The Abundant Homeschool Checklist
Hi, Mamas. We are experimenting with creating short videos that we can put on Instagram. This is the one we made for today. Below is a transcript of the video. Below the transcript are ten ideas for an abundant homeschool, followed by a verse from Ephesians 3 to encourage you. I’d love to hear what you think about my occasionally including videos like these in my blog posts. We plan to try it again on Thursday. Thank you for being faithful readers.
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Friends from church recently invited us to dinner. The southern cooking was delicious. Our hostess topped off the meal with yummy pecan pie. One of the many ways I could describe that meal is abundant.
The Bible sometimes compares people to sheep. Jesus told about a thief who comes to steal and kill and destroy the sheep. By contrast, Jesus said:
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
Children deserve an abundant childhood with abundant opportunities to learn and abundant opportunities to be children. Sometimes education steals childhood, kills curiosity, and destroys joy. It’s tempting for homeschooling mamas to let fear and peer pressure push them into doing those very things.
Ten ideas for an abundant homeschool:
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and teach your children to do the same.
- Make your children feel like the most loved children in the world.
- Find out what fascinates your children and give them opportunities to explore those interests.
- Get out of the house! Spend time in God’s creation and explore wonderful places near and far.
- Teach your children to love others and give them opportunities to show it in concrete ways.
- Choose curriculum that your children enjoy.
- Provide lots of great books and time in your children’s schedule to read them and to listen to their parents read them.
- Cultivate a loving family in your home and among your relatives.
- Count time in “extra-curricular” activities as “school” time.
- Live a life of joy and service and purpose and faith that your children can emulate.
Now to Him who is able to do
far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works within us,
to Him be the glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus to all generations
forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20