Decades-Old Views on Homeschooling - Who is Really Caged?


I was always deadset against homeschooling and the reason for my views against homeschooling had been based on one girl in our high school who had been homeschooled all the way up until they released her into our high school.  She was weird, too smart for the rest of us (haha) and just didn't know how to function in the environment or so it seemed.  I had let ONE homeschooled person influence my view of homeschooling as do so many others.

I know some people now that think just because you homeschool your child is living in a cage or something.  However, once you actually do homeschool (or get educated on the "current" homeschooling movement) you realize that they are actually LET OUT OF THE CAGE of the public indoctrination institutions!  You realize they are more outgoing than their peers, can talk with any age - from children to adult - and seem to have a better grip on "socialization" than those in the cage.  I've seen some local kids that attend PS and they can hardly even talk, much less socialize but they can sure act like some Hollywood starlet but that is another story........

Public school socialization teaches the kids to be like the other kids, mimicking the popular to try and be accepted.  They lose their own self and personality in their endeavor to be like Jennifer-Cooler.  In essence when released from the caged life of this improper socialization, they can't seem to function in the workplace with those that aren't their age.  So HOW did this 'associate with only your age' socialization really prepare them for REAL life?  It doesn't - very rarely will you ever been in a social situation of just those your age again, thus they are ill-prepared for real life scenarios and are those usually drawn to cliques.

There are some homeschoolers who have backward kids and its the parents fault!  If you keep that child locked up all day, everyday and never let them talk to people - then HELLO, you are setting them up for failure.  However, very rarely does that ever happen nowadays - maybe back in Grandpa's day when only one mom on the block homeschooled but honey, homeschoolers are growing at rapid speeds and we got several moms who homeschool on our block alone!  You can't take decades-old skewed views of homeschooling and demean those today who homeschool - things have changed!

This is where the homeschool group comes in.  The groups aren't just for the kids, in reality they are more for the MOMS!  I've met so many ladies in my area that are Christians, even though they don't attend my church - they exemplify Christ in their lives.  There is a camaraderie not only because we are all Christ-followers but also because we can relate to each other.  We are moms who give our lives to God, our home, husbands and children fully and we need to know there are others like us out there somewhere.

It is time to take off your worn decade-glasses so you can see that we are a group of moms who are training our children to make it in this world with a God-view, not an atheist-view!  Moms are producing better-educated children everyday that excel and even Ivy League schools are recruiting homeschoolers because, let's face it - a mom just knows her child and is the child's best teacher!  You can't look at my child and say she isn't socialized, on the contrary, she is one of the most social kids I know!  She invites complete strangers to church, talks them up at the store and doesn't fit the "caged-homeschooled" view that everyone claimed she would be.  So who is really caged?

Sitting Your Children Under False Teaching

Something that Pastor mentioned in conference caught my attention: "If God doesn't do it to you, why would you do it to your children?"  Got me thinking about public schools and how if God wouldn't want us to listen to lies and sit under false teachings then WHY do you sit your children under it?  If God teaches us He created all then WHY would you let your child be taught a science that says He is not the Creator?  Why are you putting your children under false teachings?  Why do you let your child be taught LIES?

Then I saw this today and wow......still so amazed and shocked that Christians would let their children be taught perverse things against God and his design:

The California Legislature could soon pass a bill that would require school textbooks and teachers to incorporate information on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans into their curriculum.

Explain to me please and back it up with God's Word on WHY you let your children be taught:

“This is teaching children from kindergarten on up that the homosexual, bisexual, transsexual lifestyle is something to admire and consider for themselves"

Read the rest here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/06/include-gay-rights-movement-info-california-textbooks-clears-hurdle/?test=latestnews

Yep, I didn't think you had any scripture to support children sitting under false, perverse, ungodly teaching!  If you won't be taught it then WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH would you let YOUR CHILDREN be taught it!?!?  It is so past time for people to open their closed eyes and realize before its too late and their children become teenagers and no longer want to be in the house of God.  Why do you wonder why they don't want God at 18 when you sat your child under false teaching, atheistic science that was against God and a Christ-less history for 12 years.......then what did you expect?  You trained them to be full of the world, its ideologies, social system and it should be no surprise to you that that is who they become.  You gave their mind over to error, you were too busy to teach them Bible at home - after all, you have to be the greatest Children's Church teacher but your own child doesn't know the Bible!  You missed the most important soul.......the one in your house.  Sadly, its a story I see too much of.

What does God have to say about it?

