You can’t do THAT with all those children

I was speaking to a friend, who hasn’t hidden the fact that she totally disagrees with the “tragic choice we have made to homeschool” (our poor children don’t get to make friends???). I had given her some of our homemade skin products, and she shook her head and said, “I just don’t know how you do it. (It was NOT in an admiring tone that she said this.) How can you possibly keep up with everything and teach all those children too? The insinuation of her tone and facial expression was, “you are not doing an adequate job homeschooling your children, and this is proof!”

Other comments that mimick this “you can’t be a good mom with too many children”, suggest that a mom with several children can’t give them all the attention they need. There are so many myths, spouted every time, by people who just don’t understand. They don’t have a big picture mentality of the way things work in a large, homeschooling family. Isn’t is ironic, that you NEVER hear one of these people scold the full-time working mom. And I know from experience, that she certainly doesn’t have adequate time to give to her children. It seems that Satan would perpetuate any lie he can get into the hearts of people to discourage the multiplying of children.

To combat the above accusations is not an easy one-answer job. It’s multi-faceted; having lots of children, as I have discussed before, may enable a mother to do more, because her team is bigger. She shouldn’t have to fight off suspicions if she has an extra-curricular activity. She is home all day, and therefore does have more time. And because we treat homeschooling as a lifestyle, not something that only occurs between certain hours of the day, much of Mom’s endeavors can be shared and learned from by the children.

I don’t really know where I was going with this blog…kinda rambles, I guess, but it is my thought for the day!

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