Ring! Ring-ring! Ring ring ring

Does the ringing of bells at regular intervals take you back in time? Does the hollow sound of metal slamming bring back memories of rushing to class? There is always the aroma of chalk dust, chicken soup at 9am coming from the cafeteria-it was always fish or pizza on Friday, right? to whisk you to an earlier time (of your life).

So many sights, sounds, and scents are associated with the
180 days a year
average 6 hrs. a day
12 yrs. not counting kindergarten

nearly 13,000 hours, or 2,160 days, ALMOST SIX years, spent within the confines of the traditional school setting. Is it any wonder why so many of our habits, ideas, quirks, pet-peeves, fears, and irrational thougths and ideas are connected to school daze? I do mean DAZE.

Attending the traditional school, especially any public funded school, is a whirl of activity, a see-saw balance of good, needful educational stuff, and the politically correct-anti-God anti-authority garbage, that does nothing but confuse the heart, and take the mind off what needs to be learned. 'Nough said.

The joy of what our family, and maybe yours, is doing with homeschooling, is we can by-pass all the garbage, and worthless stuff we were forced to endure, and focus on what is important to us.
We have the hope of instilling in our children the 3 R's with the Biblical/religious beliefs and political slant that we believe in.

Homeschooling gives us an irreplacible gift, one that is stolen away by the traditional school. That gift is T-I-M-E. Think back to all those hours YOU spent in school. Do you think your life today, your goals, your ideas, but MUCH MORE importantly, do you believe your RELATIONSHIP(S) would be better, if you had the opportunity to learn people skills at home?
This might not apply to those who come from broken or dysfunctional homes, but then again what is a dysfunctional family? All families have their faults, and dysfunctions somewhere.

Time is a precious commodity that once lost can never be regained. Homeschooling gives us time with our children, and in return, our children gain time with their parents. Instead of the teacher getting the pleasure of hearing a child read their first word, the homeschool mom or dad has another "first" to record, lovingly in his/her book of memories.