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Dear Stacy, We are a home school family with 9 and 7 year old daughters. This year is a special and different year for us. We have in the past years home schooled through much pain and loss- a friend losing her daughter, my daughter's friend on the very same day as our baby miscarried at 15 weeks. Prior to the miscarriages, I had been told my fertility was gone, so the loss was so shocking and painful. And there was a subsequent miracle baby- miscarriage after that. So this year as we celebrate a little boy baby born that by man's explanations couldn't be here, I realize that with all the excellent, yet teacher intensive curriculums I have been using as a former teacher (Right Start, Spell to Write & Read, Father's World) I need to step back and make time to celebrate with my girls the answer to their faithful prayers, after I had lost hope and sold my baby things. In their home school years I want them to remember this time of answered prayer as well as while this baby is around to begin to understand the value they hold as women and life-givers, nurturers. I am looking to simplify what I have been doing, and to help them in this wonderful opportunity to have a hands on opportunity to love their baby brother as well as see the value in the role of mothering. My daughter has expressed a desire to become a nurse after hearing Story Hour stories of Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Clara Barton, but I want to share with her the value of the role of being a mother. I am feeling rebellious of the teaching model I was trained in wondering when in the paradigm of school curriculum there is time to train them in the other beautiful, mentoring and discipling aspects of being women, and realizing if I don't pull back some, there won't be time. So I need to teach some things that are simple and not adding to what I have to do. I just feel strongly that if I continue as I was, something will be missed this year. Wondering if based on this information, you would make some recommendations. I have been asking veteran home school moms questions to determine how to put something together to create a unit study on being a mother. I noticed the books In My Father's House and My Mommy, My Teacher in an old copy of a catalog from Books on the Path. Is there anything anyone would recommend? Sincerely, Lori Chenoweth
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teawithlc on Sep 10, 2008
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Yoshi3329 on Mar 24, 2008
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