{"id":1678,"date":"2017-10-13T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T02:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2017-12-28T02:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:31:14","slug":"home-schooling-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Home Schooling – Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we began to consider homeschooling our children, it was with the idea that we would do it for two or three years and then enroll them in a Christian school. We also agreed that since the burden of home schooling would fall on my wife, she would only do it as long as she could retain her sanity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a point in the beginning\u00a0 where my wife was home schooling two children and caring for two preschoolers at the same time.\u00a0 The younger two had no idea how important this schooling was to their older siblings, nor did they care.\u00a0 Their blissful ignorance of what was going on in the home only added to the challenge before my wife.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

My task in all of this was administration.\u00a0 I provided the funds for the textbooks, satellite feed, and supplies required to keep things in operation.\u00a0 I was called upon to be an enforcer and to help discipline.\u00a0 I was careful to require respect from the\u00a0 students toward their mother and teacher.\u00a0 They were taught that disrespect to her was considered to be disrespect to me.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The most important task that I had, however, was to listen to my wife on a daily basis.\u00a0 \u00a0This task, by the way, was an act of God for us because it did not come\u00a0to me naturally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me explain.\u00a0 Each day, when arriving home, I learned by the grace of God to sit down with my wife and listen to how the day went, including the problems or victories that came with it.\u00a0 I did not listen while reading the paper (I may have at first) or while messing with my cell phone (not sure we even had cell phones when we began) or while watching the news on TV.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I learned to listen to her, because all day long she had had no adult conversation.\u00a0 Listening to her assured her that she was not in this alone.\u00a0 Eventually, I learned that she did not need advice necessarily or quick solutions.\u00a0 What she needed and wanted from me was my unwavering support and encouragement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a husband and father, I learned some things about my wife and mother of our children through this process of home schooling that\u00a0I did not understand previously.\u00a0 I learned that she would literally waste herself to care for our family.\u00a0 I also learned that I could\u00a0 stand by and watch her do it; I could pursue my own agenda (so I wouldn’t have to watch her do it); or I could keep her from killing herself by participating in the care and raising of our children.\u00a0 <\/strong>By the way, she is still alive and she is still sane.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether or not you are homeschooling, every Christian husband should be watching out for his wife, particularly if you have little ones.\u00a0 Homeschooling only adds to the burden mentally, emotionally, physically\u00a0and spiritually.\u00a0 If you as a husband and father are not willing to partner with her in sharing this burden then you should probably not add homeschooling to her agenda.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the characteristics of a Spirit filled (controlled) believer (husband) is that he loves his wife as he loves his own body.\u00a0 You do the math.\u00a0 How do I love thee?\u00a0 Let me count the ways that I love my own body.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.\u00a0 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Ephesians 5:28&29<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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