By Anne Gebhart Have a fun history class while teaching your children about some modern day history that directly impacts their lives! There’s nothing like a little role-playing to help our students understand what the home schooling pioneers went through and what a special privilege it is to home school in Texas. ? Pretend you…
Veteran Home Schoolers
“For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” (2 Corinthians 10:1) After homeschooling and graduating two sons, I can look back to a tale of two sons: “It was the best of…
When the end of May rolls around, home schooling parents and students alike will be looking forward to the lazy, hazy days of summer. Parks, swimming pools, chilly movie theaters and more will be calling. Many parents will take off the instructor hat to go into full-fledged parent mode—planning the family vacation, camping trip or…
“Home schoolers are prideful and arrogant. They treat the rest of us like there is something wrong with us.” Ouch! I overheard this conversation at a church function a few years ago, and it broke my heart. After all, we are supposed to be the Body of Christ, walking in unity with one another and…
The Texas Education Code requires home schools to teach the following subjects: reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics, and a course in good citizenship. There were days when that was all I could teach, having begun my home schooling career in 1993 newly pregnant and teaching a first grader, kindergartener, a three-year-old, and an eighteen-month-old. There are days…
