There is a wedding going on this weekend. My firstborn son will marry his sweetheart. What I see when I look close enough is my little boy who loved playing in the mud and raising caterpillars and making awesome things with his hands. He struggled to learn to read, but when he finally got it, there was no getting his nose out of a book. He was very focused on whatever project he was doing at the time, and he had plenty of time to go wherever his interests took him. He eventually ended up at a university doing what he loves to do. And now, he is getting married. Moms, hang on for the ride. Hold your boys’ hands while they still let you (even if it is all the way through high school!)
So what about high school? It’s not really all that scary. The only change I felt I had to make in his schooling during high school was to keep better records and produce a transcript. I never was good at record keeping, but Lee Binz really helped me feel very comfortable with the task. Janice Campbell also made transcripts understandable.
Since graduating my three oldest, I can tell you that high school is just like all the other years–you pray, you do your research, you pray some more. You check with other homeschoolers, you read books and websites, you go with your child’s interests and work his/her studies around that, you start putting names of subjects down on a transcript. You still encourage them and exhort them in the Word of God.
Homeschooling through high school might be new and a bit different, but that is what homeschooling was to you in the beginning. And you persevered through and were glad you did. Persevere through high school too. There is something powerful about homeschooling all the way through.We are here to encourage you to persevere.
Oh, and here is helpful advice for those who have teens who want to go to public school. You can become their guidance counselor and help them through that time.
Are there outside pressures or people telling you to stop homeschooling during high school? When do we stop listening to the call of God for our children and our family–when society says we should? When we feel inadequate? We will always feel inadequate. That feeling is a blessing in disguise because we were meant to lean on the LORD for His wisdom.
The Lord is on your side. He is the author and finisher of your life and your homeschool and He will be with you through to the end of the race … and you’ll watch your child walk down the wedding aisle soon enough. I already have my handkerchief picked out for the occasion.
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear…” Psalm 118:6
~Deborah
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