“Mama” Better Bring Her A- Game!

January 11th, 2008

I am embracing my time with our children.  It is a precious gift.  People ask, “How long will you do this?” and “Doesn’t this overwhelm you?”. When they were all 3 and under, I was loosing my mind.  People would ask if I was going to home school and I would almost go into hysterical laughter.  Then they grew a bit more independent and I came to realize I LOVE being with them and I just quit fighting God and asking every one I knew what they thought and just said “Yes, Lord!”  Those are 2 very important words for me. I think I will get them tattooed on my person somewhere!

Being present to them, with an overarching plan and vision for where we are going, is probably the most fun (yes hard but anything worth doing is hard) I have ever had.   So I leave you with some goodies from Ms. Mason.

“Now, that work which is of most importance to society is the bringing-up and instruction of the children - in the school, certainly, but far more in the home, because it is more than anything else the home influences brought to bear upon the child that determine the character and career of the future man or woman. It is a great thing to be a parent : there is no promotion, no dignity, to compare with it. The parents of but one child may be cherishing what shall prove a blessing to the world. But then, entrusted with such a charge, they are not free to say ‘I may do as I will with mine own.’ The children are, in truth, to be regarded less as personal property than as public trusts, put into the hands of parents that they may make the very most of them for the good of society. And, this responsibility is not equally divided between the parents : it is upon the mothers of the present that the future of the world depends, in even a greater degree than upon the fathers, because it is the mothers who have the sole direction of the child’s early, most impressionable years. This is why we hear so frequently of great men who had good mothers - that is, mothers who brought up their children themselves, and did not make over their gravest duty to indifferent persons.” Charlotte Mason, 1893, “Home Education”, pages 1 & 2.

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