Home Schooling: Giving Your Child a Strong Foundation
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Home schooling is one of the fastest growing forms of education in the United States and a lot of families are interested … but intimidated as well! Monica Swanson describes how she was reluctant at first, but soon reveled in the many benefits of home schooling. Things like prepping them for life in the real world, shaping the character of her sons, and providing them with a solid Christian worldview.
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| 0:15.6 | We all know that anxiety and depression has been on the rise for years and homeschool kids just have a environment that they are able to one not deal with a lot of the pressures and the things that are causing anxiety and depression but when |
| 0:19.2 | something comes up they also have a space that they can deal with that. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, that comment reflects one of the many reasons why a growing number of families are |
| 0:27.1 | considering and even pursuing homeschooling as an alternative. |
| 0:31.1 | We'll be hearing a lot more today on Focus on the Family with |
| 0:33.8 | Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. John you and Dina homeschooled right? We did. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah. Most of the kids most of the way through. Yeah that's amazing. |
| 0:40.4 | Gene I considered it but we kind of thought, |
| 0:42.9 | you know what, we're not organized to do it. |
| 0:45.8 | And the kids, I think they would have done well that way, |
| 0:48.7 | but we kind of said, are we capable of doing it? |
| 0:51.6 | We probably could have done it to be fair, but there was something |
| 0:56.3 | intimidating about it and that's why I'm so looking forward to this broadcast. I'm sure there |
| 1:00.5 | are literally thousands of parents listening that probably |
| 1:04.4 | are thinking should we do it should we not do it we're going to clarify some of |
| 1:08.5 | those issues today and let you know what the real landscape looks like when it comes to public and homeschooling. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah, a lot of parents had their eyes open during COVID and they had to do some level of education |
| 1:19.3 | for their kids. |
| 1:20.8 | More and more though, parents are saying we want to homeschool and we have a great guest joining us today. |
| 1:25.6 | Monica Swanson is a blogger author, speaker, podcast host and homeschooling mom. |
| 1:31.6 | I don't know. We'll find out she does have four sons and she's written a book |
| 1:35.8 | that is the basis for our conversation today becoming homeschoolers give your |
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