Homeschooling and My Marriage

I have received emails asking me to write about our homeschool endeavors. I am leery to write on homeschooling for two reasons. 1. I know many of my readers do not homeschool, so I don't want to bore you! lol! and 2. I feel like a rookie! (here's the kids on their first day of home school this past August - this was my first day of homeschool too!)

I feel like I have so much to learn about homeschooling, that I need to keep learning before I share. One website that has become a excellent source of inspiration to me is The Heart of the Matter Online. Their entire website is for homeschoolers and wowsers is it good!!!

I was invited to write a series of posts on "Marriage and Homeschooling" and so today's Marriage Monday is linked to my article over there.

Here's an excerpt:

After a long day of homeschooling, cleaning, cooking, perhaps uncooperative children, and laundry piling up, it’s easy to turn to our husband’s as soon as they walk in the door and say “heeeeeeeelp!” And though I completely believe in our husband’s being hands on with the children, we must not forget we are our husband’s helper.


Wow - that's a hard statement to swallow for a woman of our generation! Genesis 2:18 says that when God created Eve, she was created to be a "helper suitable for him (Adam)." That is the wife's purpose. It is quite plain in black and white. When you act as a "helper suitable for ... (insert your husband's name here)", you are glorifying God. And yet this is tough to write about because I know that it will offend someone out there!


It is hard for women to sit back and simply help their husbands - we are tempted to lead them, boss them, criticize them, expect them to take care of themselves and us, be tidy, and a helper to us. But in actuality - they are not our helpers - we are their helpers! Yes, God desires that they be servant leaders but whether they are actually doing that should make no difference as to our attitude of being their helper...

To read the rest of the article click here...

Walk with the King!