{"id":295,"date":"2008-03-30T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-and-my-house.org\/blog-led\/2008\/03\/30\/looking-back\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:02:58","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m am joining Dana’s Home Education Week<\/a> – in retrospect. This has been a week with very little online time, and so I’ll just take the time I have now, and backpost to follow the flow.<\/p>\n

Dana asks:<\/p>\n

Share your personal history\u00a0 \u2026 before you were a home educator. What was life like? Think about things you miss and things you and your family have gained.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure there was life before home education, but there is little to remember except that we had to get up early, and I missed them while they were gone. That was a LONG time ago. We’ve been home educating since 1987.<\/p>\n

Our oldest 2 went from being in our home up to age 5, to the typical government education institution for a few years. During that time we had 2 more dc, who were home with me. We also became Christians at that time, and began researching home ed soon after. It was just coming into anyone’s knowledge then. I read the 2 or 3 books available on it, and knew no one personally who was doing it. But, within 2 years of becoming Christians, we began home educating. It’s one of the very best decisions we’ve EVER made.<\/p>\n

BTW, although I’d only heard vaguely of home schooling and of some family 75 miles away doing it, when our first was about 1.5 and someone asked when I was going to wean her, I replied that if she wasn’t weaned by kindergarten I’d have to home school her. — She did wean, way before 5, and I did send her to ps, but brought her home a few years later.<\/p>\n

I probably worked on more craft and sewing projects back then. Now I work on lesson plans. And I obviously read different things back then. I took a couple college classes I was interested in, got my interior design certification, personal color certification (for make up and wardrobe), and when God saved me, I began lifelong dedicated Bible study. I was already designing crafts and selling them, and teaching craft classes, and teaching nutrition classes.<\/p>\n

But I wouldn’t say I “miss” anything. I still work on those things as time allows, and I LOVE the studying I do now, for educating my own children – since it is just as extension of my Bible Study, and for teaching other parents how to home educate in Freedom & Simplicity\u2122 through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship\u2122.<\/p>\n

I believed we have gained everything! I wouldn’t send my dc out of the home that way again. During our home education years, we have gone from 4 children to 10. Those oldest 4 are now grown and in their own homes. So life has changed, because our family has changed, but for the last 21 years, home education has been the constant – a God guided life of family discipleship.<\/p>\n

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I’m am joining Dana’s Home Education Week – in retrospect. This has been a week with very little online time, and so I’ll just take the time I have now, and backpost to follow the flow. Dana asks: Share your personal history\u00a0 \u2026 before you were a home educator. What \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}