More photos from our trip to Tanzania
Bianca passing out treats
The Basic Tools of Learning
Though it’s only March, this is the time of the year when parents begin planning for next school year. We begin researching curriculums. We attend homeschooling conventions. We begin asking our friends questions about what worked for them.
This is also a great time to begin educating yourself, getting new insight and fresh perspective. This is the time of the year, when we renew our vision and purpose for educating. I’ll be honest, this vision is the fuel that enables us to finish the school year strong. There is a wonderful purpose to all of this.Continue Reading
Meant for More
Recently, I’ve been thinking alot about how to prepare for my children for life beyond our home. I think of the struggles that I’ve had in getting comfortable in my own skin, and this journey of re-discovering who I really am. I’ve been told what to do, and how to do it. I was told to work extremely hard in high school. Get good grades. And go to college. That would assure me a “good job” . So I did. I took as many AP classes as possible. I worked my buns off in order to keep my GPA as close to perfection as possible.Continue Reading
What Really Matters
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ok, let’s get real.
What parent dreams about their child becoming a street sweeper? Hmm… I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, not many of us. (even if they are GREAT street sweepers) But doesn’t someone have to sweep the streets? I know you’re thinking it. Well, of course, the losers sweep streets, not the hard working and the well educated. No one chooses to sweep streets, do they?
So as we prepare our children for their future, what are we preparing them for? Greatness! We want them to do things that are marvelous, spectacular, amazing… We want them to be successful.
So what is success?