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For the record, my wife and I have home schooled our four children since day one.

Great to meet you, Windflier! That is great you have home schooled!

Our little guys have all grown up, but we home schooled all three of ours from the very beginning up to college. Our oldest daughter graduated from a Christian college, got married, and now owns a Christian dance studio that is doing very well. Our middle daughter is in college, is married, and has a baby now, but she's still working hard to finish college still. Our "baby" son is in college now too.

When we first started home schooling, I used to think a private Christian school would be the best. I was thinking "of course little ME couldn't do something like they could." But the Lord never let us have enough money to do that throughout the years. So... we kept home schooling.

After many years, it dawned on me that we had not been LIMITED by the Lord. We had been BLESSED by the Lord.

He kept us JUST tight enough that we had to turn down the idea of a private school in so many of those first few years... but it ended up being that situation that gave us many years of learning, living, and enjoying life together.

Our middle daughter, the one that has a child of her own now, says she is going to home school as well.

I'm sure you have experienced this too, but I've always shared with others that when you home school, no matter HOW long you do it, you will have those days when you second guess yourself. Should I be doing this? Am I doing something I should not? Am I doing something wrong for my kids? Am I going to fall apart here?

Then you just get through that one day and face another, and you keep going.

The important thing, I tell others, is that you'll always have doubts on some days. Some days will be bad, and the doubting NEVER goes away. It takes a lot of patience, a lot of love, and a lot of forgiving, and that's just what we need to give OURSELVES! LOL

Anyway, glad again to meet you, Windflyer!

Looking forward to seeing more of you!

See what I mean? "Perry has been an amnesty supporter from Day 1."

Oh, brother..........
BTW, I homeschooled my daughter, too, until we moved back to Texas from Florida. Have you heard what Perry did with the textbooks? For decades liberals have been writing our textbooks....anti-God, anti-Christian, amoral, etc. Perry took them on. It took years and years as governor, but he finally fired all the people who were appointing all those liberals -- it was a big stink and made national news -- but he finally got to the actual committee and LET THEM GO. He replaced them all with conservatives you promptly rewrote the textbooks. No more liberal brainwashing in Texas.

But wait, there's more! Since Texas is such a big state, with such "buying power," publishers defer to us. That means that the textbooks offered to many other states are dictated by what Texas requires. So.....Rick Perry single-handedly changed the education of children in Texas (and many other states) from the liberal garbage to just the facts. He did it. He did it alone. He didn't even campaign on it. He just took it on because it was the "right" thing to do. Without the legislature's help or support. And he was CRUCIFIED for it in the media, like everything else he ever does. There are so many reasons to love this man. He has plenty of faults, but he loves this country and our kids and is a solid Christian in everything he does. That's why they hate him.

...I've always shared with others that when you home school, no matter HOW long you do it, you will have those days when you second guess yourself. Should I be doing this? Am I doing something I should not? Am I doing something wrong for my kids? Am I going to fall apart here?

We went through something like that in the first year or so, but we've always been very resolute. We knew for a fact that we could do a better job of educating our kids than the government indoctrination center could.

The truth is, a parent almost could not commit a worse atrocity against their child, than to turn them over to the leftist government brainwashing machine. If a parent truly understands the real nature of the public school system, they will never experience a single moment of doubt about home schooling.

Kudos to you for keeping your own children out of that meat grinder.

Pleased to meet you, Casinva.