It can be a real challenge to figure out what your child is passionate about and even harder to discover their God-given calling. But there are things we, as homeschool parents, can do.
Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who knows exactly what lights your kid’s fire. If that’s you, there are some really awesome ways to fan those flames.
At C2C, we are passionate about helping kids ignite and fuel their passion. We believe the best homeschool education is reverse-engineered with the end-result in mind.
Kids are not containers that we pour information into. They are hunter-gathers who collect information and choose what to keep and what to discard.
Our role, as home educators, is to guide them on their journey with the primary goal of helping them BECOME all that God created them to be.
And as every learner is different, every education is also unique.
“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” –Deuteronomy 6:6-7
God gave children to parents and commissioned them to teach their children diligently throughout the whole day, all the way until they lie down to sleep. Sounds like homeschooling!
Our role is to guide, coach, and mentor in every aspect of life. We should be their greatest source of influence–their wise counsel. Parenting is the art of balancing rules (structure, standards, guidelines) with relationship (connecting deeply at the heart level).
Our children learn how to relate to their Creator in the way they relate to us. And that means, incredible, fervent and effective prayer on our end.
You were not called to homeschool. Your children were called to be homeschooled. It’s all about them and their journey to their God-given calling.
With the wisdom of heaven and Holy Spirit guidance, we can follow the interests and inclinations of our children as we design a God-shaped path for their education.
So many of us arrive at parenting with our own gaping trauma wounds. These wounds are the landing strips for the enemy’s lies, and the lies we believe deeply affect the way we homeschool our kids.
A strong homeschool curriculum needs to include a plan and a strategy for the homeschool parent to heal his or her story so that we can educate our children from a place of wholeness and truth and not a place of woundedness and lies.
Have you trekked up this homeschool mountain a few times? Have you learned how to avoid the pitfalls and enjoy the views on your way to the summit?
You might be ready to be a sherpa for the new generation of homeschool parents.
Starting support groups, co-ops, learning pods, or microschools, organizing field trips, special events, and activities all take some skill.
We can help.
As we plan for a new school year, one of our primary goals should be to help our kids become more and more independent. That looks different at each age/grade level.
Paper and time are two beasts that need to be tamed for a successful school year. We have tools that can help!
Your student might love mermaids, but that doesn't mean she is interested in marine biology. With some observation and conversation, we can help our kids navigate the nuances of developing passion.
We are Jenni & Jody, and we hope you’ll think of us as your friends. It’s so easy to confuse our names, so we will do our best to introduce you to each of us separately on our About page, but it’s okay if you mix us up. It happens all the time, and because of that, most people call us J & J or The J Team.
We always do our best to be the real girls, which means you can expect raw honesty. You can also expect gentle but firm empowerment, and tried and true, practical tools (which really work) that you can use in your real life with your real kids from two very real homeschool moms.
Between our two families, we have 10 children, including one on the autism spectrum, 3.75 grandchild, and more than 45 combined years of homeschooling experience.
So as you can imagine, with all that, we have a boatload of BIG success stories and amazing testimonies, and we have a boatload of EPIC failures. But the cool thing about raising our kids and educating them with God at the helm is that even some of the biggest failures have ended with beautiful testimonies.
~ The J Team