Seton Magazine Catholic Homeschool Articles, Advice & Resources
Summary
There are so many blessings, but the biggest blessing often mentioned is sharing a life with those you love the most.Watching the Little Ones Flourish…
The biggest blessing I’ve experienced through homeschooling has been time spent with my children. Now that I am the mother of numerous adult children, I know first-hand how quickly time passes and how dear it truly is.
Homeschooling provided me with opportunities to watch my little ones flourish and grow. It afforded me chances to witness the milestones and experience the achievements of my teenagers.
Homeschooling allowed me to be present in the lives of my family members. And that presence led to greater insights into each child’s needs, challenges, and talents.
Time in the day-to-day education of my children equated to more chances: to have an impact on their understanding of the world, to direct their education in more effective ways, to provide support when there were challenges, to applaud the victories, and, overall, to show them that learning is about far more than just the memorizing of facts and formulas.
Time is a fleeting resource. We don’t get to go back. However, we can fully immerse ourselves in each moment as it unfolds, living it to the fullest. Homeschooling offered my family and me that chance. And now that more than half of my beautiful brood have spread their wings and flown the nest, I am eternally grateful for the blessing of time I had with each one.
Tara Brelinsky, North Carolina
So Many Blessings of Homeschooling…
There were so many blessings that I had to make a list.
1. The Catholic faith is woven into every subject and every facet of learning.
2. Being able to customize each child’s curriculum (I have two who are neurodivergent). I have both had a child master a concept in four days when the lesson plans take two weeks and have had to slow down and work a bit longer for the concept to “click.” Homeschooling allows for this kind of teaching.
3. My husband and I are in charge of what is taught, not a school board with its arbitrary calendar, lesson plans, mandatory tests, and values that are directly contrary to my family’s.
4. We have so much more time together as a family. This extra time has built a closeness and deep love that would be very hard to foster if we spent all day away from each other.
5. We have more free time, which we can spend serving others, playing games, camping, hiking, or any number of other activities.
6. A truly second-to-none education.
7. Paired with closely monitored electronics and no social media, my kids have enjoyed a peaceful childhood without bullying, peer pressure, and overwhelming stress, which are so common today.
8. Seton especially promotes independent learning. My kids don’t wait for me to tell them their next assignment. They are learning how to learn and think critically.
Kristen Brown, Virginia
Blessings Abound Year After Year…
With twenty-five years of homeschooling to reflect on and to choose my biggest blessings, I can recount so many.
Should I rank my biggest blessings to be the fact that we have been able to go to daily Mass and frequent confession for several years now?
Or should I rank my biggest blessing as the fact that I have been able to choose what and how to teach my children in a way that suits them best? Should I rank my biggest blessing that my children all have good relationships with each other and us, their parents?
All in all, I think it can be summed up that the biggest blessings have been a shared life together. Our daily lives, our faith, our memories, and all that it entails have been shared together for twenty-five years.
I am so grateful for the choice we made to homeschool our children. The blessings abound year after year.
Susan Brock – North Carolina
