Listen to her wisdom.
We would call our homeschool philosophy a discipleship approach – meaning we focus on teaching, training, guiding and helping our kids in their whole life – not just academics. Day to day though, you will find us using many of the learning tools found in a variety of homeschool methods – therefore I would also call myself eclectic.
What is Discipleship?
It is a lifestyle of mentoring my children in the real activities that happen in life. It is a lifestyle of having my children along side me in every situation – in order to glean wisdom, character, knowledge and skills.
I am challenged by the concept to disciple my children rather than to just educate my children. When I think in terms of “educate” I automatically think of academic areas but in my heart, I know the relational, character and life skill are so much of what I want for my children.
Therefore our Discipleship covers the areas of:
- Spiritual
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Plus the
- Moral
- Practical areas of life
We are training the whole child.
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Oh wow, your friend Belinda has caught the essence of homeschooling perfectly. It’s exactly that for us…discipline future generations. Thank you for sharing this. Very encouraging!
❤️Reading this was like reading a transcript of my heart’s desire for my own family’s education at home.