Mt. Sophia Ideas

Who is your homeschooler?

If I ran into you in an elevator and asked you to describe your homeschooler(s), could you give me a one-minute answer?

(This by the way, is called an elevator pitch.)

If you don’t have an elevator pitch about your kids, maybe your mission has become fuzzy?

Why are you homeschooling? What are you hoping to create (work for God to create)?

This is a GOOD homework assignment for the summer.

Here are some things to help you get started. Let’s look at what your homeschooler is not:

-His transcript

-Her SAT scores

-His acheivement test percentiles

-Her number of honors courses

-His awesome apprenticeships

These are things your homeschooler DOES, but WHO is a different, more essential question (the rest is icing on the cake).

Try these questions:

-What does God say about your child?

-In whose image was she created?

-What gifts did He place within him and why (as much as you can know)?

-What is her character?

If you know these things, you can be faithful to the mission God has given you as a parent. The effect will be a transcript and activities that meet your child’s needs and the family mission, but it will be formed by God’s ideas.

Why not try composing an elevator pitch about your homeschooler?

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• A Homeschooler’s Identity
• Homeschooler, Justify Thyself!
• Change the World- Well, Change YOU