Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Michael Farris:
I’ve been involved in the homeschooling movement for 25 years. Vicky and I have homeschooled all 10 of our children. As our oldest five daughters have graduated from high school, they went on to pursue very different paths from one another. Today, the oldest four are now married and we have eight lovely grandchildren and counting. And I’ve come to realize that the best measure of homeschooling’s success is not merely how our children perform in the workplace or in the adult world. To me, the very best measure of success is seeing my children homeschooling my grandkids.

This means that I have a special concern that my daughters be well educated.

There is an argument I hear on a fairly regular basis: parents who want their daughters to be amply prepared to run a home challenge, sometimes, the value of a strong academic education for girls.

Of course our daughters should know how to cook and how to clean and sew and follow a budget. (It wouldn’t hurt boys to learn a few of these skills, as well.) But our daughters also need preparation to homeschool their own children.

There’s a lot more work for a mom who doesn’t have advanced training to teach higher math, science, and other advanced principles. It can be done, but it sure takes a lot of hard work. Also, moms who have learned to rigorously evaluate ideas according to logic and the standards of Scripture will be better equipped to teach their children to do same thing. If our daughters are going to help raise the leaders of tomorrow, they need an excellent education, which-in some cases at least—will be served by attending college. I’m Mike Farris.