Summer is here, and it's H-O-T!!
No worries though...this month's book selection is sure to be a cool, refreshing breeze to your heart, mind and soul. As you reflect upon the past home-schooling year, pondering those amazing moments and those not so amazing ones. July's book club selection will remind us of what every home-schooling parent needs to know.
1. Your labor is not in vain
2. You are not alone in the struggle
3. It's okay if your kids (or you) get upset - you will be fine.
July's Book Club Selection:
Paula Penn-Nabrit's
Morning by Morning - How We Home-Schooled Our
African-American Sons To the Ivy League
I'm sure every home-schooling family will be able to relate to the Nabrit's experience on some level. More importantly this inspirational and practical memoir will teach us all something in our quest to provide the best education for our children.
Happy Reading Family!!
This book was very interesting to me. Originally it was suggested as a great book about the journey to and through home schooling. Being as white as can be, and already home schooling for years, the differences AND the sameness of our experience turned out to be more interesting. It seemed that most of the negative things they experienced were miscommunication. What continues to sadden me is the lines that are being drawn between people who are pursuing home schooling. Some would call them "distinctions". Some of my favorite conversations I have had with another home schooling mom was with a woman started out some of our conversations with "You may know the answer to this 'cause you are white....." And of course I reciprocated with "Since you are black.....". Their moving out of our town was sad for me. We could have real conversations about race, different cultures, others perceptions. Finding, in the end, that there was much more about each other that was similar than different. If we continue to have black home schoolers, brown home schoolers, latina home schoolers, ________________ home schoolers, we do not become stronger. We are diluted. Home schooling is difficult enough with out the dilution. I wonder how much better the home schooling experience (life experience) would be if we were defined as people choosing to home school rather than "(color of skin or home schooling philosophy)home schoolers"?
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