What Liberals Get RIGHT About Homeschooling | Ep. 236
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- The Washington Post did an article on homeschooling last week. Even with as pro-homeschooling we are, they got some things right as far as some concerns to look out for when it comes to homeschooling your children. Today, we are going to discuss those concerns.
We are going to start off by saying that we don’t think public school should be an option for Christian parents. Our children should not be sitting in a godless environment all day long. If we send them to a godless society, we can't be surprised if they come back godless. We are really seeing that with our young people in the church. Regardless of whether that is homeschooling or sending them to a private Christian education, they need to be educated from a Christian worldview. That is the most important thing.
It’s fun to see how homeschooling has gotten picked up by the mainstream media because it’s such a thing now. The stats in this Washington Post article were saying that homeschooling has gone up by 51% over the past six school years. This is something that all of a sudden people are caring about a lot more.
Each home needs to take very seriously the education of our children because these are going to be the adults that are leading our society in a very short amount of time. We don’t know when the Lord is going to come back. We don’t know what God has in store for the next generations. We have to parent with a multi-generational mindset. We can do so much as believers if we have bigger goals for our children, regarding how they can be used by God in our society.
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As a single mother, I was committed to homeschooling my daughter, no matter what. I started out as a nanny & was able to bring my kiddo along and do school during the day, and am now able to work from home & homeschool at home! Yes, it can absolutely be done! 😊
This is so exciting to hear as a single mama myself! Thanks for the encouragement ❤ God bless you on your homeschooling journey!
May I ask what you do for work from home to be able to homeschool as a single mom? I recently became a single mom to three under four myself and am searching for avenues to be able to do the same.
@@hannahmccormick3630 well, I’m in a unique situation in that I’m disabled. I have a bladder and kidney issue since childhood. It’s painful and has its challenges but I’m able to be home so all along God knew best😭🙌🏼🕊️ I just need to lean into it the idea that I’m equipped. Praying for you to find a solution sister 🙏🏻 praying even if you have to work (which I may end up having to) you can make it work!
What about for single parents where the other parent don’t share same values ?
I’m a single mom too, homeschooling for five years now! God has provided as I know it’s His will for our family.
I am a former public school teacher and now I am a stay at home homeschool mom. I know 7 other former teacher/ homeschool moms. That should tell you everything you need to know. Caring educator/ parents (people who know the public school system from the inside) are making the choice to homeschool their own.
❤. I’m a teacher too & I want to be home soooo bad
Big facts, my husband is a teacher
Same, I used to teach 6th grade public school social studies and we will homeschool!
It is an insidious attitude to get into as a homeschool parent: “oh as long as they can read and write.” We should be schooling for excellence! Thank you. I needed to evaluate my attitude. I really struggle with focus and consistency as a person, and that bleeds into my homeschool. On top of that, I keep having kids LOL so there is ALWAYS some “distraction” in the form of noise or children needing something. I need to push through and work on priorities!
😂😂😂”I keep having kids” love it 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏼🙌🏼
My husbands cousin saw that i quit my career to stay home, raise and homeschool our children and insisted that they could not afford to do the same despite my insisting that they can. I prayed and prayed that they find a way... So far they are still working full time and their children are in child care BUT they are spending every evening teaching their children from the bible and additional "school" curriculum. Its a start! ❤
Oh my gosh Elisha’s brain block was hilarious lol I love that you guys don’t edit these moments out!
Haha. Yes, it was too funny to take out.
Yes, loved that! 😂😂 Gives a real sense of authenticity. Lol And really appreciate that he's not too embarrassed to show that part and let us have a bit of a laugh at his expense.
Same, so funny
I really appreciate your point in raising children with a multi-generational mindset. I was homeschooled, and my mother said when she was educating me, she was educating her grandchildren. I received an excellent education due to her diligence in that mindset. She also had us go on to get a GED so we would have a more official diploma should we need to go out in the workforce and/or pursue further education. I married young and have always been a stay at home wife and mother, so as of yet have not needed the official credentials, but who is to say what the future will hold. My thorough education has helped give me confidence that I can do the same for my children. Not that I never have concerns about my ability, but I tell myself that if my mom was able to do it, I can too. One of my sisters has never married and has a career, so it has also served her well. You never know what your children's future will hold, but a thorough education is a good starting point for whatever life has in store.
YES! Love this! Thank you!
