Cultivate Children to Their Fullness: A Homeschooling Journey

Psalm 115:14: May the Lord cause you to flourish, both you and your children.

I always hesitate to write about homeschooling simply because our family is very much still a work in progress. Yet because of this Covid-19 pandemic, there’s a significant influx of new homeschooling families, and people all around asked me about homeschooling.

So I am compelled to distill my 11 years of homeschooling experience and try to answer these questions: Why are we homeschooling? What are the benefits and the challenges? What have I learned from homeschooling?

Never had I imagine that homeschooling would be my major life work. It has been an unexpectedly challenging and rewarding work like all worthwhile endeavors should be. I hope this article can do justice to the emotional rollercoaster our family is riding every day, to our feats and foibles, and to the wisdom we have gained. 

This article has seven sections: The Purpose of Education, the Homeschooling Landscape, the Benefits of Homeschooling, the Challenges of Homeschooling, Hesitations to Homeschool, the Purpose of Homeschooling: Cultivate and Grow, and a Call to Homeschool?

The Purpose of Education

I always assumed the purpose of education is to prepare the children to enter the workforce. Eventually, they need to engage the world and be functional adults who contribute to society.

That was the reason we had our modern concept of school during the first Industrial Revolution in the 17^th-18^thcentury. The sprouting new factories needed workers and managers, people who could do analytical scientific work and were equipped with academic skills, like reading, writing and arithmetic. This is why modern schools today are leaning towards those subjects, while liberal art subjects like literature and philosophy are deemed less practical.

Before the Industrial Revolution, education was reserved more for the nobles and the wealthy who could afford private tutors or governesses to teach subjects such as humanities, classics, music, painting, Latin and other foreign languages (remember a scene in the movie Little Women where Laurie was studying with his private tutor in his home library). The rest of the population had to manage and use their time for survival and food production. Peasant children learned practical skills by apprenticeships as they followed adults to work.

Yet, a more philosophical definition of education drew my attention. Education is the formation of the soul, the orientation of desire, and not just about gathering information. Borrowing another definition from Prof. Christopher Perrin, an expert in Classical Education: Education is mental training, that is the drawing out and unfolding of a soul, a soul that is unique, that has not had or will have not its like in all the ages, for God does not repeat himself.

So if education is mostly about the soul (which comprises the intellectual mind, the will, the emotional and the spiritual), and a unique soul at that, then a tailored customized education by a teacher who has knowledge and understanding of the workings of human souls is the perfect solution. 

But our social construct is not made to function like that. One tutor educating only one or a few children is just too expensive, and our whole economic productivity could be impaired. So to be efficient, we need to do specializations. Thus, teachers teach in schools, and parents work in the marketplace. 

A tailored and customized teaching for each special soul can’t be accessible for all, only those with resources who can afford it. If we need to educate the whole population, the modern school system is quite effective and efficient in keeping the world running and preparing the majority of people to enter the workplace. But… to cultivate and nurture each child’s soul to the fullest with the modern school system, as you can imagine, becomes very difficult.

One primary driver for our family’s decision to homeschool is to teach spiritual and character foundations to our daughters when they are young. We see this as the golden period because the children are still very trusting to parental authority, impressionable, and their hearts are more open. Homeschooling affords us more time and flexibility to share our worldviews and beliefs with our children, things that are important and dear to our hearts.

We want our children to know God through their daily life and habits and understand how God has planned and ordered things in His creations. We want them to know themselves, the unique and precious way God made them. We want them to learn to bless others with skills that are impactful, contributive and redemptive.

Character and skill training is a fundamental practice in our homeschooling, aside from academics. Daily household chores teach diligence and responsibility. Volunteer works train not only practical skills but also perseverance and serving attitude. We also try to provide time and opportunities for passion projects in line with their talents and interests to facilitate the calling God instills in them. We encourage them always to serve, give their best and bring values in whatever they do as a form of loving God and others.

As parents and followers of Christ, are we fully committed such that our definition of “educational success” subscribes to God’s definition and God’s KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are also our KPIs? Looking at our family’s KPIs and situation, we thought that homeschooling our children at least until elementary grade level was a wise decision. Even though we haven’t achieved everything we hoped for yet, I still believe our decision to homeschool was right for our family’s calling as a whole.

