Homeschooling Pays
We read in the news recently that a local denominational school is about to close. To stay open, they would have to charge about 5% more school fees plus a registration fee per child. We quickly did the math, and calculated that in a family with three children, the costs for sending all three children to a private school would amount to something around $1,200 every month, not counting uniforms, books, stationary, and other expenses school life brings about.
Do you realize that that's about the amount of money many people bring home monthly ? So think:
If mother stayed home instead of going to work, home schooled the children and had additional time to clean the house herself (instead of employing someone to do so), to bake and cook and make pasta from scratch, to grow vegetables in the garden and do any number of other small things that contribute to the economical well being of the family, the family would indeed not have less money, but more in the end.
We promote home schooling because there is no other way to teach your children the way of the Lord. Nobody else is responsible for educating your children but you, their mother and father. You should not be willing to hand your children over to other people and to their peers to educate them.
And if you calculate honestly and consider if all the expenses you have are really necessary, and whether you really think it's wise to take up a long-term mortgage when the rates have risen to their highest levels in 10 months, you will realize that you do not have a financial excuse anymore to send your children off to school because you both, mother and father, need to go to work.
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Do you realize that that's about the amount of money many people bring home monthly ? So think:
If mother stayed home instead of going to work, home schooled the children and had additional time to clean the house herself (instead of employing someone to do so), to bake and cook and make pasta from scratch, to grow vegetables in the garden and do any number of other small things that contribute to the economical well being of the family, the family would indeed not have less money, but more in the end.
We promote home schooling because there is no other way to teach your children the way of the Lord. Nobody else is responsible for educating your children but you, their mother and father. You should not be willing to hand your children over to other people and to their peers to educate them.
And if you calculate honestly and consider if all the expenses you have are really necessary, and whether you really think it's wise to take up a long-term mortgage when the rates have risen to their highest levels in 10 months, you will realize that you do not have a financial excuse anymore to send your children off to school because you both, mother and father, need to go to work.
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