"I just don't have the patience" And Other Homeschooling Myths Busted

"I just don't know how you do it."
"I could never do that. Being with my kids all day long?"
"I don't have teacher experience."
"I'm just not qualified to homeschool."

Have you heard these arguments against homeschooling before? Are you the one making these excuses? If so, I have news for you:

• I don't have enough patience to homeschool either.
• I don't have the teacher qualifications.
• Most moms don't feel qualified to even parent, let alone teach their kids.

But you know what? We do it anyway. And the ones I hang out with get all that they need from the Creator, who fills them with Supernatural peace, gives them mercies new every day, and  doesn't call the qualified (to homeschool), but qualifies the called. So if you feel lead to teach your kids, for whatever reason, He will give you all that you need. 

Also, if you are parent who truly loves your kids, you know your kids. Better than any teacher trying to hep your kids get some knew information. You can learn their learning styles, and you know what doesn't work and what does work in disciplining them. You know what their likes and dislikes are. You ARE qualified.

If you never had any teaching experience, there are hundreds, at least, other homeschooling moms just like you that follow very specific curriculum designed just for moms like you. Curriculum that shows you what to do, so that you need no prior experience.  So you can do it if you feel this is the best choice for your family. 

This is not as complicated as it might seem. It just has to be the right choice for your children. For your family. If you truly believe that homeschooling is what your kids need, you CAN do it!

There seem to be more and more reasons lately to homeschool.

Have you read anything about the "Common Core" ?? If so, you may have been chilled to your bones about the type of control the government is attempting to gain over the children of America. It is becoming less the home of the free with each new mandate of this program. I am not going to allow the government to dictate what my child will be learning any longer. And I do not believe that testing is actually a form of proof of what the child has learned, either. So with that in mind, I am very grateful that (for now, anyway,) I have the freedom to home school. I will take that advantage while I still have it and fill my kids' minds up with real knowledge and good things.

I hope that wasn't too political for you. I'm sorry if it was. This is a real issue for me. A serious one. I am not willing to bury my head in the proverbial sand and let my kids be "parented" by the public school system. If you are reading this, and this is a concern for you, too, but you just don't know if you can do homeschooling, don't worry. You can. If you want what is best for your child, you are already on the right track. If homeschooling is not the best thing for your child, you will know, and you will make the right decision. But it isn't a matter of 'can you', because if it is the right thing, you will have what you need.


There are all those pesky rules to follow. Or not. If you're like me, you use the freedoms that come with homeschooling to make your own rules. I am the kind of think-outside-the-box type of person that make up my own rules to custom fit my family when I think the per-existing ones don't fit.
Like this:

Okay, so maybe not like that, exactly, but you get my drift.

This is exactly what I want for my kids, which is why they are not in a classroom.

By the way, check out her blog. She totally rocks at encouraging homeschooling moms. http://heidistjohn.com/tbmb/blog/

Here is something encouraging to read:

And here is something funny:

Remember what is the most important thing here: Your child's mind and future. It needs to be brought up, cultivated and nurtured. It's not about shoveling information into their brains, it's about preparing them for the rest of their lives.

May the rest of this year be blessed!