Homeschooling is an expensive endeavor. It requires a dedicated and capable tutor to design and oversee the educational experience for each child. In traditional homeschooling, the parents are usually the teachers of their children. Some families are willing to expend all the time and energy required for their children’s education. For others, they simply cannot invest the time and energy needed to homeschool in light of their other responsibilities. Your choice will depend on God’s calling for you and your family.

As long as we, the parents, are faithful in following God’s callings and missions in our lives, He will fill whatever is lacking in our child’s education, and He will fulfill our children’s purposes in their lifetimes.

The Homeschooling Landscape

There are as many varieties of homeschooling as the number of families with their own unique dynamics. That is why when the word “homeschooling” comes up, people conjure different images in their minds. 

Let me share with you this illustration to describe the contours in the homeschooling landscape. If there is a long line of homeschooling spectrum: on one end there is the unschooling method, and on the other end there is the school-at-home method.

Most homeschooling families fall somewhere along this spectrum, depending on the family situations, the parents’ personalities, beliefs and aspirations, and the children’s gifts, learning styles and personalities.

What works for one family is different from the others. We define “work” here as a method that helps the family move towards their goals, but it doesn’t create frustrations and emotional outbursts as the household’s typical atmosphere. 

Unschooling practitioners believe that children are essentially natural learners. We should give the children the freedom to explore their interests, do self-discovery, and not interfere with their processes as much as possible. Children are not constrained by structures. Parents or teachers serve as mentors to affirm the children and as facilitators to give any support needed, so the children are not stuck and can be free to develop their interests.

The school-at-home practitioners believe in the structure, sequence and scope that traditional schools have. They emulate the methods the traditional schools use for knowledge transfer as much as they can. The only difference is the setting; the children do their schooling at home instead of school.

For our family, we lean more towards school-at-home on the spectrum because of my love of structure. I am more confident in my steps if I can follow some guidelines. It is also easier to evaluate and assess progress, and this gives me peace of mind. Our family’s homeschooling tends to be rigorous in academic studies, and our daily schedule is quite packed. 

I would imagine the dynamics would be very different if a child in the family has artistic interests and talents. The artistic children would require a lot of time to practice their craft and produce artworks. Or if a child has a particularly strong interest and gift in any area, then the unschooling method could give the child more freedom to pursue excellence in their field. It is perfectly fine as long as all the activities still align with the family goals that have been set together. Different families with different aspirations and emphases will have very different homeschooling experiences.

The Benefits of Homeschooling

Moral Frameworks, VALUES, bELIEFS and Life Habits

Where to begin? I believe homeschooling has many benefits, especially for the younger children, the kindergarten and elementary age groups. During these foundational and formative years, children are still tender and impressionable. They are keen to absorb new things, and parents can fully optimize this phase to teach moral frameworks and train good life habits.

Family values and beliefs can be transferred through shared understandings and ingrained through family habits. A child’s emotional patterns can also be trained and ordered by habits. How the child habitually thinks and feels will naturally become part of their characteristic. We strongly believe the accumulation of their little habitual choices set the trajectory of their lives.

Reclaiming the Time

Yet creating good habits takes so much investment of time, effort and patience. When we homeschool, I think time is the most valuable resource that we are claiming back, but we need to manage it well. The flexibility and control of time are like a blank canvas for me. I can decide how to fill my children’s time according to our family’s priorities. I can have more control over their life experiences as they spend their time together with me.

It can be daunting for some people to be responsible for their children’s day to day schedule of the whole academic year. It’s scary at the beginning for me as well but exhilarating at the same time. These responsibilities also come with its privileges. 

The time privilege offers huge potential benefits such as closeness among family members, education experience tailored to the kids’ strengths and optimization of the child’s time. In homeschool, we don’t need to deal with traffic, class control and busywork.

A note of caution: even though I said time is like a blank canvas when we homeschool, our children are not. They have their own sets of inborn bents, personal struggles and passions that can be very different from us. It is the main job of the parents to study them diligently and closely. We then wisely incorporate our knowledge of them, our family situations, goals, and values when designing the family’s schooling experience.

