This brought home schoolers together to share in the joys and struggles of home schooling at a time when there were very few home schoolers. Since that time P.A.T.H. has grown and changed. When you think of home schooling, thoughts of textbooks, teacher guides, black boards, bulletin boards, red pens, and lesson plans may be your main focus. Though most of these things are needed to teach your children, don't feel that you have to have everything or teach every class each day. Home schooling is more than having a school in your dining room, or extra bedroom.
Home schooling is a commitment within a family to view life as a training ground.
It is a new and exciting way of life. Though superior academics are high on the list of what we as home schooling parents want our children to accomplish, Godly, moral, character is our number one goal. When you view home schooling as a way to reach goals you can readily see the benefits of keeping your children at home, under the loving protection, and instruction of the parents, and away from the negative peer dependency. During a typical home schooling day in addition to the academics the children will participate in all aspects of daily life, from helping to prepare meals, to doing household chores, as well as reading good books and writing letters to friends or other writing activities. Avoid getting overwhelmed and burning out.