How far would you go to keep homeschooling your child(ren)?

Okay its started, now i can read and get encouraged again, thanks folks!

 

If you can afford to stay home and live on your husband's income or if you supplement the income some how it sure makes things less worry free. If you enjoy homeschooling and your children are bennifiting from it. Family support is helpful.

 

I think everyone's situation is completely different and what I would be willing to give up would be less or more than the next person. It's one of those gut wrenching questions that you have to ask yourself. "What would you give up?" Because in the end...that is what matters the most, right? :wink:

We all give and get and the more we give the more we tend to get. Give of your heart and it will take you far!

HTH

 

okay, I am just trying to get us to think about how cool it is that we are home schooling, giving of oruselves to benifit our kids. It is kind of romantic, and honorable what we all have done. You know what I mean? We are a bunch of good parents helping out our kids to give them the best we can. I personally think its a cool thing, though I was kind of feeling discouraged earlier, I was trying to get some conversations going on here. I think maybe this one was too deep of a question or something, but what I really want to know is IF you could do whatever you could do, if schools were perfect and we all had all the money in the world at our beck and call... what would you do to home school y our kids? Would you hire a tutor and make them the smartest kids in the world? Would you focus on giving your kids the most fun education or the highest most stressful education if there were no boundaries?
Give yourself a selah moment here and think on these things....
THink good stuff about this not oh man what did I give up.... y ou know what I mean?

 

I don't ever think about what I have given up, unless it's sometimes time alone with my dh! :lol: I think we all have our children as our priority, so that's what we focus on---the positives of what we are doing!

I would still homeschool my children, no matter what! But if I had all the money in the world to spend, I would travel with them more, doing mission trips, and helping others. That's where they gain such a huge benefit! When we went as missionaries for 2 1/2 weeks to Fiji last summer (our whole family only made it there because God helped everything fall into place, as some of you remember!), oh man, what an impression that made on our children! We are closer as a family and more in tune with how God is leading in our lives than we ever were before! I LOVE that! I think that's worth more than any book learning!

 

If the school was perfect, if you could hand pick the teachers, I wouldn't homeschool. Not in a situation like mine where it's only one child, anyway.

 

Would you be willing to break the law and go to jail like is happening now in Germany?

 

Thats a big yes here. After my sons first 4 years of ps and the fact that my son was a very lost little boy. And now that I have my son back, the one I remember before we went into the school system. I would have a very hard time trusting someone with his education. I almost lost my little boy because he thought he was stupid and didn't want to be here any more. I believe hs saved his life. Of course with my help, family and God.

 

That is a good question! My husband and I actually discussed that. I asked him what we would do if they ever made it illegal to do home teaching?
He said, he guessed we would break the law because they are our kids and no one is going to tell us what we can and can't do in regards to thier good Godly up bringing.
I know my kids are unique too and need the attention and attentivness as well as the leave me alone and let me study at my own pace times. In a larger classroom I don't see them getting that. Of course over all that I know I was called by God to teach my kids but thats another thread heheh...

 

I firmly believe God has told me to Homeschool. That means I'll do it no matter what. It's really hard staying home when mine is the only income, but God has provided for us and I know He will continue to. I've never had to buy Sami clothes for one example, every time I think... "hmmm she really needs some new pants!" Someone shows up with like 25 pairs of pants in Sami's size. Same for shoes and other things she needs. I am always having to give some away because we have too many. I know we are covered reguardless of money.

Would I break the law to homeschool? YES! Anything that I'm convinced God told me to do is worth whatever I have to face to do it. That said, I sure hope I don't have to... I'm stressed enough without adding more LOL

If I had all the money I could ever want to homeschool and could do whatever I wanted.. I'd be like Deena and take Sami on Mission trips and have her travel the whole world, Learning about diffrent cultures and Geography and how other people worship God as we went. I'd also take a year long hiking trip through something like the Appalachian trail. (LOL of course I'd need to be in better shape and wait till Sami was a couple years older for that one!)

 

What is happening to the kids in Germany whose parents are being arrested??

 

I'm thinking they are in hiding. Am not sure.

 

I could see that happening. I would.

 

Hmm, you know I was thinking on this and we are not far off from that, with CPS and all. I am sure from how you all talk that you are good home schooling parents, but there are some folks out there who put a bad name on home teaching because they don't really 'have a calling' or keep up wiht the learning etc. That is what scares me at times, not really scares but makes me wonder what will happen if some of them get in the news?

 

I heard "old time" HS'ers talk about how, every time the doorbell rang, the kids would go diving into special hiding places, in case it was a Social Worker. Some acutally had "drills"! I, for one, would very probably break the law rather than to let the government attempt to brainwash my children.

 

First of all, this is one of those questions to which a "yes" answer is easier said than done. It is very easy to say, like Peter, "I am ready to go to prison and to death for you, Lord." But we all know what Peter actually did when he was faced with the temptation.

I take this question very seriously. My wife and I homeschool out of conviction - that is, we are not willing to surrender our children for 8 hours every day to have their hearts and minds poisoned with Satan's agenda. So I have no doubt that Satan hates homeschooling.

I sincerely believe by the grace of God that I would go to prison rather than send my children to PS, but I also expect that this would be a very lonely stand. In other words, I think a large percentage of homeschoolers would cave in under such a trial. At any rate, we would with very few exceptions NOT have the support of our churches, pastors or Christian friends. I hate to sound like Eeyore, but that's my opinion of American Christianity and I think we may all be faced with this choice sooner than any of us expect.

Sincerely,

Roger

 

You wouldn't be the only one, there are more than a few of us, Roger, that would join in that stance! It is VERY serious, and must be thought through carefully! Many people try homeschooling for awhile, just because they can. But in the end, if it were to come to that, how many would join in and stand for what we believe? I don't know, but I know you would not be standing alone!

 

When we started, we probably wouldn't have felt so strongly. Homeschooling was "my" thing. DH was all supportive of me doing it, but had no real convictions one way or the other. But God has really worked in his life, and now he has very strong convictions about it. I have no doubt that he (or I) would be willing to go to jail.

 

We are blessed at our church to have a kids pastor who had homeschooled his own four kids prior to starting up a homeschool type private school at our church> i am sure in that case that we would have support of at least his family.
There are others at our church that would not support us. I would hope that I would stand as my husband said, and do it anyway.
God is on my side so I know I would be able to do anything!

 

But what is accomplished if you are locked up?

Your kids are separated from you. What kind of learning would they get then? They would be traumatized and for what- to make a point to the government? 'A pawn' comes to mind..

What kinds of things would we endure in jail? What purpose does that serve? The government wins here, too.

I'm not trying to be a thorn in anyone's side, but I see no point in getting locked up for wanting to h.s., should it ever be declared illegal here.

I don't ever see that happening, any way.

If the children are trained up in the way they should go, what they see and hear in school won't affect them. Staying involved as the parent is how to circumvent any outside influence as well.