I feel a strong need to write this down. It’s going to be emotional because that’s just where I am in this moment, and I feel being present is important.
I have been overhearing several parents at playgrounds and libraries on the reason why homeschooling is not right for their child. Although I know every child has different needs, my nosiness has brought me to the conclusion that a major reason – based on my totally not IRB approved and completely biased research – is that fear plays a HUGE role in these comments. I feel I can speak to this issue because I have – for three years now – been cleaning up the debris left over from taking the log out of my own eye when it comes to homeschooling. As a prior teacher, I can tell you in complete honesty there is no way I ever thought homeschooled children were even close to the children I was schooling on any level – academic, social, emotional, etc…. Was I wrong!!!! My plank had to come out forcefully due to the circumstances that led to my abandoning my 10-year career and I know what that fear I mentioned earlier feels like. The amount of questions and worries that comes into the mind of a homeschooling mom or dad – especially the one that underlies the majority of our concerns. You probably know which one I’m talking about already. It’s the “Am I [insert things like good, educated, etc.] enough?” It’s that nasty little fear that other people will do the job better than we can. Well, I just want to remind myself and whoever reads this that Yah says we are and what He says is true. He gave us our children to raise them up in His ways and trusted us with them. He is faithful, are we? He has us walking His path, do we trust Him on it even with our children’s education? Yes, it is scary, but so many of us have taken this journey with its million ups and downs and for that we are walking a brave walk. We are looking at that fear in the face and telling it there is no place for it in our hearts because our hearts are filled with Ruach. We are enough because we are giving it our all to do the best job we can and no one else will try that hard with our children. We may struggle one day, but Yah willing we will have another chance and through this our children will see the Word lived out. What a privilege! So, to the brave ….
Dalet I sought יהוה, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.
Hĕ They looked to Him and were lightened, Waw And their faces were not ashamed.
Tet Oh, taste and see that יהוה is good; Blessed is the man that takes refuge in Him!
Psalm 34:4-5,8
Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendour to their children.
And let the pleasantness Of יהוה our Elohim be upon us, And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!
Psalm 90:16-17
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it.
Proverbs 22:6
“And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9
My people, give ear to my Torah, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old, Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us. We do not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of יהוה, And His strength and His wonders which He has done. For He raised a witness in Ya‛aqoḇ, And set a Torah in Yisra’ĕl, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children; That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children, And place their trust in Elohim, And not forget the works of Ěl, But watch over His commands, And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to Ěl.
Psalm 78:1-8
Shalom, brave ones.
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