Well, welcome to Family Talk, everyone. I'm your host Dr. James Dobson, and today we're going to take another look at

homeschooling which many parents are either doing now or they're attracted to.

They are motivated frankly by two cultural developments.

The first is the COVID pandemic, which changed public education dramatically.

When my generation grew up, our moms packed little lunches for us and we were scurried off to get on a yellow bus,

or as in my case, we walked to a neighborhood school where we spent the next seven hours.

Parents trusted teachers in those days because they usually knew them and they felt comfortable with what was going on in the

classroom. Then came the pandemic and education became virtual. So that more or less forced parents into the teaching process and

they began to see the advantages of spending each day with their much loved kids.

This is the first reason homeschooling has grown so rapidly

is exponentially, in fact, in the last couple of years.

It introduced a new experience for children and their parents.

Now, the second force driving homeschooling is what I call the radicalization of curricula.

Many Christian parents and even some of those who don't share our faith

are deeply concerned about critical race theory, among other things, which continues

to spread across the nation, and they oppose what passes for sex education and a leftist ideology such as LGBT curricula

that often begins in kindergarten, which takes my breath away.

It's a form of indoctrination that in worst cases warps the young minds of boys and girls

and contradicts what moms and dads are trying to teach at home,

including biblical concepts of right and wrong.

I want to tell you that if our children, speaking of Shirley and me, were young today,

we would either put them in Christian schools, which we did anyway, or we would do the job at home.

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