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Category: Home Life
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Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Proverbs 20:11
The Best-Laid Plans…
…don’t always turn out to be the best unit studies. The topic for my 3rd grader’s unit study this month was trees & leaves. I collected stacks of library books and filled a 3 prong folder with interesting information and activities. We were going to have a good time! Although we did collect leaves and acorns, and set up two science experiments – the unit study was a dud. We both just couldn’t get into it.
You know what? In 11 years of homeschooling, this is not the first time this has happened. Nor will it be the last. Not every lesson I plan is going to result in academic fireworks. When I realized that his interest was flagging, I didn’t push the subject, I just let it go. Why force an 8yo boy to learn about trees? Because it’s written in ink on my plan book? Nah, it’s not that serious. Really, it isn’t. I’m quite sure the topic will come up again in the future. There’s so much in the world to learn about, why drag our heels in simple and compound leaves?
New homeschooling parents, I share this especially because I want you to know it is okay to fail sometimes. To have lessons that don’t work out. You are not a lousy homeschooling parent and the world will not collapse. It is really is okay. So we didn’t learn as much about tree rings as I had planned, BUT we did discover a few pecans on our tree that the squirrels missed, and which oak in our yard has the largest acorns. Best of all, we learned that time spent nature together is never wasted.
Motivation Monday
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Motivation Monday {SOP Quote}
“Children are committed to their parents as a precious trust, which God will one day require at their hands. We should give to their training more time, more care, and more prayer.”
The Review and Herald – June 13, 1882
Motivation Monday {SOP Quote}
“Parents, do you ask what your work is? It is to take up your home responsibilities, doing the best you can, and seeking daily, hourly, to set before your children an example worthy of imitation…. Let your lessons be such as will bring joy and happiness into their lives, and will lead them to desire the service of Christ. Teach them to use their God-given powers in His service. Thus they will be following the example of the child Jesus”
The Signs of the Times, November 14, 1911
A Lesson In Making The Bed
I make my bed every morning. No big deal. Takes me less than two minutes to do it correctly. (I timed myself once!) But today, I did not want to do it. I don’t know why. I just threw the blankets across the bed haphazardly and began to walk away…
Until I remembered the three young lives I’m responsible for today. And the prayer from morning worship about being a witness for Christ in all our words and actions. And the expectation that my children to do their best at their morning chores the first time. I remembered my first work. It took less than two minutes for me to feel 1000% better about my day.
“Parents, do you ask what your work is? It is to take up your home responsibilities, doing the best you can, and seeking daily, hourly, to set before your children an example worthy of imitation. God’s purpose for your children is that they shall be sanctified through the truth, and to reach this condition, all the help that you and heavenly agencies can supply will be needed. “ The Signs of the Times – Nov. 14, 1911
The Adventist Home Educator 