We’ve been formally homeschooling for almost half a year now. That’s not a long time in comparison. I must qualify that statement though. for we’ve not stopped homeschooling our children from the time they were born.
From the time when they were weeks out of the womb, we sang, talked and read to them. We showed them sunsets, leaves and spectacular creatures like spiders and lizards. We took them for walks in the park and occasional vacations by the sea. They played peek-a-boo and hide-and-seek with their maternal grandparents and listened to their paternal grandfather’s lectures about what little children should and shouldn’t be doing.
In short, we live as a family, doing things and being what we loved to be most- together, enjoying each other. That is what homeschooling is about after all – the putting aside of things that tear asunder: tight schedules, unrealistic expectations, external pressures to perform and to keep up.Hence, homeschooling for us has been that deliberate “no” to these destructive forces, and a “YES!” to the life we have been called to live.
It has not been that long a journey, and yet it begun from the time we became a family.
In the weeks ahead, I will be putting up some pictures of the learning activities and projects that we have done for this first half of the year. The rest of the pictures of our homeschool, I’m delighted to tell, are too voluminous to be placed in this space.
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