Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for the opportunity I have to home school my children. This is the end of our first full year with our little RainDrops at home. It was a year of adjusting and decompression from school. But all in all we are enjoying our time together.

If the day goes awry we just take stock, either change attitudes or start over tomorrow. With a year of surgeries and doctor appointments I have not worried about missing to much school. School either goes with us or we make it up tomorrow.

I have to the time to work on character and spiritual development. Public school introduces our children to situations and topics they are not spiritually ready to handle. And many times we do not know that the situations have occurred until it is too late. Homeschooling we have the ability to to guide our children through these situations as they are happening.

And of course there are the days that if you want to you can do school in your PJs and no body really knows or cares!

Top 10 Reason's We Homeschool

10. Family time
9. My kids have different learning styles
8. There are no minimum or maxim number of hours or days we must or must not have school
7. There is more to learning than just textbooks
6. If we do not understand a topic we keep working on it until we do
5. If we find a topic is too hard we can put it off for awhile until we have learned other lessons
that will make that topic easier to understand
4. Life is learning experience
3. The spirit must also be taught
2. As parents we choose the lesson and they way they are taught
1. We can teach character and spiritual lessons at any time during the day