I Learn As Much As They Do

Homeschooling isn't just for the kids.  I have learned just as much, if not more now, than I ever remember in school.  We learn together!  We learn biblically, academically, physically, emotionally.

With so many subjects, you have to be a master at what you teach...except for the subjects you can use a teacher's manual for and fake your way through.  But then there are those other ones.  The ones you can't fake (at least fake well).  You have to study, be sharp and on top of it, so when the questions start, you have an answer, or at very minimum, a way to find the answer.

I've discovered more about biblical history than I've ever learned before.  Science, English, Manners, Art, Spanish.  We dig deep and in some subjects, even deeper still.  Schooling is so much more than teaching your children.  It is engaging in these subjects yourself, and helping them understand it and learn it just as much, if not more.  It's getting them excited to discover and making what we're learning come alive!

I'm thankful for this opportunity to educate myself again and really want to understand it, not memorizing it for the sake of taking a test.  God's world is truly amazing and this gift of education we are given in America is a precious gift.  Not one to be taken for granted.

Ephesians 5:16-17, "Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity...."