In this episode, Beth Moore talks about the benefits of homeschooling and the challenges that come with it. She shares her own personal story of how she and her husband adopted their first homechooling family and how it has shaped their family life.
00:00:00.000If I can teach a child to develop a passion for learning, show them how to ask really solid questions, to equip them with researching skills, then no matter what they're faced with, whether it's a political system that we're facing in our country,
00:00:22.060whether it's figuring out if they want to buy a Toyota or a Prius, whatever it is, they know how to ask strong questions, they know how to do their homework, they know how to develop a foundation for what it is they believe and why they believe it.
00:00:41.820And I know that the studies show us that Christian kids who leave home and go away to university, the numbers are staggering of the children who also walk away from the church because the foundation of being able to ask questions and identify why do I believe what I believe, how do I know I can trust it, we didn't do that as well as we needed to in a lot of cases.
00:01:07.580And so our children sort of get lost in the shuffle and some of them come back because God is faithful and he promises that he won't walk away, he's waiting with open arms.
00:01:21.560But I know that my older children have said to me that when they were in university, they faced some of those challenges and it was time for them to ask those questions.
00:01:41.100So the journey of homeschooling, I would say, is far richer than reading, writing, and arithmetic, but we have the freedom there to delve into those other issues that are so important for the strength of a godly family.
00:01:58.180And when we are talking about some of the issues in the public school classrooms right now that are the hot topics that are the motivation for coming together like this in this forum, we're very concerned about the information that's being presented.
00:02:13.720So as homeschoolers, we have the freedom, the privilege, the right, and the obligation in our homeschool to teach our children discernment so that when they're faced with these things, they're able to say, this is not where I'm supposed to be.
00:02:33.640Now, how you get there, I could talk for a long time about different models of education.
00:02:40.780And that's probably a conversation for another night, because everybody's, everybody's different, everybody's homeschool is going to look different.
00:02:49.720And the most discouraging thing you can do with a homeschool is say, well, my kid isn't as smart as Heather's kid, or Heather's kid is going to make more money than my kid.
00:03:00.080And, and that's irrelevant, because Heather's, Heather's kid is learning something different than what my kid is learning.
00:03:07.860And her kid is maybe gifted in a different way, and that's okay.
00:03:12.080And maybe Heather is working two part time jobs, because she's a single mom, or maybe I'm like, Martha Stewart, and everything I do has frosting and sparkles on it.
00:03:27.580And that's okay, and a little bit true.
00:03:31.220But we have to be able to give families the freedom and, and conversely, the support to find the thing that's really going to motivate the family unit to learn together.
00:03:46.660But as we learn together, we also develop relationship.
00:03:51.580And this whole relationship part is huge, because who do you trust?
00:03:57.580Do you trust a stranger walking down the street?
00:04:00.420Or do you trust the person that you have the most intimate relationship with?
00:04:07.500And the more we invest in our family, the richer the relationship, the deeper the trust, the, the like mindedness continues to grow, we're able to talk openly, and we might not always agree, but we're safe to have the discussion.
00:04:24.520And these are some of the things that we found that homeschooling has been magnificent for in terms of growing our family and giving our children opportunities to branch out.
00:04:38.960So I have five children, all five totally different personalities, the one thing that they have in common is service.
00:04:49.040Every single one of them has pursued a career in serving other people.
00:04:54.920They're also having those two who can see kind of houses in talking to them.