Are you wondering what an encouraging learning environment could look like? Join host Mike Smith and author Diana Waring as they continue to discuss abundant-life homeschooling, today on Home School Heartbeat.
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Mike Smith:
Diana, in your book Reaping the Harvest: The Bounty of Abundant-Life Homeschooling, you talk about what a great abundant-life homeschool can really look like. Would you please explain to our listeners what you mean by abundant-life homeschooling?
Diana Waring: You know, I believe that we were designed with an enormous capacity for enjoying learning. We have the gift of loving good hard work as long as it’s appropriate and interesting to us. So if we begin with that in mind, it will help us create a learning environment for our children that encourages this joy in learning, this creative bent, the delight in working hard on what they find fascinating. Abundant-life homeschooling means that we start with God’s design for us. We rethink the cultural model of pushing kids through a factory-style learning system, and we begin to walk a journey of delight in learning that allows each of our children to thrive. We can start right now where we are with the kids we have, the circumstances of our own lives, with something as simple as implementing Proverbs 16:21 into our homeschool day, which says, “Sweetness of lips increases learning.” Mike, all of us would love to learn in that setting!
Mike: Well, what a great word picture, Diana, and thanks for sharing that vision with us today. And until next time, I’m Mike Smith.
