Color Speak: Unveiling Truth for Light

Color Speak, Season 2, Episode 13, Why Not Homeschool? Reflections on the End of a Season

May 11, 2022 J. M. Huxley Season 2 Episode 13
Color Speak: Unveiling Truth for Light
Color Speak, Season 2, Episode 13, Why Not Homeschool? Reflections on the End of a Season
Show Notes

Last week Kirk Cameron released a documentary entitled The Homeschool Awakening for the purposes of encouraging parents to take control of the lives and destinies of their kids. 

Maybe you have been thinking of doing that. 

Maybe you already are teaching your kids at home. 

Perhaps you have never considered such a thing but with the state of things, you want to hear what I have to say on the matter. 

Or, you could have nothing else to do and you know God always stops down here so you'll have a listen.

Regardless, you are probably greatly concerned about where our future is headed, what with the lousy curriculum many public schools choose to use and the agendas many people who are supposed to care about the welfare of children are pushing. 

My husband and I chose to homeschool in 2005, when it was way weirder than it is now. Actually, I think most people are begining to come around to the idea in 2022. It really isn't so weird anymore, for so many reasons.

But tonight is the end of our chapter.  Along with hundreds of others in the Kansas City area who chose to educate their children at home, we will graduate our youngest daughter from high school. What began at home  with her siblings led to many classes at several different academies and our local community college, but as far as the record shows, Gracie was home schooled and home grown.

Our oldest son, Taylor, is 33 now, so we've been graduating kids for a decade and a half. Not all were schooled at home. Three attended public school. One excusively. Five attended private school. None exclusively. The last two were strictly homeschooled. It was a process.

It seemed to take a while.

Kids got married. Grandchildren arrived. Kevin and I got older. We had ups and downs. But it was mostly good.

So, as I wrap up my own schooling experience, I got to thinking, it might be a good time to encourage you to choose to yours, if you can.

I'm not an advocate for doing anything a certain way, let me disclaim. I am an advocate for doing what is best for your family and for what fosters a closeness with Jesus.

I realize not every person is in a position to tackle their child’s education. But if you could, why not?

I will add that I did not address all of the wonderful resources, curriculum, and support available to those who are interested in this episode. Just know, if you are called to do this, our God will not only equip you, he will delight you.

As with anything, if it is something God wants you to do, and you give it your best, you cannot fail!
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2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
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J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. She is the former operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks, and former twelve-year fitness instructor for 24-Hr. Fitness, prior to homeschooling her children on a farm and blogging therapeutically about the radical shift of a city woman’s heart on the unbroken plains of Kansas. Huxley and her husband Kevin have eight children, five grandchildren, and more lives

J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. Currently, she is a morning news anchor for conservative radio; formerly, an airborne traffic and news reporter and the operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks. Her memoir, MILK AND HONEY LAND: A Story of Grief, Grace, and Goats , won the 2019 Author Academy Award for Best Memoir, and the 2021 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Christian - Non-Fiction genre. Her children’s book, RAINBOW LAND , encourages children to see God in the rainbow.

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