I am not smart enough. If God places a burden on a person s heart, He will provide the means to accomplish that burden. The same God who provided manna and quail for the Israelites in the desert will surely provide parents with the skills, knowledge, direction, and yes, even patience to teach their own children, if they desire.
Most parents begin by attending a book fair to shop for curriculum.
This is akin to grocery shopping for the entire year without a list or a menu plan. Instead of standing at a vendor s table asking how much a particular curriculum costs, parents would be better served sitting at home talking about each child and setting individual goals and objectives for them. Public and private school teachers face a classroom of twenty to thirty students, making it very difficult to individualize. Since most home schooling families are smaller than that, it is possible to tailor the curriculum to each child. Home school allows the whole child to be taught in every aspect of his life, not merely the academic.