Homeschooling With A Twist – God Schooling

Homeschooling With A Twist - God Schooling Episode 407 Never heard of God Schooling? Well, you are not alone. Many are new to this concept of education but homeschool mom and herbalist, Julie Polanco will share what it is and how you can achieve homeschool success. Julie Polanco is a podcaster on this network! Check out the Crunchy Christian Podcast here. Julie's Book - God Schooling here. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. Julie has four children and has recently completed her eighteenth year of homeschooling. As children, she and her husband were both bullied and she didn't want her children to have the same experiences, and the idea of homeschool resonated with them. While on a family camping trip the family next door, on the next site was a homeschool family of eight. Julie felt like it was a God-incident. They were so impressed with the family and how close they were with each other and how mature the older children were. And they saw them and we said, we want that. It was a turning point. *This is an excerpt of the interview with Julie Polanco on God Schooling. Listen to this broadcast for the entire content. Julie says... And from there we thought, okay, we're going to work. This is what we're going to do. And you know, anybody can teach preschool and kindergarten. But after not very long, it wasn't too many years that it became a real chore trying to get the kids to do what I thought they should be doing. God Schooling And the light in their eyes, it started to go out, especially my oldest. And I just, I cried out to the Lord and he said, well, what are you doing? Like, you're not, you're not listening to what I want you to do with these kids. You're trying to do this according to what everyone else says it should be like, and you're not pressing in and seeking my peace and he just spoke to my heart and said I want you to do things differently. These kids are gonna need something different. And within a short time, he revealed to me just why they needed something different and what that something different was. And at the time you know, Christian unschooling is kind of a dirty word. I felt like the Lord was leading us towards a Christian unschooling approach, in a sense, it is child-directed learning. Secular Unschooling allows the child to learn what they want when they want, how they want and if they want, and it often looks like a very sort of hands-off, like just let the kid do whatever they want all day. But I, in a Christian sense, knew that wouldn't work. Children will not always choose very wisely and will not always choose very productive pursuits. So it's more of a God-led or God School approach. God Schooling is focused and informed by the child's passions and their natural bents and interests, but it's not just let the kid do whatever they want all day. It's working with them, collaborating with them. And what is God doing in this child? Where what how is God shaping this child? It's, it's, it's more of a relationship-driven approach and more of developing their passions and interests and looking at how you can direct them towards productive use of their time to develop those skills, to develop those passions and pursuits. So it is directed by what God put into that child,