Slow Schooling Chapter Seven
Equipping and Caring for the Teacher
Feb. 19, 2007
3:10 PM
A Simple Life
It is exasperating, excruciating, exhausting work to be a mother. But all things considered, it really is a simple life: love God, love your husband, love your children, keep the home. This is a life full enough, and anything else looms to threaten and steal precious emotional, mental, and physical strength from the limited time we really have to live. Someday, perhaps, my great-great-grand-daughter will wipe her brow, put the children to nap, and wonder about me, about how I “did it”. I will tell her, “not as well as I wanted, nor as much as I had hoped, but Jesus walked with me through it all, and that was more than enough.”
At this point, even with a decision and a commitment to home educate, the reality of such an endeavor sets in: who will do it? Simply asking the question, however, reveals the starting point: the starting point that says, “Children will not learn without an educator.” Th…