Home School Convention

Last weekend we went to our local home school convention sponsored by Christian Family Schools of San Diego. The main speaker was Voddie Baucham.
If you've never heard Voddie speak you're in for a delight. I have YouTube videos below for your listening pleasure if you have time to listen.

We were challenged in many areas and reconfirmed our decision to home educate our children, even the one going into high school. We have Joe signed up with a charter school. A great charter school. Can't say anything bad about it. BUT! It is a government school. Period. It will always be a government school. So I'll have to buck up and get through high school once again. (I've done this four times now you would think it's not a big deal.) Voddie told us, "Don't quit!!" That was what I needed to hear. I broke the news to my son that he would continue to have me as his teacher and he took it very well.

We were challenged in not letting boys and girls playing contact sports together. When boys are physically pushing girls and competing with them they are not learning to protect and cherish them. As it turns out the soccer team Joe had tried out for was allowing a girl to play on the team. Now you can't tell me that she is THAT good that she can't fit on a girl's club soccer team. I'm not buying it. We told the coach that Joe wouldn't be playing on a team that had girls on it, especially at fourteen years old. Could this be why we have more domestic violence? There are NO gender lines between men and women, boys and girls? Come on! Let boys be rough, physical, sweaty, aggressive, testosteronish (my own word) without a GIRL in the mix. I told him our concerns and we told him he couldn't play. He took that well too. He is a REALLY GREAT kid. It turns out that a higher level team was having tryouts the same day I told him he probably wasn't going to play on that team and he went. He thanked me when he got back in the car after the tryout. He liked being challenged, he liked not being the best player on the team, and if we had not put our foot down, he wouldn't have had the opportunity. So now we just hope he makes the team. :-)

I came home after the conference and downloaded podcasts of Voddie's for my iPod and have all ready listened to a few. He is inspiring, rightly handling the Word of Truth, and challenging. Thanks for a great weekend, Voddie!