This is by far my favorite podcast! It’s so educational and encouraging but also genuinely funny with your natural interactions. 😂❤🎉
You guys nailed this!! Such good wisdom!!! I was nodding my head so much throughout the video!!
I laughed so hard when Elisha couldn’t think of his point! You guys are a riot 😂😂😂
For me personally I am the check off all the boxes kind of homeschool mom and can get really frustrated when we are “falling behind” ( of course falling behind my ideal) and can be so school focused that we don’t have much fun or leeway. I see all the cutest crafts and parties that others do and think my kids are missing out and then I realize we do one art project per week and even have history projects we do once a month so we do have some fun 😂😂 I know I can be hard on myself, but I appreciate you calling homeschool moms to a higher standard and not just do the bare minimum which I hear a lot!!
I can’t remember if you did a podcast on this but, did you do one on the green flags and red flags of finding godly friendships for our kids? Also when godly people are scarce, how to teach them not to just choose any friends and lower their standards just to have companionship. We only have two children 15 ( boy) and 4(girl). We’re struggling to find friends that call themselves Christian’s but don’t read their bibles or raise their children biblically.
This is such a great episode. My wife and I love on one income so that we can make sure that my wife can stay at home. It means that we don't get to go on as many vacations, buy as many things, save as much money, BUT we will raise our child in the admonition of The Lord and ensure that they are poured into. We believe that our child is a child of God and we want to fill his cup of good grain and fill it all the way up so when he gets older and get bumped around by the world he is in he can get bumped and not loose all that good grain. He may loose some, but but will still be full.
Praise God for you all, and bless your family.
Fantastic work 🎉🎉🎉 thank you both
🙌 Katie! I agree with the whole "engage with the government as Christians, rather than skirt away from the government in the woods." Lol so well put!
Yes! We want Daniels!
interesting to listening too! Just discovered you guys and cant wait to hear more!
What an important episode for every Christian home to listen to. Thank you 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I think you changed the title? And I see the first title asking if we feel confident or educated enough to teach our kids at home. I always thought that was so funny, I was public schooled, and the majority of parents who don't feel confident in homeschooling, or wonder if they are smart enough, went to public school, so why would we want to send our kids to the place that made us not feel confident in educating our elementary school children? It's so ironic. I do feel confident in educating my children, I know they're learning more than most kids in public school being taught one on one. I'm actually learning so much teaching my kids too, the curriculums are really so easy to teach and understand, and when they get older, I might consider an online Christian school, and I'm confident they will be much better educated than if they were in public school. There's also the huge negative influences and social distractions of public schools that we don't have to worry about. Great conversation, thank you!
6 am! That’s awesome!! ❤️❤️❤️you two are amazing!
Ooo, 15 seconds in and SHOTS FIRED. I'm hooked and here to listen. 👂
You two are the most consistent uploaders on RUclips 😂 thanks for giving us all this good content to learn and grow from. ❤
I completely agree there needs to be a seriousness with which parents homeschool their children. And i love the fire that has be reignited with this conversation within me in schooling my own kiddos. However i do think it is really important to remember that God calls families differently. While I believe we are to school our children at home, I do know parents that have not been called to do the same.
I would like to also add that i know we are very blessed to live in a country 🇨🇦 where i can choose how we educate our children. Not all Christian families around the world live in this reality.
I love how you guys interact 😂 Thank you for the inspirational reminder of the importance of what we are doing as parent educators.
Such a great topic I don’t see addressed a lot! I’ve actually seen a lot of homeschoolers in my sphere not taking it seriously and I’ve encouraged/challenged them to treat it as a job and make it a priority.
After hearing from a mom who had her kids in the public school up until recently, I don't think it's hard to do better than the public school in my area academically. Also I know our school district is making it impossible for parents to be involved, which wasn't the case when I was in school, my mom volunteered in my class a lot at the beginning of my public school education, and now parents can't ride the bus with their student to feild trips or sporting events or eat lunch at the school with their child. I agree we shouldn't not care about academics, but as I've heard another online homeschool mom say we can't all be raising prodigies, my goal is just to keep my kids moving forward and learning how to learn.
I think yes as much as we can't all have prodigy children, we should not set them up not to become prodigy by being mediocre so that each child can reach their personal full potential prodigy or not.
@@MrsMugs I think people put too much pressure on homeschool parents to set their children up to be prodigies instead of just creating an environment where learning is fun. I didn't say homeschool parents shouldn't allow their children to reach their full potential, however everyone's funding and local resources are going to be so different that I hesitate even to say that. Again even the public school doesn't allow children to reach their full potential a lot of times. I just think this podcast is coming from people who don't know the public school system well and it's easy to feel discouraged hearing some of these things.
