TUAR Reflections

 

 The photo is of the road back home from mass at the abbey -- and the sunrise.  

I'm still reading through our TUAR archives, and thinking.  

What do homeschooling moms write about when their homeschooling days are over?    

One solution is to keep talking about homeschooling, but from a mentoring perspective.    This seems like a good way to keep giving to the community and making it easier for newer homeschoolers.    You can provide resources, advice, wisdom, comfort, etc.

Another possibility is to carry forward what endured through the homeschooling years and beyond.   Indeed, the two options are not binary -- you can do either or both.

We are currently doing more of the second thing, though we don't exclude the first possibility.  

Chari said something in her introductory post about how she homeschooled herself in her childhood years.    I could say that too.    Probably most homeschooling moms did to some extent.

When I look back at the active years of TUAR, there are some very strong patterns.   Most of our posts focused on:  

• Books
• Nature  
• Family (and friends)
• Last but certainly not least.......  our Faith.  

Oh, and another thing that brings them all together:

Conversation! 

These themes, or pursuits,  are lifelong. .... they came before our active years of homeschooling and have carried on beyond them.

I suppose if I had one bit of advice for newer homeschoolers it would be along the lines of:

Emphasize the things that will be worthwhile when the academic years have gone by.

That's probably what this blog is doing -- carrying on with the things that we have been interested in since our earliest years and are still interested in.

And eventually, I will stop meta-blogging.....