Seven Homeschool Takes

How it will be fine if you're not a wicked malign person and basically do your best and trust God as much as you can.

It’s Friyay, ya’ll, and on Monday the remaining four of my children who have not yet started school will, indeed, begin. I don’t even know how long I’ve been doing this, but Facebook keeps offering memories of first-day pictures from over the years, which, really since COVID, I have neglected to take.

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I mean to, I just always get busy on the first day and remember a month later and then it seems hypocritical, or weird. This year I will though—maybe….perhaps…oh who am I kidding? So anyway, let me see, can I come up with six or seven nostalgic or advice-laden takes? After all, I’ve taught six children to read. I’m basically still standing, although much stooped and sore from my efforts.

One

I said this years ago (I don’t know where) but unless the Lord makes the child spell, the mother labors in vain. You can teach a child in the way she should go, but there is a sort of impenetrable force field that God has to do something about, or none of the information goes in. Therefore, while you’re “doing the work,” whatever it might be at any given moment, you should also be begging God to make it so. Only he can make the sounds go in the ear and come out as a word on a page. That hidden, mysterious task was invented by him, and so he has to be the one to do it.