An Open Letter to Home School Moms for Mother's Day

    

Hi homeschool families!

I wanted to share a few thoughts for Mother's Day. If you are homeschooling then the overwhelming odds are that your mother is in charge of your education. I have read thousands of letters and posts over the last 5 years from homeschool families and they are almost always from moms. (I think I've had two from dads.) This is written to those moms and to mothers who take incredible amounts of responsibility for their children.

THANK YOU!!!

The future is in your hands, mom. You've grabbed hold of the future and given it a shake for all that it's worth. And you are doing this not only as a mom but also as an educator!

Yes, it's true that you help put the future there by feeding and clothing your kids and by doing all of the essential chores that keep them whole and well. Yes, you help establish their tomorrow when you weather the storms of your children's illnesses and tantrums and plain old bad days. Your care on a day-to-day basis is what keeps your children moving forward into whatever world they will make. That is worthy of a great big THANK YOU!

But you are doing so much more than that if you are homeschooling your children. You are building tomorrow's leaders. We all know how desperately the world is going to need real leaders so it is absolutely essential that this job be done.

You build the future of mankind every time you sit with your children and teach them about trees or business, music or life. You point the direction the world will walk when you join your children as an educator, sitting through their lessons and gently helping them to see, really see what education is for. Your immediate reward includes being the one to see your children's flashes of understanding and creative genius, their triumphs of sudden understanding and increasing awareness. Those moments are your pay and you are surely better paid than many other professions. Your pay also includes their smiles of joy as they discover who they are and what they can do. Your pay embraces the knowledge that we will have a future. You have seen to it. You have fed and nourished and helped that future to think straight and true. When we are all doing better at some future time, when your children and their children are doing well, you will have had your hand in that day and you should well know it. Your children will know it.

Enjoy your Mother's Day and again, THANK YOU! Consider your children's gifts a part of your pay this week. Don't spend it all in one place.

     Steven Horwich
     May 9, 2010
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