Prasing the Lord!
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:01 am
Girls, I have so many things I would like to Praise the Lord for, but I wanted to share specifically an answer to prayer that happened this week. This is the first year (in the eleven we have homeschooled) that I could not figure out what to do with my 16 year old son who is a junior. I want so much for him and yet because of his processing issue's and ADD he just does not work well independently for long periods of time. (though much MUCH better than when he was younger) Academics are not his strong point. His strength lies in his interpersonal skills.
I am actually getting ready to write an article for my homeschool support groups newsletter that talks about one of my greatest joys of home education being the relationship I have created with son who will graduate next year. He is such a blessing to me. Someone once said to me that it's not how much you enjoy being around your child, it's how much others enjoy them. Brandon takes the baton for this one. My friends love my Brandon. God has gifted him with an amazing relational quality. He is funny and engaging, but academically he has struggled through the years. He has to work so much harder to master area's his brothers get without much difficulty. I share this because I believe that all children are gifted, but in different ways. When we were new homeschoolers I used to focus on his weakness, rather than seeing the incredible gifts God had given him.
This year, a good friend who is a teacher and a tutor and has known Brandon since he was a little boy, felt the Lord lead her to tutor him in math and all she asked in return was that I make dinner for her family on Wednesday's. She teaches at a homeschool school called "Classical Conversations" which is a once a week school for home educator's where they meet and take higher academic coarses such as Latin, Logic, Debate, IEW, (creative writing) science, history, you name it. I would have never considered this for my Brandon as it's very academically challenging and requires up to 5 hours a day of homework. It's also quite expensive and non refundable if it doesn't work it requires a full year commitment.
But out of nowhere this friend of mine, who has been tutoring and knows my Brandon's academic level better than anyone outside of me called. She said that the Lord had been moving her to call me for a few days and that she just wanted to propose something for my husband and I to pray about. She felt that Brandon would really do well in this setting and that because she would be his teacher that she could help meet his special needs. She did tell me he probably shouldn't do latin or their math and that she would continue to work on math with him outside of school. She said that if my husband Scott and I felt like this would be a good situation she would work out a payment plan for us as well.
Let me say, that I would have never signed him up by myself for this school if the circumstances had been any different. (because of his special concerns) However, since my dear friend who already works with and knows Brandon will be his teacher and because she was able to work out finances and because she will drive him, (PTL, because it's quite a hike) we have decided to do it.
How does this tie into HOD? It does! You see, I have felt burdened trying to meet my Brandon's academic needs since he graduates next year. I was at a loss how to manage my time to prepare him for college while schooling my three younger sons with HOD. The Lord, who knows my tomorrows, totally worked it out. I can now just fully focus on my younger boys using our HOD programs and I can supervise my oldest, but I don't have to even think about curriculum or scheduling or teaching, as Classical Conversations does all that for me. I also believe that in two years of using this program he will be ready to go to our local college. God is so good!
Jeremiah 29:11 really shines here.., "For I know the plans I have for your children Mary, Plans to give them a HOPE and a FUTURE!"
I am actually getting ready to write an article for my homeschool support groups newsletter that talks about one of my greatest joys of home education being the relationship I have created with son who will graduate next year. He is such a blessing to me. Someone once said to me that it's not how much you enjoy being around your child, it's how much others enjoy them. Brandon takes the baton for this one. My friends love my Brandon. God has gifted him with an amazing relational quality. He is funny and engaging, but academically he has struggled through the years. He has to work so much harder to master area's his brothers get without much difficulty. I share this because I believe that all children are gifted, but in different ways. When we were new homeschoolers I used to focus on his weakness, rather than seeing the incredible gifts God had given him.
This year, a good friend who is a teacher and a tutor and has known Brandon since he was a little boy, felt the Lord lead her to tutor him in math and all she asked in return was that I make dinner for her family on Wednesday's. She teaches at a homeschool school called "Classical Conversations" which is a once a week school for home educator's where they meet and take higher academic coarses such as Latin, Logic, Debate, IEW, (creative writing) science, history, you name it. I would have never considered this for my Brandon as it's very academically challenging and requires up to 5 hours a day of homework. It's also quite expensive and non refundable if it doesn't work it requires a full year commitment.
But out of nowhere this friend of mine, who has been tutoring and knows my Brandon's academic level better than anyone outside of me called. She said that the Lord had been moving her to call me for a few days and that she just wanted to propose something for my husband and I to pray about. She felt that Brandon would really do well in this setting and that because she would be his teacher that she could help meet his special needs. She did tell me he probably shouldn't do latin or their math and that she would continue to work on math with him outside of school. She said that if my husband Scott and I felt like this would be a good situation she would work out a payment plan for us as well.
Let me say, that I would have never signed him up by myself for this school if the circumstances had been any different. (because of his special concerns) However, since my dear friend who already works with and knows Brandon will be his teacher and because she was able to work out finances and because she will drive him, (PTL, because it's quite a hike) we have decided to do it.
How does this tie into HOD? It does! You see, I have felt burdened trying to meet my Brandon's academic needs since he graduates next year. I was at a loss how to manage my time to prepare him for college while schooling my three younger sons with HOD. The Lord, who knows my tomorrows, totally worked it out. I can now just fully focus on my younger boys using our HOD programs and I can supervise my oldest, but I don't have to even think about curriculum or scheduling or teaching, as Classical Conversations does all that for me. I also believe that in two years of using this program he will be ready to go to our local college. God is so good!
Jeremiah 29:11 really shines here.., "For I know the plans I have for your children Mary, Plans to give them a HOPE and a FUTURE!"
) I am praying for God to put something else in it's place that is all organized for me in an HOD type of way. And I know that something else must be divinely inspired because I do not see it available and I can't imagine anyone else doing it in a HOD type of way. But I am still praying. 
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