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.
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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