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!!!!
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