There does come a day when you actually finish home schooling your children. I have reached that day this year with our daughter’s graduation from high school. As I work my way through the empty ‘school desk’ syndrome and begin to look at myself anew and consider my possibilities for the future, I can’t help but reflect back on what I found most important in our experience.There were many days when home schooling was a test of endurance, patience and faith, and other days when I turned it into race and almost burned out, but mostly I managed to keep the pace even, trying not to pass up too many rest stops. I had to completely remake our home life. I learned the Faith, and also received the Catholic education I was never given – both of these gifts were worth the work of home schooling and I doubt that they would have happened without it. Click here to read more
We’ve never had a thread on the topic of home-schooling before, so for those who are concerned about the state of a Catholic Education System that lets heretics like laisized priest, Professor Thomas Groome loose to malform the teachers, home-education is an option you may wish to consider. As you will see from the above article, however, it is not at all plain sailing, so the question for discussion has to be – is it worth the hassle?
