What about their "social life"?

I have heard many times, "What about their social life"?  What about it?  Do I want my children learning from their peers?  Do I want my children learning about the facts of life through children?  Do I want my children to be exposed to foul language and dirty talk at a young age?  NO!  Now days "social" life can either make or break a child.  I don't want the evil of this world to influence my children.  I don't want my children learning disrespect or unkindness from bully's or rude children.  
While attending school when I was a young girl I dealt with rude children.  Bully's to be exact.  Children are rude!  A child's whole life could be ruined if adults/parents don't step in and stop bullying.  I feel like my parents saved my life when they brought me home from school.  My life could have been so much different than the way it turned out.  My social life while I was in school was horrible!  I was shy and got bullied by rude children.
It is true I didn't have many friends when I was young and after being home taught.  But when I was in school I had only a handful of friends, if any.  School did nothing for my social life.

Home schooled children aren't always just home with their mothers and siblings.  They have other HS friends who they get together with to learn and to play.  Some HS children also socialize with PS children, through other after school activities such as sports, scouts, church functions and activities.

Social lives for home schooled children can be better than some public schooled children at times.

Why I chose to HS

I have no degree, I haven't been schooled on how to teach.  Why then, do I teach my children?  My entire reasons why is unknown.  I do it because it's what I feel is best.  Best for me, best for my children.  I feel that they need me.  They need their mother.  Am I the best teacher?  NO.  But I am their mother.  I know them best.  I know their style of learning, what's best for them individually.  They are my children and I know them.  If I struggle the Lord helps me to know what to do to pass the struggles.  Is it easy?  NO!  Definitely not!  Do we fight and argue?  Of course, who doesn't?  But we work through our struggles.  We learn to get past them.  We learn and grow.

I Love my children, with all my heart.  They are my life!  They are my everything.  I want to be there for them.  Through thick and thin.  I want them to know that I am here for them whenever they need me.  Whenever they are struggling.  I want to teach them all I can now before they go out into this world.  Now is when they need me.  Now is when they want me.  I want to teach them everything I know before I send them out to "build their houses", to face the big bad wolf.  I want to prepare them for life.  They will have plenty of "life" experiences in their lives.  In due time.  I want to "shield" them while they are young.  :)  Keep them under my wing before they take their first flight.

So why do I do HS?  They are only young once.  I will never have this experience with my child ever again!

Feeling inadequate

Some days I just want to throw in the towel.  I do.  I feel inadequate to teach my children so many things that this world requires me to teach.  I don't feel like the way the world wants things to be is important.  No I don't.  I feel like what is important is teaching about Christ.  How to be like him.  That, to me, is the most important of all.  If someone goes about their life not caring about Christ, or others, to me that is the worst thing anyone could possibly do, or be.  I want my children to learn to be like Christ.  To love like him.  To be loving and kind like him.  Why isn't this the most important thing in our world today?  Why don't we teach or children to be like Christ?  Why is the worldly things so much more important in our world now days?  Christ is my life, my center.  I want my children to feel that way too.  I want my children to think, WWJD?  When they are confronted with things of this world, temptations.  

Yes, Knowledge is important.  The most important thing?  NO!  To be learned is good, but to be learned and to not KNOW the Savior?  That is the worst sin, in my eyes.  

I know that to be in this world we do need to learn and to be the best we can be.  I believe that to do so we need The Lord.  He can help us to be who we are meant to be.  To be the best we can.  To know him first then we can succeed in all we do.  Trust him then all will fall into place!  

I want my children to know this.  If they Trust God, and do His will they will be successful!  Of course we do need to do our part. Faith without works is dead.  So therefore I want to teach my children to read, to write.  To serve!  To learn all they can in this world.  But Christ comes first!!  And foremost.  

To teach my children reading, writing and arithmetic, I need the Lord!  I don't know everything.  I teach what I know and what I don't know I learn.  I am not perfect.  But I am doing my best.  I am working everyday to do better.  Some days I don't have motivation.  Some days I am ready to conquer the world. 

The Lord makes up for what I lack.  He is my rock and my Savior.  When I can't do what everyone expects of me he carries me through.  He helps me when I falter.  He lifts me when I'm down.  If I didn't have him in my life, I would have NOTHING.  He is my EVERYTHING!  

Who am I?

Who am I?

I am a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife.

I cook, I clean, I teach.

I love, comfort, I coach, I referee.

I am a mother.  I home teach my children.

I am a daughter of God!  I am a Mormon.