Homeschooling is a Family Affair

Burn Out, Informative, Single Parents

Published with Permission
Written by Marilyn Rockett
www.MarilynRockett.com

With a good bit of apprehension, I started an ambitious project recently. I dismantled 20 years of family picture albums because the pictures were discoloring and because I had only one set of albums but four sons. Why didn’t I think years ago to assemble individual albums for my boys so each would have his own set by the time he was grown? Well, you know about hindsight.

As I reminisced while dividing the pictures among my sons, one thing stood out to me. There were a large number of pictures with the boys and their grandparents—sweet pictures of them giving a grandmother a hug, of an adoring grandson wearing his grandfather’s World War II Navy medals and sword, of a grandparent helping with some task, of a birthday or a trip shared with a grandparent, and the annual pictures of our family in front of a grandparent’s fireplace at Christmas.

Now that I have six grandchildren, the project also brought back many precious childhood memories of my own grandparents—of things they did or said. Isn’t this the way the Lord meant it to be? (more…)

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A Modern Famous Home Scholar

Biography

 

Sho Yano

Sho Yano is an Asian-American child prodigy with an estimated IQ of 200. His father is from Japan and his mother from South Korea. Yano was reading at two, writing at three, playing piano at four, and composing at five. Yano graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University Chicago when he was 12 and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in molecular genetics and cell biology when he was 18, the youngest ever to earn a PhD there. He is currently in medical school working on an MD. Yano’s mom decided to home school her son after realizing how much more advanced he was than the other students at his school and how much more seriously he took his academic work. Mrs. Yano has written several books in Korean on home schooling and home schools Sho’s little sister, Sayuri, an academic and musical prodigy in her own right. Sayuri recently finished her bachelors degree in biology at Roosevelt University. She’s 13.

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A Modern Famous Home Scholar

Biography

 

Tim Tebow

Former All-American and Heisman Trophy winner at the University of Florida, Tim Tebow led the Gators to national championships in 2007 and 2009. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2010.  Tebow was born in the Phillipines, where his parents were Christian missionaries, but spent most of his childhood in Florida, where he was home schooled along with his siblings. A 1996 Florida law allowing home schoolers to play on the sports teams of their local public school enabled Tebow to play for his local high school and lead them to the Florida state championship, while being twice named Florida’s Player of the Year. Other states have since moved to pass similar laws allowing home schoolers to play on public school sports teams, including in Alabama, where the pending bill is called the “Tim Tebow Bill.” Tebow has always spoken highly of his home schooling experience and seems to enjoy confounding stereotypes of home schoolers. After being asked how he felt about being the first home schooler nominated for a Heisman Trophy, Tebow replied, “That’s really cool. A lot of times people have this stereotype of home schoolers as not very athletic – it’s like, go win a spelling bee or something like that – it’s an honor for me to be the first one to do that.”

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