Setting Sail

 

Image from Picture Book

Welcome to Homeschool Voyagers!

Our family is new to homeschooling this year, and so far, we are loving it. Many people have wondered why we made this choice. Our answer: There really was no other choice.

Regular public school is, in reality, just an institution for indoctrination social engineering; not something we were comfortable with, for our children. So, we looked for alternatives; we even played the Charter School Lottery Game and came up losers each and every time.

So... we chose to HOMESCHOOL. 

The following excerpt is from an OLD book, written in 1838. It discusses the importance of parents as teachers:

THE POWER OF EDUCATION OVER MAN NO NEW DOCTRINE.

Such then is man—a creature composed of three natures, physical, intellectual, and moral, all united to form one being. Such is education—the great instrument by which the character of man is to be formed—the instrument by which the powers of the body are to be trained, by which the mental faculties are to be developed and expanded, by which the heart, the seat of the affections, is to be moulded.

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PROVISION OP PROVIDENCE THAT THE CONTROLLING
LESSONS OF LIFE
SHALL BE GIVEN BY PARENTS.

If man is made to be the subject of education, and if the decisive stage in which he is most easily moulded is that of early life, how wise and benignant is the course of providence as displayed in this design. In the dawn of existence, man is to receive a bias for life. It is at this period that he is most ductile. It is at this period that he is formed to obtain the most lasting impressions, and acquire those trains of thought and feeling which will shape his future fortunes. And what seminary is provided for him? To what teacher is he committed? The seminary is home; the teacher is the parent. What spot on earth so likely to abound in genial influences as the fireside? What schoolmaster so likely to teach with blended wisdom and kindness as the parent?

It is plainly a part of the great scheme of the Creator, in making man the subject of education, that the fireside shall be the seminary in which the controlling lessons of life are to be taught. It is obvious that in placing the power of fashioning the characters of their children for good or ill in the hands of parents.

Title: Fireside Education
Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher: F. J. Huntington, 1838

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We want our children to have a strong academic and moral education. We believe ALL children are capable of learning a wide variety of subjects, beyond the basic skills, and should have that opportunity. We are working to provide that opportunity for our children.

Meet the Little Voyagers!

This is Rosetta. She is in 2nd grade. She loves reading the Boxcar Children series 

and learning to live like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This is Saralina. She is in Kindergarten. She loves horses, gardening and living like 

Laura Ingalls Wilder, too.

 

And finally, we have our preschooler, Spiderman. Spiderman likes leaping from tall buildings; doing whatever his sisters are doing, and then some!

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This being our first year for homeschooling, we are just beginning to get our routine established, but the little voyagers are really stepping up and taking turns at the helm.

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Please join us on our Homeschool Voyage!

We hope you enjoy will enjoy our journey as much as we do.