While listening to Carol Barnier speak this past weekend at the Kalamazoo Homeschool Expo, I LOL-ed at a very common (and frequent) scenario that a majority of homeschooling moms encounter. I know I have experience it. It is this...
When people find out that I homeschool, the most common reaction sounds something like: "Oh, I could never to that! I just don't have...... (wait for it)........(you know what's coming next because you've either heard it or said it yourself)......the PATIENCE!" Yes. Exactly. That is the very reason I DO homeschool, because I'm LOADED with patience! In fact, I have SO MUCH of it that I didn't know what else to do with it. Homeschooling seemed the answer to my pesky superfluous patience problem.
I, personally, have nothing against people that don't homeschool. (For now, we still seem to have the right in this country to parent our children as we choose.) But if a lack of patience is a legitimate excuse to NOT do something, then nothing would get done...
"I just don't have the patience..."
- ...to change my baby's diaper
- ...to go to the grocery store
- ...to do the laundry
- ...to go to work
- ...to discipline my children
- ...to fill up the gas tank
- ...to mow the lawn
- ...to take a shower...wash my hair...put on deodorant...brush my teeth...
I've found this excuse quite insufficient especially when it comes out of the mouth of a Christian. So Galatians 5:22 holds no power? This passage says that the believer DOES have patience and can actually GROW in it. Shocking.
But, perhaps Paul was misguided when he wrote that...
Love it and SO TRUE! It seems the idea is that if you homeschool you have the patience of some one that is superhuman and my other favorite...you CAN stay home (like nobody else can). It seems to me that if you homeschool you must also be rich. ;-) Truth is, just like everything else, it is all about choices.
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ReplyDeleteNow that is just mean. I know have a lot more patience than anyone else I know :) I had someone make the comment that I was lucky because I did not have to worry about prepping my kids for kindergarten and 1st grade...no, I just have to handle the next 13yrs of their education. I have it a lot easier.
ReplyDeleteIf I've heard it once I've heard it a thousand times. You must have alot of patience. I have been homeschooling 12 years(seems like more). In a few months, I will graduate my oldest. If anything in my life has taught me patience; it has been homeschooling. Nothing can trigger your flesh more than your own flesh and blood:)
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