Homeschooling as Discipleship

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I saw this article on a friend’s blog and asked her if I could share it with you. Belinda and I were actually pen pals years back. We did a book study together long distance. She lives in Australia and my family was in Germany at the time. I would love for you to catch the vision that homeschooling is a lot more than just getting the schoolwork done each day.

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.

 

A discipleship approach to homeschool creates a whole-life focus where we teach, train, guide and help our kids to grow in every aspect of their life.

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New September Study

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I have opened the link to the latest September Study. This year’s theme is Abiding. The study is 30 days going through John 14 and 15. I have gone through it with my family. I usually recommend middle school and up for independent learners and to do it together if you want to use it with younger students.

Abiding

September Studies

September Studies are month-long themed Bible studies. You can find the past ones at the link above. You can use them on My EP if you like. On the Settings page, you’ll find it in the Bible course block toward the very end of the list. You can get an addition Bible block from the Extras page if you need it. Parents, feel free to make yourself a student block and use any of our Bible studies or something like Hebrew.

Site Maintenance

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Around the 4th of July is typically when we do any bigger changes on the site. In response to the trouble we had with one of our servers a few weeks ago, we are moving our store, placement test, and Brain Blast (vocabulary and spelling activities) to a new server. That will come with some temporary outages hopefully all just over the weekend and you’ll never notice! For some of you, it may take longer for cache things to clear out and let through the new info. If you are having trouble on Monday accessing those things, you could try resetting your router (turn it off and on).

This week there will be a couple of other changes. I’ll be deleting off the site a couple of our old courses that no one should be using. A couple of courses are moving from the main settings page to the “extras” page as they have been replaced and are being phased out. People using those courses have had a note on their course about that. You’ll be able to continue those if you are still using them, but no one should be starting with those courses. They will be labeled OLD.

EP a Financially Smart Move :)

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I was contacted by someone working for badcredit.org. They were writing an article on Easy Peasy. EP has been mentioned in news articles outside the homeschool universe before, but this is the first time that I know of that an article has been dedicated to EP. I thought it was neat that EP is going out to a new audience. You can do a favor and just click on the link to help boost its searchability to help people find the article.

I had a lovely conversation with my interviewer for the article. I learned he grew up going to Catholic school and was interested in the idea of a cheaper alternative for religious education. Part of the conversation made it into the article, which was written by another man than the one I talked to. It’s a different article than I would have written, but it’s interesting to me what was interesting to them, what was pulled out and included.

Easy Peasy article on BadCredit.org

Great Is the Lord and Greatly to Be Praised

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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. Psalm 145:3-4

How are you declaring the works of the Lord to the next generation? Do your children know your testimony? Do they know how the Lord has changed your life? Do they know how the Lord has answered your prayers? Yes, read the Bible stories to your children. Hey, act them out. Draw pictures. Make a puppet show. I’ve been having my kids each tell a Bible story after dinner as way to work on Scripture memory, though we don’t worry about getting it exactly right. They are stories of the works of the Lord, of His mighty acts, of His unsearchable greatness.

But our family also has a miracle wall (pictured above). We’ve posted notes and mementos that mark miracles we’ve experienced and awesome answers to prayers. They range from our daughter’s free art lessons, to healings, to provisions of money, to protection from lice, and even an evaluator to sign our homeschool paperwork! Our kids know how the Lord has helped us along the way. They know the Lord delivered me from all things streaming and how much I love God’s word. They see (or hear) me singing (and maybe a little dancing) and clapping the tambourine most every night. 🙂

Declare the mighty acts of the Lord! Praise God! Let your children know how great our great God is!