There are more homeschoolers across the nation than private schoolers! This indicator of a successful education is supported by the fun fact that colleges are apologetically recruiting homeschoolers because they are prepared to be further educated. The increase of online methods being adopted by public schools apparently does not prepare a child to think for themselves or come up with unique and new ideas.
Being a main stream educational option has given pause for reflection of the richly woven threads of our homeschool lives. By keeping our children at home and educating the whole child, we integrate our primary roles – spouse, parent, teacher, friend- and build stronger grounded lives. Lives that draw others to discover what gives us our joy, edge, and vitality. Call it what you will, but what a deeply involved and engaged homeschool creates in their family is appealing and noticeable from a distance. In our undertaking to educate at home, we lay ourselves down to be opened by His grace and will, and in doing so, we unexpectedly discover that we are expanded by that very same grace.
WE ARE HERE TO HELP!
There are so many choices in curriculum, co ops, programs, on line classes, dual enrollment, etc that beginning this journey has become mind boggling due to excess. I am thankful that it was laid upon my heart to create Faithful Scholars into a realized vision of supporting and serving families as they navigate this mainstream educational option. By empowering, and encouraging home schoolers through FS Village community, our workshops, retreats, newsletters, live events, and member’s only offerings you are confirmed as a parent and grown as an educator rather than being made to feel that you are blindly trying to fit into some strict set of standards or pile of material that misses the beauty of educating the whole child.
Each day is alive with the possibilities, the expectations, of revelation, new, challenges and joys. Our beings respond with praise and rejoicing in our everyday comings and goings whether we plan this or not. Taking this organic movement into the main lanes of educational options was never a goal, but it has brought a peace. Peace that homeschooling has become understood to the point that allowing our children to play outside off and on each day is no longer a worry and meeting someone in the grocery store comes with praise rather than grilling. Our lives are compelling and mysterious to those yearning for more. People see us coming from a long way off and wonder how to get some of the energy they see approaching. Stopping in their tracks they observe our exchanges with our spouse, our children and others; contemplating what has caused us to laugh with pure delight!
FLEXIBILITY AND FREEDOM!
Most homeschoolers begin feeling like they want to know that someone is telling them exactly what to do and how to do it, but after a hot minute they realize that having freedom and flexibility to make changes as they see needed for each child is the breath of homeschool life for a parent. Becoming aware of this option of being rescued from another person’s schedules, expectations, deliberations, and demands we find that those seemingly secure interactions pale in comparison to our integrated life of family, learning, and play. FS empowers you with the ability to navigate the full range of homeschool curricula, methods, and approaches from unschooling to eclectic schooling to classical schooling to anywhere on either end and in between. We understand the richness of each approach. We celebrate the fact that each child needs a unique educational plan. We are able to coach you to perform well using any method.
THE SOUND OF JOY!
Faithful Scholars grooves to the beat of a different drummer that enables us (by ‘all’, I refer to my amazing, supportive Better Half, our children, the incredible FS staff, and a top notch IT Team!) to serve you beyond the norm, right where you are and moving toward where you want to go. The first thing we do is connect you with FS Village (which serves homeschoolers across the nation) where you can use the search bar to seek so many great chats, seminars, and other content as well as DM, post, share wisdom, and gain wisdom from mentors and peer parents.
Ultimately many have decided that they too want the brilliant, kind, curious outlook that they witness in a homeschooling family….and they come hoping to discover the same deep well of love, patience, expectation that can’t help but draw each of us one step closer. You may be tired, lacking your patience, yearning for a few more minutes of sleep, feeling burdened by lessons left incomplete, but before all of this, and in spite of all of this, you embody the peace, contentment, and joy that others seek! You have chosen wisely. Now engage deeply and set your pace to one that you can manage as you ignite the fire of true education!