thanks!!!! i am still tickled wo!!! so nice having to not give answers and feeling like i am an open book or being questioned for a criminal act, wo.
may we strive to do the will of god in all we do in our lives martin family ----- Original Message ----- From: "helen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <RecipesAndMore@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:04 AM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: a differnt viewpoint from a family member finally > > Glad you got some positive feedback from a family member and one who > didn't > ask you a zillion questions. > > Keep up the good work. > > Helen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilyn L. DeWeese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <RecipesAndMore@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:51 AM > Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: a differnt viewpoint from a family member > finally > > > Hi Trin, > > I know it must have made you feel better to hear some positive thoughts. > I'm glad for you. > > Keep up the good work. > > Marilyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: trinh martin > To: RecipesAndMore@googlegroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:57 AM > Subject: [RecipesAndMore] a differnt viewpoint from a family member > finally > > > hi > we for the past week and a half have had company from vietnam. i have to > admit, before they came here, i was quite nervous on what they would think > etc of my home schooling my children, having 4 kids, both parents being > blind det etc. the reason for all this wondering is because i hear so > much > from my family how of a mistake i have made choseing home schooling, > having > children, being married to someone blind, depriving my children etc etc. > i > have even had it thrown in my face how i am commiting a horrible sin with > the choices i made in parenting, home schooling etc. > anyway, when my great uncles, great ant, and 2 cousins arrived 2 fridays > ago, i wondered on and off what they would think. > curtis took the children to the fair that next day and i was asked to > come > along to have a lunch with the family. anna-lynn and i tagged along. not > soon after we left, my great aunt turned around and asked me when the kids > were going to school. i repled that i am teaching them. she thought i > meant that i was just teaching for the summer. she again asked when they > would head off to school. i told her that i was teaching at home. she > then > thought i was teaching them till they were ready for school. i replied > that > i am home schooling which means that antyhing they would learn at school, > i > am teaching myself. she didn't say much more about it. > my cousin got into the conversation and asked how do i do this? she > surprisingly was excited and very agreeable. she explained to her mom > that > these kids will maybe never enter a school system or if they do, they may > enter later in their elemetary years or high school etc. she told my aunt > that was such a great idea becuase the kids would have one on one time, > not > be distracted by toher children, be able to learn and do their tasks > faster, > have more caring and compassionate thoguhts for people, in general, be > very > well rounded. she had said that she noticed how clever and fast the kids > pick up and she saw how they loved their little sister. she thought home > schooling was a great idea and she said since i am the mom, only i would > know what the needs of my kids were!!!! > i was so astonished and awe strucken/. i have never really had any > relatives feel that home schooling was good for the kids!!!! i always > heard > of the kid snot socializing, my blindess playing a huge role, me depriving > my children of everything and the kids becoming drug attics etc etc. > my mom heard our conversation, but she chose to ignore it all!!!! i was > really hoping that it would have penatrated and that she would have been > proud to hear that someone in the family thought home schooling was a > great > thing!!!!! oh well. > now in september, my grandma from my mom's side of the family will be > here > from vietnam. i don't know what she will percieve!!! > oh, when my cousin did come down to visit, she asked if the kids had doen > their work yet. i told her that we had got up early that day and had done > a > few odds and ends. she never tested the kids, she never asked what we > did, > how do i kow the kids are staying on task, how do i teach this or that!!!! > > may we strive to do the will of god in all we do in our lives > martin family > may we strive to do the will of god in all we do in our lives > martin family > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