Do you have a Q&A podcast about how to choose a curriculum that fits your family. There is so much information out there and can be so confusing for new moms.
I became a super strong Christian while attending public school. If you do your job well at home, there's no reason your child cannot learn reading, writing, and math at school. In fact, I think I became a STRONGER Christian because I saw how poorly the other kids were turning out. I was proud of my faith and proud to share it.
It’s a naive and outdated thought that only reading and math are being taught in public school. I would argue neither of those things are taught anymore (my husband and I are both former public school teachers). Instead LGBTQ, Marxism and gender ideology are being pushed.
Agree. I think what matters is that we consult God in what will help our children know him most. If he answers the public school down the road then we need to be open to that. If we come in prayer with an answer already then that’s not really listening.
In the UK the government do check the standards of your homeschooling and you can be penalised/ social services involvement if it’s not adequate
I’ve known people that tried to homeschool but it didn’t work out for them. Some people just aren’t organized. It left them very frustrated
Crazy thankful for Christian families putting their children in public school! As someone who grew up in a non-Christian home and in the public school... One of the biggest reasons I know Jesus is because Christian friends would invite me to church with them and their family. My boys will go to public school And I will raise them to follow Jesus at the same time ❤ it can be done well and trusting Jesus is key rather than fearing the world.
Amen! ***Jesus saves, not schooling choices.*** We cannot be our children's "savior" by isolating them, we have to trust our huge and amazing God to do that work regardless of where our children go. Homeschooling can be so wonderful but fear based homeschool is dangerous if you move down this road of thinking it can control how your child's faith ends up. My "Christian" school (people who claimed Christianity but were really there to control their child's environment or due to money) was a lot more harmful for my faith than public school where people weren't pretending to be something they were not... and I met way more authentic Christians there!
@@SacredCuriosity 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I agree that fear based homeschooling is not right. However, knowingly sending your children into a pagan environment that is heavily pushing their agenda on your kids is unwise. Public school today is not the same as when we were kids. I'm so thankful that you met the Lord through friends at public school. We also cannot then say that because of that, our kids need to go in there and be the missionaries when they are needing to be taught and trained and discipled themselves. That's not the right mindset. We can't pretend that the public school having them for the majority of their lives during their school years is not going to affect them and change their worldview.
Praise God you had a friend at school to point you to the Lord. I have to ask....is school the ONLY place non-Christians will EVER meet Christians? Our homeschooled kids play with neighborhood kids almost every afternoon if they can. They are also in extra-curricular activities where they rub shoulders with kids who come from non-Christian backgrounds. School is not the only place kids socialize.
I think there is no right answer for everyone, but something my mom has always said is that our schools are bad enough. If we take all the Christian teachers and students out of them, were would they be then? I am thankful for my opportunity to go to public school and be able to share my faith with my classmates, even from a young age, and I am looking forward to being able to homeschool my own children as I feel called to do.
My husband is full-time home schooled and the home schooled kids are much, much much brighter then the kids in school
I'm not very far in but I wanted to comment to say, I agree with the accountability for homeschool parents. This year I plan to become a lot more intentional and invested in the education that my children are receiving. I am a first-generation homeschooler and devout Christian; so I would blame my lack of knowledge and my "entry-levelness" if you will on it being okay that I was just learning. God convicted me on the importance of my children wanting to learn and the quality of their learning. Also what they are witnessing in our daily environment, as far as structure and discipline. It's really important. I don't test but I am looking for ways to hold myself accountable and to make sure my kids are advancing properly in their studies. My children are still young and I do have a bit of grace on myself for my learning curve but I don't want to allow for my children to slack on in the name of laziness on my part.
I’m a public school teacher & I pray ALL day for them, but we can’t talk about the Bible! I caught one of the kids praying 🙏🏽 I was astounded 😮 Yaw is beautiful 😍 the way he works. Holy Spirit is in my class
The title got me clicking this video so fast 😂
Can you guys make a video on what a generational mind set when raising kids looks like in the day to day? :)
But also there are curriculums that can be purchased to enhance the education
Some parents don't have education themselves or economy to perhaps school at home
A lot of parents learn along side their children as well. I do understand there are some very high risk families with DV then the kids would benefit from going to school
If they would stick to reading writing and arithmetic. Like they are spoiled to and the parents would step up and be parents instead of letting the schools raise there kids things would change.
