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Real Life Superhero Homeschool Mom: Protecting and Preparing
Meet homeschool teacher at Peebly Christian Academy, and mom Patricia Bryan. She’s schooling her 5 daughters, a 17 yr old who is in the 12th grade, a 14 yr old in the 9th grade, a 10 yr old in the 4th grade, an 8 yr old in the 2nd, and a 6 yr old in the 1st grade. When their oldest was 5 they enrolled her in public PreK school. It wasn’t long before they realized that the district was not the ideal place for their daughter to be educated. “We were having a lot of trouble with bullying and being physically beat up. A 5 yr old girl should not be getting beat up in…
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With Wisdom She Seeks to Provide a Custom Education for each Child
Lisa Wilen is homeschool mom and teacher at Joyful Journey Christian Homeschool where she is homeschooling 2 of her 3 children, all girls. Ashlynn age 17, and Holly age 11 both are educating at home, while Jenna age 13 is attending their local public school. When Lisa’s first daughter, Ashlynn was 4 she was already able to read fluently. Lisa was concerned that kindergarten in the public school would be too boring for her. Lisa realized that she had invested time and energy teaching her at home, she wondered, Why not continue? Deciding to take it one year at a time, they proceeded with home education as their educational choice. She…
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She’s Trusting God to Supply Her Needs
I’d like to introduce you to homeschool mom, Dawn Cole. She is mom to 8 children. The oldest has graduated, the youngest is too young for school. That leaves 6 children that she is currently homeschooling at Cornerstone Christian Academy, they are in grades 12th, 10th, 7th, 4th, 3rd, and 1st. That is certainly quite an array of ages/grades to cover in one academic year isn’t it? When her oldest child was about to turn 5, Dawn dreaded the idea of sending her little girl away from home for school. Couple that with seeing others whose kids were struggling in that environment she tells me that her inner voice kept…
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She Approaches Education from a Global Perspective
Meet Tassie. Her story has inspired me for years. Why? Because she doesn’t think of her home and family as a house with four walls located in one place in the world. Rather, in my opinion, she sees all of the world as her home. Tassie Helene Smith and her family, though American, lived abroad for many years. Due to language barriers she and her husband determined that the best course for education of their two daughters was to homeschool. Yet, both Tassie and her husband worked full-time outside of the home during those years. Her Global Perspective She and her husband Kevin worked as English teachers in a University…
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Keeping Her Eye Focused on the Values she wants to Teach
Today I’d like to introduce you to homeschool mom LaBeth Brewer. I was privileged to meet her in real life last month at an annual church lectureship my family attends in Tennessee. She and her family were so sweet and it was an honor to meet her. Let me tell you a bit about LaBeth’s family and why she’s a superhero homeschool mom. Learning is important in the Brewer household, in fact, in the last few years every member of the Brewer family has been in school in one sense or another. LaBeth’s husband was a school of preaching student, LaBeth is in grad school and of course the children are…
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Bottom Line, She Wanted a Different Path for Her Children
Real Life Superhero Homeschool Mom, Fee Rocha I’d like to introduce you to Fee Rocha, Christian, wife, mom, and painter, just to name a few of the roles she fulfills. She is mom to 3 children, an 8th grade 13 year old girl, a 4th grade 9 year old boy, and a 3rd grade 8 year old boy. She is homeschooling her children in the Rocha Learning Academy. Fee likes the challenge of homeschooling and thinks that being able to make school scheduling fit her family’s schedule, is ideal for her family. She thinks that homeschooling has allowed her family to grow closer together. Why Fee is a Superhero Homeschool Mom Fee and…
