Ep. 28: We Are the Parents - Part 2 (The Why Behind Our Homeschool)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Last week, we talked about the fact that we--not the government or the church or public education--are responsible for the well-rounded education of the children that have been gifted to our care by God.
This week, we continue the discussion with the "why" behind our family's choice to home school, as well as some background on my own homeschool experience growing up.
Be encouraged (but also sobered), moms and dads, that whatever schooling choices the Lord leads you to, it is you who must give an account before the Lord for what you have done to steward your children's hearts and guide them toward His ways.
We cannot save our children or keep them in the narrow way, it's true. But we can do everything in our power (by God's help and grace) to be intentional to point them toward the Way Everlasting.
Bible References:
1 Corinthians 1:27
Isaiah 55:8-9
1 Corinthians 3:19
Deuteronomy 6:7
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to part two of our two-part episode on what it looks like to be the primary |
| 0:11.0 | disciples of our children, what it looks like to make the hard choices |
| 0:13.8 | instead of abdicating responsibility. |
| 0:16.2 | And that can be in any area we've discussed a variety of areas |
| 0:19.3 | in the first episode. |
| 0:20.8 | And today I'm going to dive more into the FAQ that we get. |
| 0:25.0 | Why do you homeschool, what is your homeschooling background look like? |
| 0:28.0 | But I just want to encourage you, if anything that we've talked about so far has brought some feelings of being unsettled or discomfort or |
| 0:35.8 | conviction. I really encourage you to lean into that. I felt them before and |
| 0:40.0 | it's easy to run away from them. It's easy to find outlets to make sure that you stay too busy to listen to them. |
| 0:46.0 | Because it could be something as small as simplifying your life and it may not feel small to you. |
| 0:52.0 | You may thrive on |
| 0:53.4 | busyness or even kind of get a dopamine hit off of never being home and the |
| 0:57.8 | Lord may be asking you to come home, maybe not even to homeschooling but just to |
| 1:01.0 | being with your family more. And I think that is one thing that I will |
| 1:04.8 | emphasize over and over again is that there are only so many hours in our day. And if we have |
| 1:11.1 | been tasked with being the primary disciples of our children, |
| 1:14.0 | we have to be willing to admit that sometimes the math just isn't working out for us to be the primary disciples. |
| 1:21.0 | And if we end up being on the flip side of being the people that spend I think I saw a |
| 1:25.6 | statistic somewhere that said that the average parent these days spends about 30 minutes of |
| 1:29.9 | face-to-face time with their children each day. |
| 1:32.6 | Y'all, there are 24 hours in the day. |
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