The Homeschool Minute ~ Todd Wilson

Sniff, sniff … smell that? It’s the smell of spring!! The snow has melted, the flowers are starting to push through the ground, and the light at the end of the homeschool tunnel is almost in view.

Your assignment? Enjoy spring with your children and call it homeschooling. We’ve forgotten some of the joys of homeschooling, such as the fun of spending a nice day outside together … looking, sniffing, and feeling one of the most wonderful times of the year.

It amazes me how complicated we’ve made homeschooling. The topic at hand about homeschooling different aged children at the same time hints at that. It’s almost like we’re discussing how to breathe or use a spoon. These things come naturally because they’re part of God’s design.

I believe God’s design for training our children was altered a long time ago when some group of unemployed, smart people (who needed jobs) convinced parents that they were more capable of teaching their children than they were. After time the “experts” weren’t satisfied with one-room school houses, because more people needed jobs, so they broke the children up into various age groups and classes. So that’s been the standard ever since, BUT that’s not the best way to learn.

Family is the best way and place to learn, no matter how many ages are learning at once. In homes, there are interruptions, urgent demands, and constant distractions like spring days, chocolate chips cookies in the oven, and spontaneous games of Candy Land. That is God’s design and the best way to learn and LIVE.

You get to do it every day and are so blessed to be able to teach your children at home, all of them at once.

Go have some fun and do school.

Be real,

Todd