Thank you, friends, but I didn't mean to generate all that sympathy! I was trying to be an encouragement to other moms who get the I-wanna-quit's like I do. By way of explanation, again, Tuesdays are hard here, because they are the "Monday" of our school week. The day after the break. The day when we come back to reality. (Maybe I need to reevaluate “reality”.) The child with the math problem (no pun intended) seems to have forgotten each Tuesday everything she has learned the entire previous week, sometimes year. I have not been able to discern whether this is really a math anxiety thing, or just an obedience thing. I cannot give away her age, because she will feel betrayed. But I will tell you we are doing percents, distance problems, double- and triple-digit division, equivalent fractions. There are lots of tricks for the smaller kids, I know, and we have done many of them. Maybe we just need a different curriculum, one that explains very clearly and concisely, without a lot of extra reading, WHY we use the formulas that we do. I think it helps a lot to know how we arrive at the methods we use.
No, I am not quitting. When I said we homeschool as a matter of conviction (see previous post), I meant that we do it because we believe it is morally right, and that the alternative is morally wrong. The Bible backs me up on this. God doesn’t change his mind about right and wrong. He is not going to send me down a different path on moral issues. Yes, sometimes people are in a jam and are forced to send their kids to school, but that is because of sin. Not necessarily their sin, but certainly because of sin. The whole system is messed up and hopelessly irreparable. But as long as I have the legal freedom to teach my kids in God’s prescribed way, I am going to do it. I might even do it if the freedom is taken away. If we disagree about the moral issue, that’s okay. I’ll just stand where I stand for as long as I can stand!
Believe me you are an encouragment to us other moms. It's good to hear the difficulties other homeschoolers are having. It's nice for those of us who do have difficulties, to be able to encourage someone else. It takes our mind off of our difficulties. :) Thanks for the honesty.
ReplyDeleteJoAnn
We all have bad days and it's good to share, I think this fact alone is encouraging for other Mothers. I feel uncomfortable when others nearly put us on a pedestal for choosing to hs, or I had one lady who felt bad around me for sending her kids to school, I hate that, so I tell them the truth, somedays I do it very roughly, unfortunately. If it wasn't for Jesus I would be a hopeless , I wouldn't last homeschooling for 5 minutes :)
ReplyDeleteTracy
I nearly forgot the carrot recipe is boil, drain, add butter and honey simmer for a minute. Thanks for dropping by my blog :)