Chaos Chronicles

And they feel the need to mention this again the next day… CBS on Homeschool Nightmares..I mean come one.. In the begining of the article, they mention the 850,000 estimated homeschooled children in the US, but then they mention the “dozens” of child abuse cases that were of kids who were homeschooled.. hmm.. Hundereds of thousands.. “dozens”.. Every aspect of life has some sort of subgroup of people who are just BAD, no matter who or what the main group is about.

I can not believe a news company would actually air this! Wait.. yes i can. CBS sucks

Well, last night I went to get Paul from one of his friends house. When I got there the mom, Becky, said “Paul said you homeschool him.” I said “yes, but this year he is going to school because he wanted to try it.” she replied with “He is a very good reader”. Hehe Visions of Paul reading and proudly proclaiming I’m homeschooled! ran through my mind. Ahh the rewards of homeschooling!

The next school year is comming up soon. I’m not sure what I want to do yet. Should I continue homeschooling? Should I just send him to school? I don’t know! I want to homeschool him, but I’m not sure if that is what God wants me to do..I just wish He would tell me. Paul says he wants to continue homeschool and he doesn’t want to go to regular school. I know it’s not all about not wanting to leave home because before I started homeschooling, he was so excited at the thought of going to school and being able to ride the buses and stuff like that.. He was actually a little upset that he didn’t get to ride the big yellow bus to school. Now he doesn’t want that stuff. He loves learning at home and I love teaching him. Some one said to me that I was wasting my life away by homeschooling. I totally don’t agree with that. I am making sure my son is being raised as a good christian boy by homeschooling him. God wants us to train our children in the ways they should go, not let someone who can’t teach about God do it! I could send him to private school.. but that costs a lot of money and I still wouldn’t know what he was learning. It’s hard because I don’t want to send him to an Adventist school because I don’t agree with all their teachings.. I don’t want to send him to other religions either because I do believe we should be keeping the Saturday Sabbath, and they don’t. There are just too many issue’s that I don’t want Paul to get confused on. I want him to learn one thing. When he gets older he will be taught to take what he is learning and go to the ultimate source for the answers…which of course is the Bible. If he is getting 3 different things being thrown at him now, how will he know what is right.. who will he listen to…I want him to know what Ben and I Believe is right, and then he can form his own opinion later.. I don’t want him to be learning things I think are wrong becase that will contradict our homelife. I guess I’m answering my question right now about what to do for school. I have to homeschool again. It’s such a blessing to be working with a child who is very smart. Paul can read books on his own! He is starting to love to read a book by Dr. Seuss called The Bug Who Went Ka-Chooo! It’s cute. There are some big words in there too. I was surprised he only had trouble with a few of them. But after reading through it once, he doesn’t need help to make out the difficult words anymore. I’m going to start to keep a list of the books he’s read himself on his website. I’ll post the link later, once I get it up. I’m glad I wrote this tonight.. It’s helped me think. I’d love to hear from more homeschooling moms! Tell me what you think about homeschooling.. Am I making the right decisions? Leave me a comment!