A Restful Place and Pace

The English word of school comes from ‘schole.’ It’s a Greek word for leisure. Learning and studying were not seen as work or chore back then but as leisure. School is both a leisure and a privilege because you don’t need to worry about paying the bills, profits or productivity. You learn because it excites and enlightens you.

During the classical time, a school should be a relaxed, contemplative space for children developing their minds, body and souls. Children used the safe space to inquire and wrestle with new ideas, knowledge and questions. Children then had the freedom to resolve any conflicts they might have between their inner soul and the external world. 

Ideally, school or schole is a restful learning place to contemplate truth, goodness and beauty. 

Restful here means it is run at the right pace to allow our soul to breathe and our mind to be at its most inquisitive. The right pace for each child to interact with facts, thoughts, and ideas, instead of merely cramming knowledge or information into the mind and doing busy work. The latter can slowly crush and drain the soul. 

Homeschooling is a means to provide that safe and nourishing learning space. The world can be a fearful place for our souls, either too hostile or too cohesive. Hostile means unfriendly and offensive to one’s ways of life or core being. Cohesive means so conforming with one another such that will frown on (if any) differences.  

School should focus not only on the work of the hands but also on the demeanor of the hearts and minds, the unfolding and molding of the soul.

Homeschooling gives the children freedom and confidence to be themselves while they are in the process of discovering and figuring out because of the anchoring safety of family’s love and acceptance.

We proceed at the most appropriate pace for each child without having to worry about other children. Ideally, homeschooling also provides the time, freedom and space for creativity to take place. It is no surprise that homeschooling kids will outperform the school kids if we just take the average test scores.

Growth Opportunities for the Parents

In the traditional sense of homeschooling, the parents are usually the teachers of the children. Homeschoolers commonly argue that this is the best set-up for the children. No one in the world has vested interests in the child more than the parents. Parents will do and give their all for their children because they love the children more than anybody. 

Yet, I will put up a note of caution here: as you can readily imagine, there are also corresponding weaknesses in this set-up, which I will honestly discuss in the next section. Parents also come with their own sets of flaws and weaknesses. There are tremendous learning and growth opportunities for the parents too in homeschooling if they press on and prevail over them. 

It would be a powerful lesson for the child if the parents can model the process of overcoming their weaknesses and difficulties in authentic ways. Homeschooling will unearth the parents’ deeply held beliefs, sinful patterns and life priorities, and it requires humble and teachable attitudes on the part of the parents to come face to face with their own vices.

Freedom to Prioritize

One challenge for educators both in schools and homeschools is that students have to cover so much more material in their study compared to even a century ago. Many things need to be learned and crammed into a child’s mind to deem them ready to enter society and fully function. In homeschooling, we have the freedom to cut courses that we believe will not serve our children well.

According to C.S. Lewis, when we teach too many courses, we force a child into mediocrity and destroy their standards for life. Pruning a curriculum to focus on priorities and to allow for mastery is the way to go. The fruit of education is creation, not regurgitation.

Homeschooling is very efficient in terms of knowledge transfer because we can prioritize the courses we consider important, and we can focus on one or a small number of kids to teach. We don’t need to exert as much energy for classroom control and logistics, and we can customize the pace, the materials and the learning experience. 

Possibilities to Redesign Educational Experience

I am not sure how effective the existing schooling system is for the future. The Industrial Revolution 4.0 is just at its beginning phase. Information technology, particularly with Automation and Artificial Intelligence, will revolutionize how we learn and apply our skills in our work. Reading from the signs, I think we are at the onset of the old education system’s collapse. 

Our current education system mimics a factory, fulfilling the required scopes and sequences in an assembly line fashion, the old Industrial Revolution style. Parents with all their might put their kids in a series of institutions (from kindergarten to college) which have the best brands since we presume they will lead to the best life opportunities for our children. 

This “mass production” education factory, arguably, is increasingly becoming out of date. Most of the standardized skills are exactly those that can be automated or performed by AI with ease. Workers of tomorrow will be the ones with distinct individual skills and creativity, people who can come up with the right questions.

Now is the transition time, the old education system is losing its effectiveness and becoming burdensome. Some say that 50% of today’s jobs won’t be available, and 50% of tomorrow’s jobs are not even conceivable today. In light of this transition stage, what kind of holistic education experience should we give our children?

