“to give you a future and a hope”

Today we opened a parcel with new school books. I marked up which books were to Daniel and which were to Gabriel. I then took out the exams from the books and put them away until they are done with their books and then they can do the tests. We buy books around every 6 weeks or so and they have six basic school subjects: English, Literature and creative writing, Science, Word building, Social studies and Maths. We are doing a program that is called Accelerated Christian Education and it works very well for us. It is a good education and the boys are learning so much. It also gives us the freedom to travel and go places that we want to because the school is easy to bring and do wherever they are. They can do school during the seminars that we are teaching, they can do it in the car, at home, out in the nature, bring it to Sweden. Yes, it is absolutely brilliant for us and for the lifestyle that we are living.

Our school day is usually something like this: 1 hour school – 15 minutes break. 1 hour school – 15 minutes break. Then they do school until lunch. We eat and have a longer break and if it is anything they are not done with they finish it after lunch. Keep in mind, the beauty with homeschooling: We can lay up the day the way we want to. Are they tired, lets sleep and start later. If we want to take a longer break, that’s fine. If we want to do school in the evening, we do that. Sometimes they skip breaks and just keep on working.

I just heard a story about siblings that had had this education and are now working great jobs.

I am not afraid of what the future brings for my children. The bible says “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”. So what do I have to fear for the future?

I think it is easy to think that school needs to be one way. Especially for Swedish people who have never experienced anything else then a traditional school. However, in so many countries around the world, home education is legal and is flourishing. If the children want, they can come into universities later or they can start their own business or do whatever they want. The world doesn’t end just because children do not go to traditional school, there are other ways.

After school we went to the park and we were there for a long time. I had a wonderful conversation with a lady and got to pray for her and share the gospel. So precious!!