Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: April 30 2014 at 8:24am | IP Logged Quote kristacecilia
Sally,

That was really lovely and very comforting to read! You and Martha are really on to something with this sabbatical idea, I think.

This part really spoke to me in particular:

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The overall difference, I think, that the homeschooling paradigm makes, is that the locus of authority over children's education, wherever it's happening on a daily basis, is at home. *Parents* make the decisions. *Parents* decide what is best for a given child, or for their whole family, at a given season. That's precisely why we do have room for these kinds of discussions in a place like this: because, in the light of our faith, we have stepped into, and remain in, that paradigm.

(eta: The analogy that occurs to me here is that idea of curriculum as merely a tool, not a master. You can expand that to include brick-and-mortar school as a curriculum *tool* that you might opt to use, for the short or long term, without viewing it as the force that runs your life)


It's been interesting, because I would still call myself a homeschooler, which is weird when all your school aged children are not home, but in school. It's that mentality, though, that this is my job and I am just currently outsourcing it to the local school while I take some time for myself, though. I am still monitoring their curriculum, adding things in at home (they don't teach cursive!?), teaching them their catechism... it doesn't feel like a lot has changed in terms of the dynamic of our family, just that they are there doing their math and reading most of the day.

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