Education needs to be more agile, less rigid and structured. Even Google has recently changed their recruitment process, bypassing the four-year college degree requirement for some company positions. What is important is whether the person can do a particular job, less about the degrees or the brands on the diplomas. 

The Challenges of Homeschooling

In this section, I share the challenges of homeschooling from our family experience. Some may be unique to our household, and some may be universal.

The Mental Burden of Self Doubt

There is this boulder of mental burden for the parents. We question ourselves regularly if what we do at home is enough to prepare the children to go into the real world. We don’t have the backing of an institution or support from colleagues. Everything solely rests on our shoulders. 

There is also that innate tendency to compare and conform with other families. Homeschoolers need to consistently fight it off and remember the reasons we have chosen this non-mainstream path.

The Lust for Academic Achievements

My own deep passion for learning is bordering on the gluttony of knowledge. I find it easy for homeschooling moms to be hyper-ambitious and transgress the sensible limits in the scopes of study, especially if we have unlimited options and resources.

We want our children to enjoy a more relaxed pace to learn, but in reality, many different things clamor for attention and importance. Academic tensions and pressures pull us in many different directions. The kind of leisurely learning that the Greeks and the Romans described sometimes feels unattainable. 

If we do not deliberately curb our passions and practice temperance, we can be easily seduced into putting too much burden on our child. It may strain the parent-child relationship, not to mention take out the life and love of learning from the child.

Cicero, a Roman scholar, warned us of the lust for learning that takes us beyond the boundary marked for us.

In the 1740 revival movement in the United States, theologian Jonathan Edwards said if the Devil cannot stop a good thing, he will move to the back and push things to excess or extremes. 

The intense desire for academic achievements and love of knowledge commonly plagues Asian families. We should be on the lookout for this dangerous inclination, especially if we have gifted children.

Limitations of Real-world Rigors and Consequences

One big challenge for homeschooling parents, which is somewhat the opposite of the second challenge, is limitations in simulating real-world rigors and consequences. There is no institution or positive peer pressure around to help direct the child into certain desirable behaviors. 

It is true nobody loves the child as the parents do. Our hearts are bound to theirs. Nobody is willing to sacrifice more for our children than us. But on the flip side of it, parents can be too permissive in accommodating the child and do not exert enough strength to discipline the child. If we cannot direct the child with effective consequences, it is easier for them to succumb to their fleshly desires. This is not training and preparing the child well. 

There are two levels of change we want to happen, the heart level change and the behavior level change. The heart level changes would need wise, loving guidance from the parents and, ultimately, the grace of God. For some behavior level changes, the school institution and positive peer pressure can help facilitate the desired behaviors. 

James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, said that environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior. For better or worse, school and its environment shape our children’s behaviors. Even though the changes only happen at the behavior level, there is still some value in that. Sometimes changes may start at the behavior level, then move to the heart level and alter it permanently.

Homeschooling gives the child freedom and security to be themselves without hostility from others or pressures to conform. There is beauty in freedom, especially when the children are still little, but there is also beauty in restraints and self-control. If a child cannot handle boundaries, bear respectful attitudes and manage responsibilities, it will be detrimental for their effectiveness in the real world later. 

Older Children Might Need a “Bigger” Playground

Our family believes as the children get older, they need challenges and competitions, friends and failures to grow further and thrive and build their resilience and wisdom. They will need a “bigger playground” to practice and experiment. They can get those experiences better at school. It is very difficult for parents to simulate them at home. 

Parents would need strong determination to resist the instinct to always make things easier for their child, which actually weakens the child. Thus a parent’s desire to love and protect may produce undesirable outcomes in the child if not wisely applied.

Hesitations to Homeschool

Most parents who are hesitant to homeschool told me they had either or both of these weaknesses: lack of discipline and lack of patience. I myself love schedules, structure and studying, so maybe I am doing quite okay with the whole discipline thing. However, I also like quietness, order, efficiency, productiveness, and at the beginning of my parenting journey, I also still struggled with perfectionism. So you can imagine how a full-day of homeschooling with all the cacophony and chaos can be very emotionally taxing for me.

Suppose the parent is still trapped in unhealthy emotional patterns, then the too-intense interactions between parent and child in a homeschooling setting might have damaging repercussions on the child’s emotional state and development.

