Thursday, March 29, 2012

Remember when


A couple of days ago I received a fantastic reminder of how far I have traveled in my quest to home educate my children. I love reminders like this,the type that if you weren't alert and ready for it would pass you right by.

We had a piano tuner come to our home, a very nice older gentlemen. He was excited to hear that we homeschool and explained that his wife homeschools their grandchildren. This was very exciting for me and right away I wanted to meet her. A part of my twenty year vision is to help and support my children with the education of my grandchildren. He then began to talk about how he wanted to take his grandson on as an apprentice to his piano tuning business. Fantastic, what great ideals, I could picture my husband teaching his grandchildren how to build with wood.

After a few minutes of discussion he asked me what I did when my kids complained about school. He said leaving his house this morning was difficult because of the groans and moans of his grandchildren, "Why do we have to do school?" "I don't want to do school!" "I hate school, can't we just play?" These were the words coming from a 7 year old and 5 year old. He said he was so tired of it he told them, "This isn't your life!" He then went on to tell me how he yelled at them until they quietly got to their studies and began working.

MEMORIES IN THE CORNER OF MY MIND.....
Oh, how I remember these days of requiring. Constant battles and endless complaining. Guess what, now school is fun, the kids look forward to the day. They are always telling their friends how much fun school is. One boy asked Spencer, "Do you have Spring Break?" Spencer replied, "No, but everyday is fun in our school." What a huge achievement for me!

Since we have been doing TJED the kids have taken over the responsibility of their own educations and are self driven. Mom is no longer the driving force, no more tears, whines, complaining and all of that other jazz. It is a wonderful thing!

I explained this method of Leadership Education to the piano tuner and he was very skeptical. He nodded, gave a lot of what abouts and went on with his work. He left my home 1 1/2 hours later and was astonished with the goings on of our home. He said that he thought I might be on to something. I couldn't take credit and guided him to a place that he could learn everything he needed to know to bring our spirit of learning into his home. I wish the same for you! Take this journey with me, find out how to guide your children in learning to self educate and become leaders in training.

TJED ONLINE

No comments:

Post a Comment