Let's talk about each of our philosophies of homeschooling.

Jessica:

So my homeschooling philosophy at the beginning was more like how not to

homeschool because they did it all wrong. I had the wrong motives with the wrong "hardtitude" and that's

why we had such a rough rough beginning. At the time my Philosophy was "I can

do it better. I can teach better than the public schools. I can teach my children better than an entire school of professionally trained teachers.

Now as time has evolved my pride is being stripped and stripped away, thank God, my homeschooling philosophy is to give my kids what they need right when they need it. It is to meet their needs and just come and meet them where they are. That is my goal of homeschooling.

"My homeschooling philosophy is to give my kids what they need

 right when they need it."

Jenn:

I am educating for I don't know what. I know God has a plan for my children. I know that I don't

know what that plan is. I can see their strengths  and weaknesses. There's little hints or big hints but

I don't really know what His plan is for them.  I'm educating the whole child: their mind, their heart, and

their soul. So we focus on their emotional education, their psychological education, their religious education and then of course their academics. All of that is encompassed in homeschooling for me.

My kids might end up wanting to become a doctor or a lawyer. I want them educated so they

are well prepared to go into those fields and be the best doctor or lawyer they can be. If they want to be a mailman or a construction worker or whatever, I want them to be the best

garbage collector or whatever and be happy with the life that they have chosen and God has

chosen with them. My hope is they would have all of these skills and abilities in a plethora of different avenues. Most important, though, is that their relationship with Christ and their own dignity and sense of self would be intact.

 "I homeschool for . . . I don't know what which mostly means everything.

I'm educating the whole person so academics is a big part of that

but it is just a part."

What is YOUR homeschool philosophy? What is the driving force that guides why and how you homeschool?