·        You are free to determine what home schooling will look like in your family. It’s your home, not a school!

·        Home libraries are made for children, not for home librarians. Keep your books available, accessible, appropriate and abundant.

·        Curiosity requires order; creativity requires disorder. Learn to live with orderly disorder in your home.

·        You can never have too many real books, but you will always have too few bookshelves. If you build them, they will be filled!

·        You can learn the Bible without loving it, but you cannot love the Bible without learning it. It is God’s living word, not an academic textbook.

·        Each of your children deserves a “designer education” that enables them to learn in their own way, at their own pace. Treat each child as a unique individual.

·        Learning is a relational process, not an instructional procedure. Keep it personal.

·        The best measure of your children’s knowledge is not what goes into their heads, but what comes out of their mouths. Just ask them!

·        Your children will learn more from what they discover, than from what they are told. Guide them, don’t chide them.

·        Your children will soon forget a textbook required reading assignment, but they will never forget a good book read aloud by the fire with hot chocolate.

Copyright 2003
Whole Heart Ministries
503 Dawn Place
Lebanon, TN 37087

 Used by permission. Originally published in Practical Homeschooling, Issue #25."