Supposed
BANG Katie just went there right off the bat 😂
We live in the paradox of living with the multi generational eternal perspective and live like today is our last day and Christ could return any moment. We have to keep both in view. Some of us live only in the moment and are driven by "the tyranny of the urgent" (that's a book title) and forget about eternity or the generations or Christ's return. We should have expectancy that keeps us putting oil in our lamps. I lost site of that during my busy child rearing, homeschool years. Don't put off your prayer and word life saying you don't have time
That's the foolish virgin mentality.
Additionally, we should give our children the best education our finances and abilities allow while also NOT buying into the temporal mindset of the worship of education. Going to college is such an obsession in the western world. I think we should think more outside the box in teaching our children to be very prayerful about their gifts and callings and not idolize a college education. Today it's a near 100k just to be indoctrinated in liberalism, party, go into debt, and get the piece of paper to make us and our parents proud. I was thinking about my girlfriend and their college educations. 3 only used their degrees for about 2 years only to marry and have children. Brother in law has a masters. Never used it. He was a little writing major and is a restaurant gm. Another friend got a journalism degree. Used it a couple years, then became a missionary. I've got another friend who used to be an education junky who is emphasizing missions with her kids and has sent several to ywam either for gap year or as a life. I think that is super admirable!
End times happened in 70 AD ☺️ once I learned this truth, the fear has gone about going through persecution and instead I too want to raise influencers for the truth!!
What do you guys think about Christian private schools? I don’t think I would be a good enough teacher to my child which is why I am thinking about a Christian private school. I’d love to hear your thoughts Katie and Elisha!
I know I’m not who you’re asking, but I went to Christian private schools for the majority of my education. I switched to public schools in the middle of 7th grade. I loved it and credit my positive public school experience with my solid foundation of Christian education. I sent my kids to private school up until this year. Our experience with that was wonderful and we keep in touch with the friends we’ve made there. The primary reason for pulling them was because of the pandemic being in my older children’s preschool-1st grade years, they were on par with their peers, but everyone was behind grade level. Since starting homeschooling their reading fluency and comprehension have improved significantly, so have their math skills, which were always very strong.
I don’t foresee another pandemic, but keep in mind interruptions to their learning can affect them negatively, so supplement as best you can. I was basically treading water that whole year with a new baby and figuring out how to do school online, plus added postpartum anxiety. Hopefully if it does happen again you’ll be better prepared than I was.
Anyway, private schools are an incredible option if you have the resources and inclination to send your kids there, based on my personal experience.
@@Ella_Vande thank you so much for your response . I am planning on sending my daughter to a Christian private school.
I love this episode and am very proud of Katie’s boldness on sharing a controversial opinion! I agree with her fully!
That's such a good point that we need to stop parenting like it's the end of the world. You should make that clip into a reel
I absolutely agree! They should never be in public school. Voddie is on point with that for sure!
27 minutes mark!
You have to make sure they are able to get jobs
Homeschoolers are making jobs 😂
How do employers value home-schooling
I am curious to understand more about the perspective that the culture/school system is pagan. Paganism is about earth/feminine based spirituality. I don’t see that represented at all, that would be FAR better than what is dominant. I see it as tyrannical, narcissistic and oppressive at best, Luciferian and Satanic at worst.
Really love the mindset shift to multi generational, culture shifting homeschooling!
I was going to mention this! I think people often associate paganism with Satanism and they are two very different things. Many pagans converted after hearing the gospel. Satanist outright reject the Gospel. I wouldn't want my children in either environment but I think it's important to distinguish the difference.
Elijah wearing a ju-jitsu hoodie and lookin red and tired. Is he taking steroids? 😜 might just be the morning tiredness but my brother looked the same using testosterone.
Can’t even write a sentence 😢 so sad
It's strange that you guys are saying what public school is like. I went to public schools in a state with the 2nd highest scores in the nation. A MAJORITY of my teachers were Christians. There was never some weird agenda taught. I remember debating abortion in high school health, and I was encouraged to do so. I would just be wary to develop a picture of what all public schools look like... Many run very well and their scores and student success shows that (my elementary school best friends have PhDs, MBAs, and Masters... nothing lower than that. And therefore they are able to provide for their families.) I do wonder if homeschoolers are even wanting their children to get higher education? They seem to have a lot of conspiracy theories about colleges rather than being confident in their children and young adults to go out and be lights in the world.