Because it is right...

As I mentioned yesterday, today was a pretty light day, school-wise. We had a great day together as a family and just enjoyed Daddy being home with us. It is great to have the freedom and flexibility to be able to do that.

I wanted to share with you a book that has really influenced my thoughts on home schooling. It is one that I was highly encouraged to read, and I would encourage anyone to read it as well. Here's a little snippet that really articulates what I felt in my heart but did not know how to express...

Educating The WholeHearted Child
By: Clay and Sally Clarkson

..."And in your heart, you made that step of faith to do what you knew was right-to bring your children home to disciple and educate them as a family.

That decision though, was not an uninformed or blind leap of faith. It was guided by conviction, born out of much consideration and research, and shaped in your heart and mind by the Holy Spirit. You have good reasons why home schooling is the right thing to do. You home school because it is right to guard your children against the aggressive secular, humanistic worldview of the public school. You home school because it is right shield your children from the immorality that permeates the public school, both the student body and the faculty. You home school because it is right to protect your children from the violence and wickedness that inflicts so many public schools. You home school because it is right to want your children to receive a better education under your loving guidance than the average public school is providing. You home school because it is right for parents to control what their children are studying and are being exposed to without being labelled intolerant and narrow-minded. You home school because it is right to decide that learning at home is better stewardship than spending thousands of dollars for a private school. You home school because it is right to follow God's design for family, not just in living, but in learning as well. You home school because it is right to guide your children's Christian character development at home rather than allow them to be "socialized" by secular, untrained, unsupervised school mates. You home school because it is right to keep your children under your authority until they are grown, rather than place them under other unknown authorities at school. You home school because it is right to love your children and want to be with them everyday of their lives until they are grown-that is what God intended."

I hope this has encouraged you as much as it has encouraged me...

~Elizabeth~