Never a Helpmeet Part 1: Selfish

Because you are “created to be his helpmeet.” If you’re just a person living your own life — well, that’s wrong.

If You Weren’t Homeschooled, Don’t Make Homeschooling Your Punchline

“Homeschool alumni are not telling our stories for your entertainment. We’re not telling our stories so that you can call our culture or parents stupid. If you do that, then honestly, you’re no better than our culture or parents.”

Counting Sheep

“There are hurting kids, now as there was back when I was a kid. There are secrets and sorrows and fears. We have shared those secrets as friends, we have carried each other’s sorrows, we have held each other’s hands in our mutual fears. But maybe you’re right. Maybe at the end of the day, we’re in the minority. Maybe we are statistically challenged. The possibility doesn’t faze me one bit.”

About Those “Model Homeschoolers”…

“The reason most parents do the authoritarian parenting thing in the first place is because they believe it will result in model children and successful adults. They see children from these other homeschooling families that seem ‘perfectly well-behaved’ and who do ‘first time obedience’ and many understandably want that sort of awesomeness for themselves. What they do not understand is that this ‘model homeschooler’ or ‘model child’ image often comes at a steep price.”

Then Why Didn’t You Tell Us That, Mom?

“Once homeschool parents enter the Christian homeschool subculture, if they don’t vocally and openly condemn, question, or contradict what that subculture teaches, their children will assume that the ideas and ideals of that subculture are approved—something they should listen to, take seriously, and imbibe. I’ve talked to more than my fair share of homeschool graduates who grew up in this culture and took to heart things they later found out their parents never even realized they were learning.”