking. I became a stay at home mom In October and had the “best of both worlds.” I get to wake the kids at 6:15, get them ready for school, feed them breakfast and put them on a school bus not to “deal” with them until the bus drops them off at 2:45. Eight hours to myself to clean, grocery shop, study my Bible. Who could ask for more? Right? Wrong! No matter how hard I tried to stay positive, my children were so stressed out when they got home, that it became a dreaded time when they got off the bus.  With another couple of hours of homework, making dinner, outside play with the neighborhood kids, baths and bedtime soon to follow, where was I suppose to fit in some good “quality” time with them? I saw my children 30 minutes before the bus came to pick them up (usually not a good 30 minutes, grouchy babies that didn’t want to go to school) a couple hours of homework help after school, dinner and baths to average a total of 4 to 5 hours, if I was lucky. Yet, I sent them off to a public school system, that doesn’t allow God, or his views, for 8 hours a day. Even if I got up preaching and teaching God, got them off the bus preaching and teaching God, I was still falling behind. Studies show that kids should get a recommended 12 hours of sleep at night for proper brain development. If we follow that regimen, we only leave ourselves with 4 hours, at best with them, and only if we ignore the cooking dinner and helping each child individually with their homework. That’s half the time we’ve let the ungodly public school have them each day. The numbers do not lie here. My mother use to have a saying. She would say, “Becki, if you take a white piece of paper and you put it in a bag of dirt, does the white from the paper rub off on the dirt, or does the dirt rub off on the paper?” Although, she was talking about the company I was keeping, wouldn’t this apply to the influence we subject our children to each and every day? So, can you see that now with my 4 children with me 24 hours out of the day (10-12 sleeping) I have an opportunity to instill in them the Holy Word of God? This is why I home school. Do I sit them down and pull out the Bible the entire time we are awake? No, but I get the opportunity to bring in Godly values in all areas of life, even Math! Nothing better than limiting Satan’s influence in their lives, instead of limiting God’s! “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” Proverbs 22:6