Before I home schooled my kids I had this thought in my head that I would always have to know more than they in order to properly instruct them.  I decided that even though I was seriously lacking in some education areas, like math, I knew enough to teach my five- year-old, so I dove in head-first.  I wondered though how I was going to keep up with the children’s increasing need to learn more than I knew.

Isn’t it peculiar that we allow fear of the future to sometimes hamper us in our walk with the Lord? I kept expecting the day to come when the kids would look at me and say, “Mom, you just aren’t smart enough for me anymore.”

After home schooling for a couple of years though, my thinking changed.  I realized that I was learning right along with the children, and they didn’t even know it.  But they would be able to catch my excitement as I learned something new.  As time passed I decided to use my lack of knowledge to my advantage. 

If I was feeling a bit burned out in our home schooling, I would think about a subject or topic that I wanted to study.  Then we would all study it together.  This would fuel excitement in my children as well as show them that learning is a life long endeavor.

I often comment that being a home-schooling parent enables me to fill in the holes that were left after my own formal education was completed. Hopefully I will have made such an impact on my own children that they too will home school their children, then they can also fill in any holes they may have.