PrincipledMom™

It’s not about me (but you already knew that)

Reading the latest post from my BPA buddy Renae at Life Nurturing Education snapped me back to reality. As home educating parents, with the best of intentions we can get things a little off-kilter. Because we want our children to be the best and because their success depends on us as parent/teachers, it is easy to get caught up in ourselves a little too much.  So we navel gaze and question our curriculum choices and our teaching styles and our schedules and our lesson plans and our subject choices and... whew! We are so close and so invested that we can mistakenly place the emphasis in the wrong place.

I was reminded today that this thing called home education is not about me. It's not nearly so much about my teaching style or my lesson plans. It's about my kids. It's about what God wants me to do for them and getting down to business. When I keep this in the front of my brain then I am able to push through the fear that I'm not enough and that I'm not doing it right. I can push through the laziness and the doubt and the stress. When the focus is where it belongs the right things get magnified and learning takes place. Not planning, learning. Not talking, learning. Not fear or stress or frustration but learning.

I look forward to this week because I see it in a new way. I'm just the facilitator. With God's help I am able to keep the focus where it belongs--on the little lambs entrusted to me. So let's get busy learning!