“What about socialization?” “You can’t shelter them forever!” “How will they live in the ‘real’ world?” These are the daunting voices that, like clockwork, invariably speak up at the start of each new home school year. It is like the rat-a-tat-tat of a loaded weapon that is being fired squarely on your convictions. Each year…
Archives for Dawn Irons
Every parent has the silent dream that their children will be more successful than they have been. We want to pass that baton to the younger generation, and we pray fervently that they will run farther and harder than we did though we did our very best. I remember one Vacation Bible School when my class…
After five years of homeschooling, I had several friends look at me with stars in their eyes as they considered their first year of home education. I knew if I did not shatter the illusion quickly, I would do them a greater disservice by allowing them to believe I was a mom who truly “had…
It appears the more things change, the more they stay the same. Four years ago I graduated from a Christian college with a degree in social work. I did a one-year internship with Child Protective Services (CPS) and Family Outreach of America in Bell County. It was during this time that I became very upset…
