Homeschooling is hard!!!!!!! Each of my boys is a different age (Earl-14, Johnathan-13,William-11). They are all interrested in different things. Yet, I still have to opperate a loving home, build a successful art career, love my spouse and myself, spend time with my Daddy (God), and have a life, all the while giving them what can be considered by the outside world, a good education. The things I like about homeschooling is that we can spend as little or as much time as is neccessary to really learn about a particular subject. My eldest boy loves rap music, the Crips (which I myself need to learn more about), and the whole "thug" lifestyle. I admit it scares me. Mostly because there is so much about all of it that I myself don't know. But that's the hidden blessing. I get to learn with them. John is big into baseball, yet I am no sports fanatic. And Willy is simply in love with life itself. Each has it's challenges and successes. There are many days when I feel so much like a failure. Other days seem too short to get much done. There hasn't been one single day that all 3 boys are in the same boat together. I have found that we are all oppinionated! They all have taught me about myself, in the ways they respond (usually in ways I dislike), but then I look in the mirror and realize they are just like me or their father. I firmly believe that much of our problems in the world today, where people are concerned, is that we don't recognize our own reflection when we see it. It may look like someone else and nothing like ourselves (or what we percieve as our true reflection). For example, do you get mad at the stranger on the freeway who just cut you off, flipped you the finger, and then slammed on his breaks almost causing you to crash into him/her? Have you EVER been that person? Had a bad day? Been in a hurry? Had too much on your mind to give a care of what others think or do? I think it's time that we as a society of HUMANs, reguardless of race, nationallity, creed....to at least consider what God says. Take the telephone pole out of our eye to see clearly to help our brothers and sisters get the toothpick out of their eye. Put ourselves in their shoes. I try to do that with my kids on a daily basis. Unlike them, I wasn't raised with all of the technology available today. My parents whooped my butt if I even looked like I was doing something wrong. Go back further in history, more speciffically black history, and people were severly injured, crippled or killed for less than that! The point is, we all have our stories to tell, and we crave an audience that will hear it for what it is. Be it, how this country was "won", what's the real "entertainment value" of sports, i.e. competition, or that people are people and we are all flawed. We all need each other to make it in this life. We all need to be honest with ourselves,that there are things about ourselves we wish we didn't have to deal with. That everyone, man, woman, child, has bad days and good ones, has oppinions about ourselves and others that we, ourselves, might not fully agree with. The point is that we all live in the moment, some choose to dwell on the past, many look to the future, but until we understand ourselves, we can't possibly understand others. It is in learning of others that we most clearly see ourselves. Live, learn, and above all love each other, and know that love is many times....PAINFUL and HARD....but sooooooo worth it.
Posted By: Lesley Knight
Thursday, September 11th 2008 at 1:34PM
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