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IT CAN BE EXCITING
What is your plan as you begin homeschooling your children each day? Are you facing the huge challenge of completing all the curriculums you purchased for each child? Your goal is to make sure you get through them all?Dear mother, can I encourage you to relax. To make sure your children complete all their lessons each day is not true education. What is the meaning of education? It comes from a Latin word meaning, "to draw forth from within, to bring out, to lead forth, to develop the innate capacities of, to rear." It has the meaning of upbringing rather than instruction.
Get on the right track, dear mother. There is much more to education that stuffing your children with information that they will invariably forget. God has divinely put desires and aspirations to seek out knowledge in each one of your children. He has given them unique gifts and abilities. Seek to draw forth and bring out what God has already put in them. This makes education exciting, and you work with God instead of plodding on your own.
I am most probably looking from a different perspective than you. My children are mostly in their fifties. My oldest son will be 60 years this coming birthday! What do I see looking back? More than ever, I see that God put His plan in them from the beginning of time. They have accomplished amazing things, beyond what I could have ever taught them. They have fulfilled their dreams in spite of me! It wasn't their school lessons that helped them do what they are doing today. It was the gifting God had already put in them.
Of course, there are disciplines of teaching and learning that are important for life. But dear mother, always keep in mind that your highest calling is to draw out from within your children the amazing gifts God has put in them and LEAD THEM FORTH with encouragement, motivation, and vision to fulfill the GREAT THINGS GOD HAS FOR THEM.
This makes your homeschooling exciting rather than a weight on your shoulders.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