Parents can be blinded by their selfish love for their children or driven by inner fears and ambitions for the child’s future. They can’t exhibit genuine love and positive attitudes, which are essential for the children to thrive. 

Then the prevalent atmosphere in the house is exasperation, sprinkled with emotional outbursts instead of delighting in each other. If the unhealthy pattern perpetuates for a long time, it might cause lasting impacts and color the fabric of the parent-child relationship for life.

When parents have irritable disposition and don’t have much sanity to spare or can’t adhere to structures and schedules, it is okay or maybe better to outsource some or all of the academic subjects to third parties to teach.

If you like, you can still teach some of the school subjects that are your strengths and passions. As parents, the most important thing is to build heart connections with your child. 

From my personal experience, teaching academic subjects is actually the easiest part. As my child gets older, I sense the academic part is actually the least impactful to my child’s long-term quality of life. 

Habits, values, characters and spiritual foundations are the more definitive factors that determine our child’s life path. This might sound trite, but my conviction grows as I observe and survey people’s life paths. We cannot outsource the training of these to outsiders.

We can leverage some help and support from the experts, but parents hold the highest mandate and earthly authority to train and discipline the child.

Another common concern most people have for homeschooled children is the ability to socialize with different people. I don’t believe homeschooled children are socially awkward. Social awkwardness depends more on the personality and the character of the person. 

Homeschooled children may lack exposure from peer settings, but they gain valuable perspectives by hanging out daily with people of different ages. If they have the maturity, appreciation for others and emotional acumen, it will take no time for homeschooled children to understand, catch up and adjust socially.

Do not make your decision to homeschool or not to homeschool based on fears or a sense of adequacy, but on God’s calling for your season of life right now. If God does call you to homeschool, that means there will be tremendous growth opportunities for you and your children that He wants you to go through by way of homeschooling. Yes, you will need to get down, dirty, messy and tear-stained. Your emotion may ride like a rollercoaster every day, oscillating between loving and loathing. I haven’t reached the finish line yet, but I can say the journey has been worth it for my children and me.

Let me share with you one more benefit of homeschooling that might motivate you further to homeschool. This one bonus thing is particularly sustaining and rewarding as I plow through the homeschooling trek daily. That is, I can be the firsthand witness of my daughter’s little moments of triumphs. 

That moment she finally understands and gets it, the joy of learning and overcoming on her face, the moment she initiates to do the right thing without a second thought, the moment her uniqueness and personality burst and shine, the moment her heart seems so open and accepting of me. In homeschooling, we can be there to catch those moments when they happen. It’s so rewarding and even glorious to witness. 

The Purpose of Homeschooling: Cultivate and Grow

We want to cultivate our children’s growth to the fullest in their physical and emotional fitness, strong mental faculties, beautiful characters, steady moral compass and personal relationship with God. As you might imagine, parenting or homeschooling can be an overwhelming job if we want to have all things on track at the same time. 

I learn there is no formula in parenting and homeschooling. There is no guaranteed result when you follow a particular path or philosophy. We have to keep in mind homeschooling is only one of the tools God provides to educate and cultivate our children. If we want to have a better chance of success in homeschooling, I strongly suggest applying these two steps. 

First, we define, visualize and calibrate our homeschooling goals for each of our unique children so that everything is aligned with God’s designs, plans and values. There’s no avoiding time on your knees, praying for guidance, wisdom, strength, courage, grace and self-control to carry on this homeschool assignment from God.  This is the wisest strategy to prevent disappointments and not waste any effort on things that are not part of God’s plan.

We are the steward and not the owner of our children, and we should always check back with the owner. We can’t be foolish enough to do this on our own. We need divine aid at every step.

I think this part of Peter’s letter encapsulates our parenting or homeschooling goals. This verse illustrates cultivating our children to their fullness.

2 Peter 1:5-8. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Second, we apply the Pareto principle in our parenting or homeschooling. This roughly means that our desired outcomes actually depend only on a few driving causes, and we should focus our effort on these few factors. 

Homeschoolers will readily admit that there are so many ongoing tensions that pull us in different directions. There are the child’s academic career, habits, behaviors and lifestyle, friendships and family relationships, physical and emotional health, characters strength, moral sensitivity, and spiritual growth that parents need to work on. Many simultaneously require our attention and effort, and sometimes we feel we spread ourselves thin.

