What's in a home school? Most importantly, you, your children, and your faith!
I looked up the many dictionary results on home and school and want to break it down for you. As home school parents, seeing these defined will inspire you in your home educating endeavors.
Home: a residence for a family where one's domestic affections are centered and a dwelling place for retreat, a refuge, a place where something is in common, holds destination and goals, a principle place of operations or activities, a place that pertains to your products as a principle main office or 'center of operations, deep to the heart and is a driving point as when something hits home, hits 'home' is reaching a mark, like home base, reaching a desired position, in proper stowed position as an anchor, provision, setting towards a home base, where something is clarified and brought home to understanding, having safely reached a goal as in 'home free' as likened to; finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, and secured.
Wow, what home means to our lives and our children's lives with the light of God's word and His ways in the center of it, is amazing. Our responsibility and honor is to train our children in the center of our affections in that place of refuge where great accomplishments and successes are secured.
School: an institution where instruction is given, even in a particular skill or field, a regular course of meetings with students for instruction, the activity or process of learning under instruction, one's formal education, a building housing a school, "any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything", pupils who are taught to master a system, method, "a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence", "any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs", "to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train"
Wow, what home and school mean together for our children can be seen and defined richly. As we develop our schools to teach our children at home, we find our school is to be filled with common attitudes and beliefs at the very center. Isn't that the reason we as parents have chosen 'home and school' as a combination? Absolutely!
Our affections are set at the heart of what we believe and as we teach our children, we can train them not only in the excellence of academics, but keep everything centered around our faith. That in itself is the value of every home school and nothing compares to the value of our children!
lovin' home abundance,
Pastor Kim
