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Lacking Confidence? Who Me?

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

March 5, 2008 |

I am so behind with posting.  We have had an amazingly busy week, ending this afternoon with the birth of baby goats, the first of the season.  I say ending…perhaps not.. I had hoped that things would settle down (I say that so much, don;t I?) but our tenant called and left a message saying she had an emergency at the house…and we can’t get ahold of her to find out what.

baby goat

You can read about the goats, if you are interested, here 

I am in one of those seasons where school seems to get lost in the shuffle.  I have considered putting hte kids in school..but then something happens like today and I am sure that I am doing hte right thing by having them home.  How can I continue to have so many doubts after so many years homeschooling? I just don’t understand it.

For example..today Shiloh was the one that heard Dassah kidding.  She yelled to me, grabbed a couple of towels and headed out.  By the time I got theere she was kneeling in birth gunk, helping to deliver the second kid.  She is 12.

O.k..maybe delivering goat kids is not academic, maybe it is.  But we, as homeschoolers, need to start looking att he strengths of what we are instilling in our children rather than the weaknesses.  School situations have weaknesses-lots of them.  Why are the weaknesses of our educational processes, or systems, so much “worse” than a school?

Because we think it reflects directly on us if  our child struggles with algebra or multiplication..or doesn’t know what year Columbus sailed the ocean blue.  Even after all these years we are still trying to prove we are as good as they are.  Or at least some of us are.

I don’t know how to build confidence, as I said, I have been at this a lot of years and still struggle, but I know that I need to be better about trusting what my family is being led to do.

I read this post at Handmade Homeschool, and I really understood what she was saying.  There is this cool point that you realize your kids are finally getting it but your response is not what you thought it would be.   Quiet satisfaction is much more permanent that a few moments of doing the dance of joy…altho there is something to be said for those moments too!


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