If we can identify and direct our effort more on key strategic areas, the results will have multiplier effects. The progress in these strategic areas will unlock the jam in the child’s struggling soul and spur growth in other areas as well. A close and wise observation of the child is called for to discern the core issues, pick our battles and focus our energy on those. 

Our child starts as a seed. Inside the seed, there are already predispositions, inborn traits and personalities, weaknesses and giftedness, passions and interests. As parents, we do our best to cultivate the seed to its fullest potential so that it can yield abundant good fruits. 

We water, shelter, fertilize, space them nicely, pull the weeds around, expose them to sunlight, and then we watch and pray. We follow God’s principles, His precepts, His wisdom and His guidance, and then we watch and pray. This is the end of our efforts because we are only conditioning the seed and the soil as best as we can, but God is the one who makes the seeds grow and bear eternal good fruits. 

This is a prayer for my girls and all our children: May you become women of substance, character and beauty.  May you love God and the people around you deeply. May you be productive and effective workers in God’s kingdom, giving your all and all.

A Call to Homeschool?

I have shared the benefits and the challenges of homeschooling in our family, but this truth bears repeating: there’s no formula for guaranteed results. Parents need guided wisdom from God to assess their family’s unique situation and decide what is best for the whole family. 

God gives the calling of parenting once we have children, but it is not our only calling. You may have to decide the call to homeschool in light of your other callings. If we want our children to be faithful to their callings when they grow up, we should model it for them. 

Some of you might be called to homeschool, some of you might be not. Both cases are totally fine, and neither family is shortchanged. It is of utmost importance that we be faithful stewards to the One who calls because He knows what is best for our family and us. 

If we are faithful in following God, we can trust God will fill in whatever is lacking in our parenting or homeschooling. Our children will not lack anything they need from achieving their life purpose.

In this last section, I want to add one more benefit of homeschooling: homeschooling is more of a God’s tool for shaping the parents than the children. Homeschooling is an opportunity of a lifetime for the parents to grow and transform!

Children have fleshly desires and so do the parents. In homeschooling, our flesh will be tested like never before. If we want to do things right, we learn to be unselfish and serving, say no to idleness and ungodliness, extend compassion, forgiveness and reconciliation over and over again, increase our self-control and emotional capacity.

We will learn not to operate in a performance-based paradigm with our family members. I read the other day that anger’s real name is grief. There is grief when we discover just how much is outside of our control. Much of our parental anger is actually stemmed from grief and fear. We are grieving over the death of our dreams and expectations, and we are fearful that the future will not shine upon our family.

If we let go of our ideals and goals, embrace the vision from God and entrust the future to Him, then this parenting yoke will be much, much lighter, and the parenting life will be more restful and enjoyable. We can be set free and increasingly grace-filled.

Matthew 11:28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

What a wonderful promise from Jesus, our Savior! If we work only on the portion He gives us, and we trust the rest to Him, parenting and homeschooling should not be as stressful as we make it to be. He said his yoke is easy, and his burden is light. Parenting and homeschooling should be a wonderful burden that will fit us just right and not overwhelm us if we come to Him with all our weariness and fears.

When we take Jesus’ yoke, we still have to carry burdens and responsibilities, but the load will be just right to stretch our soul to grow but can still be restful and not wearied down with anxieties. We know He has the power to make things happen according to His plan regardless of our performance (omnipotent), He knows the future (omniscient), He will always be with us (omnipresent), and He loves our children more than we ever could. We can trust Him.

Parenting or homeschooling is not for the faint-hearted because it is like going into an open-heart surgery.  The Surgeon wants to make our heart holier, better and stronger, but we have to let go and be vulnerable.

2 Corinthians 3:18: And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate at the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

We are in the midst of this process, both parent and child, a transformation process by the Holy Spirit into the image of Jesus with ever-increasing glory. The keyword I want to emphasize is ever-increasing. Years of homeschooling will “process” us, and we will be amazed at how far we have come. So take heart with this encouragement and embrace your calling. Enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination!

Note: If you have any more questions or are interested in having more information about homeschooling, you can write your questions and comments below or contact me directly via e-mail.