Train up a child in homesexual acceptance, atheistic science and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Oh wait......oops, my bad, I was writing the scripture as thus saith some Christians......let me get God's version:

Pro 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Well, obviously, God is NOT for training your child in the way it SHOULD NOT go but rather the way it SHOULD GO! Hmm, just doesn't jive with what some have said so who is wrong?

"Through the public school's precepts my child gets understanding: therefore they love every false way."

Oops, sorry about that again, I was reading out of that other version again, "The Tolerant Souls Version", *ahem*, let me get God's:

Psa 119:104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way
Tolerant Souls Version says:

Fathers, provoke your children to wrath; bring them up in the atheistic learning and admonition of the homosexual teacher.

God's version:

Eph 6:4  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord

Let's dig into some more of God's Word:

Isa 54:13  And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Jer 10:2  Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

1Co 15:33  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Parents, don't feel bad if you get criticized (as I do all the time), about homeschooling your child!  Your reward is coming when they won't depart from the house of God!!  It will be worth it when you child gets saved, filled the Holy Spirit and wants to go soul winning!!  It will be worth it when you can lay your head down at night knowing your children are going to Heaven with you!  It will be worth it when your child chooses to read their Bible instead of Facebook!!  Train them up in the way they should go and bring them in the instruction of the Lord!  Tell satan they aren't for sale!!!!

Freezer Guide Q & A

I have been putting these off for too long, sorry for those whose questions I'm not getting answered until now.  I tried to answer all the questions in the Freezer Cooking Guide but some I wasn't able to, so I will go ahead and answer all of them now.

Q. When I go to cook a meal that's already been frozen, what's the procedure? Do I need to defrost for a period of time, or simply pop the frozen dish in the oven?

A.  Here is what I do: for meals that have any type of pasta, I do a quick-thaw, which is basically filling up a large bowl or the sink with room temperature water and placing the ziploc bag in the water for 10-20 minutes or until you can break it up and get it out of the bag.  Then, I put it on a skillet on the stove and heat it till very hot, constantly turning as it starts to melt even more.  This way helps to prevent soggy pasta, and heating it on the skillet also helps to make the noodles crispier.  I've done it the other way and let it thaw for hours in the fridge or counter and its a soggy mess.

For meals that are casserole dishes, I simply take them from the freezer and put them in a pre-heated oven and bake.  With spaghetti and pizza sauce, you can either thaw them in the fridge or counter and heat them on the stove or microwave or you can quick-thaw them in water and heat them up.

Meals such as BBQ Beef and other sandwich fillings, taco fillings or those that go with rice, I simply let them thaw on the counter or in the fridge most of the day.  Then I will heat them on the stove, in the oven or sometimes the microwave in a microwaveable-safe glass dish.  You will find that while they are thawing, the sauces really help marinade the meat.  The meatloaf, for us, is way better after its been frozen then before!

Q.  Can rice be cooked and froze in the freezer?  I would also like to start making meals for up to at least two months and one of my family's favorite side dishes is rice. I know it would be nothing to cook it that day that we eat it but if it can be cooked in big patches and froze and then popped in the microwave that I would love to try it.

A.  Yes it can though we prefer freshly cooked rice.  If you want to freeze rice, simply cook it and then let it cool and transfer to ziploc bags.  You can portion it out but you don't have to because rice is easy to break off, even when frozen.  Do the same with rice as you would with pasta, do a quick-thaw and then heat, although I would think you would need to add some water to the rice when re-heating.

Q.  will you be putting a 3-4 month menu of how you divided and eat your delicious dinners?
how much do you spend at the store for cooking 3-4 months of meals at one time?
do you have any leftovers? if so what do you do with them? 

A.  The guide I did was geared to once a month cooking and all I can offer right now to show how I do the 3-4 month freezer cooking is my posts under freezer cooking on this blog.  It is so strange how it works out but it is cheaper for me to cook 3 months of meals at once, than if I did 1 month, 3 months in a row.  I think its because I buy larger sizes of certain ingredients and it seems to cost less.  I average about $150 for what I need to cook 3 months of freezer meals.  That is from getting my meat on sale, usually buy one get one deals and purchasing a lot of my other items directly from a farm, thereby cutting out the "middle man" and saving money! ;-)  I portion out our meals to last for one meal, so we don't have leftovers.

Q.  i would love your recipe for granola bars.  I have been looking but can't seem to find it. 

A.  I use this recipe.

The Window Through Which We Look

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood
The next morning while they were eating breakfast,
The young woman saw her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
“That laundry is not very clean,' she said.
“She doesn’t know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry,
The young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see
a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:

“Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this.”

The husband said,”I got up early this morning and
Cleaned our windows.”

And so it is with life.

What we see when watching others
Depends on the window through which we look.

Author Unknown