Dear New Home School Moms,

We are still in the process of re-scheduling the meeting we missed in April, so be patient a bit longer please.

Last Saturday my oldest son received his Master’s Degree from Baylor. It was a very moving moment for me. I am not the first mom in the world to have her home schooled son receive a Master’s Degree – but it was my first.

My husband and I were very proud – we struggled home schooling him. He was a high-energy, bright boy – and I always felt inadequate to be his teacher. So my husband very plainly made me use workbooks – simple and cheap School of Tomorrow workbooks – and told me to be the overseer of his learning and not the teacher. This meant he taught himself at his own pace – and even took his own tests – grading them himself with the answer key. If he got more than 2 wrong, he had to show me – otherwise – he just moved on to the next chapter.

My friends were more hands-on with their children’s home school and thought I was really out there being so hands-off with my children’s academics. But it worked for us. All three of my children are self-motivated, high-achievers. When my children came to me and said – “I don’t know how to do this”, my reply was, “read the directions”. If they said, “I already did and I still don’t know how to do this”, my reply was, “read them again”. They soon figured out that I was not the source for the academic answers. So they busied themselves reading and re-reading to find the answers to the questions they missed on the tests – which they graded themselves. (This went for math and advanced math too!)

But what I was very hands-on with was their spiritual training. Our jobs are not to raise academic geniuses but Godly men and women for the Kingdom of God.

My son has a Master’s Degree – that is good and makes us proud. But more than that, he loves God and seeks to do His will in his daily life. That is what will set him apart and give him a unique place in this life and in the next.

Matthew 6:33 says, “Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added…”

I Corinthians 10:31 says, “in whatsoever you do – do to the Glory of God”. Teach your children to do all things to the Glory of God and they will excel – both spiritually and academically.
Deborah Korpi, Coordinator
New Home School Families