Today, I’m over at The Mommy Journey, as a guest contributor to Mommy Chris’s special features section, Mommy Talks. This year, Mommy Chris is featuring different homeschooling moms, and I am thrilled, honored and humbled to be one of them! 😉
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I answered a few questions about our family’s homeschooling journey, and I wish I had brought my answers along with me to our interview on ABS-CBN/ANC last week, as I feel like I had wanted to say so many things but wasn’t able to think straight most of the time, as I was focused on keeping the kids behaved during the interview! LOL!
Anyway, here’s my answer to Chris’s question on why we chose to homeschool our kids. 🙂
My husband and I first heard about homeschooling when I was still pregnant with our eldest child. We were still based as missionaries for CFC in Timor Leste (East Timor) then, and had come home to Manila to attend CFC’s 25th Anniversary celebration. One of the events we attended was a pro-life conference, where the speakers included people from Human Life International in the US. We were intrigued when it was mentioned that one of the things people could do to support the pro-life movement was to “homeschool your kids, if possible.” We eventually also heard a little bit more about homeschooling from Catholic lay preacher Bo Sanchez, who homeschools his two kids along with his wife, Marowe, and founded the Catholic Filipino Academy.
As our son grew, we felt drawn to homeschooling and did our research on it and prayed about it and researched and prayed some more. I guess the turning point came when we tried having him sit in during a few preschool classes at one of the schools in Timor, just to try it out. After those “failed attempts,” we realized that he was learning more at home than what he could learn in that school. (I wrote a blog post about that here, if you want to read it, hehe!)
Now that our kids are a bit older, I would have to say that our main reasons for homeschooling are:
a. We believe that this is God’s call for us at this particular point in our lives. (I wrote about that here, teehee!)
b. We want to pass on the faith and values that we hope will bring our kids (and ourselves) to our eternal home in heaven.
c. We want to cherish the time with our children while we still can, and make the most of their childhood years.
b. We want to pass on the faith and values that we hope will bring our kids (and ourselves) to our eternal home in heaven.
c. We want to cherish the time with our children while we still can, and make the most of their childhood years.
Now, if only I had actually said these things during the ANC interview!! Hahahaha! Anyway, I answered a few other questions aside from this one on Chris’s blog and I hope you’ll be able to take the time to read my answers — just click here!
Blessings on us all! 😉 And to my readers in the Philippines, stay safe, warm, dry and healthy!
P.S. Let’s say a special prayer for all those affected by the recent rains and flooding here in the Philippines! And do our part to help in whatever way we can! 😉
