If you missed it, here are the first three posts:
Homeschool Curriculum ~ Where to Begin
Now I want to discuss one of the two most common questions I think new (and maybe even not so new) homeschool moms have:
RC Sproul, Jr. has a great little quiz to answer this first question. It's the easiest test you'll ever take. This is a quote from his book, When You Rise Up, which I highly recommend:
"...wait until it is late at night. Then, very quietly, go from room to room in your house. Peek in carefully, and see if you find any sleeping children. Then be sure that these are your own children. If there are wee ones in your home during the wee hours, and if they belong to you, you are competent to homeschool. The true Expert on education is the very One who gave you these children."
Isn't that great!?
Now if that isn't enough and you still wonder how in the world you can teach them all they need to know, let me assuage your fears...YOU CAN'T. And neither can I. Victoria Botkin says,
"This is what it means to be an educated person:
Being able to teach yourself whatever you need to know."
So really if you can give your kids a love for learning about God and His world and show them how to learn things on their own, you've done your job.
Okay but you just want to teach them to read and how to add and multiply but don't even know if you can do that. Well you can. Here's the deal with the majority of curriculum...it tells you exactly what to say. People who have been teaching for years, decades, have put together curriculum that tells you just what they would say to their students.
Do you have to have a college degree to homeschool? Must you know how to do calculus or diagram a sentence? Nope! You don't even have to have a GED. Lots of people have already done the work and know how to teach all that fun stuff. You just use their wisdom and God's help and you'll all be just fine.
Monday I will answer a question that sounds a lot like the first:
Am I going to completely mess them up for life?
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