Dear
Homeschooling Mom,
Are you
feeling overwhelmed with cooking, doing laundry, planning lessons,
raising children, and keeping up with your husband? Take heart!
You're not alone, and there is hope.
Homeschooling mother Vickie Farris, with the help of her daughter
Jayme Metzgar, wrote this book to mothers like you.
I have no
twelve-step, one-size-fits-all formula for producing great kids,
nor do I believe that such a formula exists. While I will share
with you some of the practical aspects of how we handled our
schooling, housework, and childrearing, I want you to know that I
am not proposing that every family do exactly what we did.
My main
reason for writing this book is to share with you several specific,
basic spiritual lessons I have learned over the past seventeen
years of home schooling. These were the truths that kept me going
on the days when I felt like quitting, and which enabled me to
model the trust in God that I wanted to see in my children.
In a warm,
conversational tone, Vickie shares encouragement, ideas, and wisdom
from her years of homeschooling her 10 children. She begins by
describing the Farris family's initial decision to homeschool. She
then discusses challenges, shares practical homeschool and family
life tips, and assures mothers that they can indeed fulfill God's
calling to homeschool their children.
Great for
mothers new to homeschooling or longtime homeschoolers needing
encouragement and ideas, this 287-page paperback will remind you
that the joy of your calling as a wife and mother far outweighs the
struggles. Be encouraged: "The reward is well worth the price--and
then some."
Vickie is
the wife of HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris. They have graduated 9 of
their children from their homeschool and continue to teach their
youngest at home. They have 12 grandchildren, several of which are
now being taught at home.
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Product Details
Authors: Vickie Farris & Jayme Farris Metzgar
Paperback: 287 pages
Publisher: B & H (2000)
ISBN: 978-0-8054-2586-4
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