| We did not choose to homeschool our children because we wanted to keep them away from the world for religious reasons. We began homeschooling because we knew our child would better thrive educationally with more one on one attention. Also, we wanted to homeschool because we enjoy being with our child, and we wanted to leave our life open for travel and for real life experiences. We wanted to free him to learn in his unique style and address his particular need. wE know over time this will fluctuate, and we want to stay open to that. Nevertheless, one great benefit of homeschooling is the option to teach faith in God, in conjunction with secular education. One feature of our curriculum that we simply love, is scripture memorization. When I was young, I thought it was so cool that people could memorize large passages of scripture, or Shakespeare, or verse of any sort. I wanted our kids to be able to do that. So we embarked on teaching and memorizing scripture; an entire alphabet of scripture. You ought to hear this Lil' Monster go through the alphabet, singing a scripture per letter. I love hearing him singing these verses during his play time.  |
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Here Lil' Monster is playing and
learning the 10 Commandments,
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by pretending to be Moses.
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The benefit of homeschooling, is that we can help our child be educated in all subjects; not just secular, not just religious, not just worksheets, not just daily activities, etc - but a well rounded knowledge. We believe Homeschool is about learning to learn.
But I do love that we are free to teach faith.
