This is the technically the seventh year that we have been homeschooling. I am still working hard at figuring out how to do it "all". More importantly, trying to discern what God wants me to do. I usually follow the pendulum approach. You know, starting out as a laid back homeschooler then freaking out that my children don't know all that they should and making them do things they probably don't need to do, then burning out and going to the extreme of much too laid back home schooling. I didn't say it was healthy, that just seems to be how it works out. I hear way too much homeschool guilt out there and always say It won't happen to me, but it does. Now that my oldest is in 6th grade, I really feel the need to get things together so they are prepared for the work that lies ahead for them. So in a sense, I do feel like our homeschooling is changing. I don't feel like I can be so wishy washy about what we are learning or always count a day at the park as science. I do need to be much more intentional and, here is the key folks, good at follow through. Ouch. I said it. So this year I am putting it on paper, writing out goals and ways to measure them. I know that I don't do this alone, my husband has much to say about their education and holds me accountable to see that they can read and write, but much of the content he leaves up to me. He is sort of the superintendent of the operation. I pray much about what God would have me teach my children and definitely follow His leading. But now since a grumpy three year old has just entered the room, I will write about those such things in the next post.
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