Four reasons your children will thank you for home schooling them.
Thinking about not home schooling this year? Understandable, given the year we’ve been through- the emotional, physical, and financial stress that have landed on us. Add to this the constant messaging and daily browbeating being dished out by many political office holders and media personalities in an attempt to influence our behavior. Whatever side of the vax controversy you find yourself on, you’re likely feeling fatigued, exhausted, and worried.
If you’re on the fence about what you’re doing educationally next year, I want to encourage you to stay the course, to continue to home school. Your children will thank you (at least they should thank you) for these reasons:
- Stability: Home schooling provides stability, and our children need as much as they can get.Will schools open in September? Probably. Will they stay open? Who knows. Will children return to a hybrid or remote learning model? Maybe. Will masks be required for the entire year? Again, who knows. So much uncertainty. Home schooling provides stability.
- Control: Home schooling provides a barrier, a defense, a solid academic alternative to the nonsense that is increasingly being forced on children in public schools. You can return to the sanity that once characterized education- a focus on learning what matters and the values that undergird it. You’re in control!
- Safety: Covid 19 is real, and a real threat to the wellbeing of our children. Regardless of the statistical improbability of your children coming down with it, if your child gets it, statistics are meaningless in their case. Home schooling provides physical safety.
- Perspective: First Thessalonians 4:13 tells us, But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. Home schooling is a solid platform from which we can help our children interpret the effects of the pandemic. The Bible, as a chosen educational foundation, can bring comfort. It’s not a code book to understanding the end of the world; it’s a revelation of Jesus Christ and his authority, love, and forgiveness.
Just my thoughts as we get closer to the beginning of school.
Thanks for reading!
Curt Bumcrot, MRE
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