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Post by SisterNancy on Jun 28, 2008 12:42:23 GMT -5
PRAISE GOD ...THE only person we have to please with our homeschooling is HIM!
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Post by 7schmicks on Jun 30, 2008 23:21:03 GMT -5
I know how you feel, Sister Andrea, about discouragement in homeschooling. Although our parents don't appear to disagree with our decision to school our children at home, my dad is always hinting that he thinks our children are too sheltered by reminding us about camp or some thing that happens to be going on somewhere that he thinks we ought to take the children to. Also, I've felt so burned out and overburdened that I think I've lost my vision for what the Lord wants for my children. I've been just coasting along for a very long time, "doing school," and I know that I need something better than that. I'm not happy with the way my children are turning out, in some ways. We don't see much spiritual hunger or growth in them. Have any of you heard of Heart of Wisdom curriculum? (http://heartofwisdom.com) It seems very Bible-centered. How about A-squared? (http://hstreasures.com) It is like the Robinson Curriculum but more complete and less expensive. How about Lifestyle Education through Discipleship? (http://www.angelfire.com/ne/meandmyhouse/led.html) These are three that I'm going to look at more closely, for ideas, at least. I know that I need to make some serious changes in the way our days go. My main problem may be my own lack of self-discipline and consistency in child training -- which means that my children are learning bad habits. The Christian life should be orderly, so that we are enabled to do the important things that He wants us to do, and self-discipline is often the character trait that means the difference between continual failure and spiritual victory. Needless to say, I've been spending a lot of time searching, pondering and praying about which way to take our schooling next year. I need to focus more on Bible and Chrisitan character with them, for that's what matters most and is the basis for doing well in all of the other subjects. It will be a more difficult year because of the fact that we are now living with my mother-in-law, whose health is not the best, so I have extra stress placed on me. (Not to mention all of the work trying to combine two households into one by cleaning out both!) We moved in with her in January, and the last half of the school year was especially hard for to me. I'm afraid I didn't do well checking up on my children and I found, too late, that my 12-year-old basically did no work the last quarter, so I'm having a very hard time getting my last quarter report done because I'm ashamed of both of us. I could really use all of your prayers for direction, wisdom and strength to decide what to do and how to do it. Sister Brenda
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Post by Brother Ben on Oct 16, 2008 15:39:11 GMT -5
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Post by carolejw on Oct 16, 2008 16:19:53 GMT -5
We also use CLE, and we find it easy to use and very thorough it it's scope. And it is very good at teaching Bible and Christian values.
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Post by Andrea on Oct 25, 2008 23:09:23 GMT -5
This year we actually tried using the Ohio Virtual Academy online school. It is a public charter school. .. I truly have no idea why we decided to try this way of schooling but we did. Oh my! We have pulled our children out of it. Our daughter is in the 10th grade (almost 16 years old) and our son is in the 6th grade (almost 12 years old). We have just about always homeschooled our children with the exception of a year in the public school (both) and a year in the Christian school (just our daughter). I can't believe how far down the public schools have sunk in what they are trying to pass off as education. The last straw was when my son had to read a story that pushed tolerance of the homosexual lifestyle and tolerance to extreme middle eastern religions (muslim). I was so shocked. I don't want to go into details about the homosexual story but it was about a boy that was "different" from all the other boys. He liked to cook, bake and sew and his teacher "hated" him because he was so different. By the end of the story, it had the teacher apologizing to the boy because she was not accepting of his "different" lifestyle and she had no right to judge him. .. I stopped my son right there and turned off the computer and called the next day pulled both of them out!! We are now back to our Christian based homeschool books and things are so much better!!! My son is using for his math, Language and reading, the Mennonite publications that I've always used with him. And then Abeka for Science and spelling. We are using Mystery of History for history. My daughter is using mainly Abeka for everything except math and she using Saxon Algebra II for that.
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