Watch this video!
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/07/this-is-what-happens-when-a-kid-leaves-traditional-education/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h11u3vtcpaY
Now here is a smart young man! I love his approach to life.
I still wonder sometimes if Homeschooling was the right choice for us but I have been reminded so many times this year that it was in fact the right choice for us! Sometimes I think that sending them to school would be the easy way out. It's not easy and it's not always fun being with them 24/7 ... it takes discipline, patients, time and lots of energy and all of those things test me daily. The best part about it for me though, is that we can be flexible. I try to look at homeschooling as a lifestyle... not a learning from 8-2 pm each day. We get our book work done and then we continue to learn throughout the day, playing games, nature walks, animal science, building, field trips, etc.
I love how this boy talks about nature. My children are following in their Father's footsteps it seems. They LOVE the outdoors. Sometimes my son says to people "I hate school!!" I'm like wow... way to show people how fun homeschooling is! Truth of the matter though is that he just LOVE'S being outside! Just like his Dad. I've realized that if he was in school.. he would get VERY little outside time and he would probably hate it even more. If that is in his heart and soul... why on earth would I want to take that away from him! He reminds me a lot of Sean. It's amazing to me how smart my husband is and how looking back, he tells me he hated school! Colton does it and he does it well, but he doesn't enjoy it. I've realized that, that is OK. He doesn't have to enjoy every bit of it as long as he gets it's done and he's learning. As he matures he seems to show me what he enjoys about it. It also seems that the less I push him to read, the more he enjoys reading! He recently started picking up Magazines and reading on his own time. This is one of the areas where I meant we could be flexible. I can pick, or he can pick whatever he wants to read! It doesn't have to be the book from his grade level. I also like being able to go on trips and just taking work sheets with us. I don't have to pull him out of class. Also, if we want to take extra days off for field trips.. or if Sean wants to take them on a hike.... I feel confident that they are learning the whole entire time! My kids ask Sean so many scientific questions about everything in and out of this world that I KNOW it's a better experience than they would get in most classrooms. I mean 'com, the ratio is usually 1:1 or at most 1:3. My children interact with a lot of adults.. some may thing TOO much... but they also get plenty of time with their homeschool friends and church friends. I feel they are learning to interact with all age levels. Colton, Carley and Stetson do have their moments of course but most of the time, they do everything together. I can hardly separate the three sometimes cause they love each other so much!
Anyway. I love'd this boy's outlook on life and I wanted to share it. I will be ecstatic If my kids grow up to be happy and Love God and Love people. I aim to teach them that we are not perfect nor will we ever be! Jesus love's them unconditionally. I don't want them growing up thinking they are never good enough or that they have to be or do what society says they need to be or do! All that matters is that they learn to Love and they learn to be happy and content with the simple things in life.
Deuteronomy 6:7 - And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
