What Advice Do You Have For A Newbie? Part 7: Life Learning

Part 7: “Life” learning is just as important if not more than academic learning.

Your children are entrusted to you to help form their character.

Teaching them to communicate, to be kind, to cook and clean, to budget their money, and to serve others is just as (if not more) important than learning algebra.

I have permission to share the following so don’t worry.

We decided to home educate all our children by January of 2007. We filled out the forms at the school office that said we were not re-enrolling them.

It was with fear and trembling but we did it.

Well in October of 2007, our eldest daughter started menstruating. I was able to walk her through a pivotal part of her journey into womanhood in the care and comfort of our home.

I cannot imagine sending her to school with her mind and heart full of questions like, “Is it normal to be tired?” “My tummy hurts, is that okay?” “Should there be this much flow?” I had the honor of literally holding her hand into this new season of her life. We would have both missed out if most of her “learning” had taken place in a school bathroom. Our daughter was the first one of her friends to “start."

Although she was young, she had more maturity about the whole process than women years older than her. I can talk about this because her attitude is, “This is part of life.”
She isn’t embarrassed about it at all.