Harris Family Homeschool

Harris Family Homeschool

Where do I start. Well, we are a Christian homeschooling family of 6 children. I am a born again Christian and belong to a Baptist Church. I love to help people so that is the reason for this web site. I started homeschooling about 4 years ago with my now 9 year old daughter. I love homeschooling and know all the joys that it can bring. I want others to experience that joy while also being there for the bad times too. Home educating your children can be hard at times. Believe me! I wanted to build a support system for Christian parents that are led by the Lord to take up this challenge. My prayer is that by God's help we can make a difference in the homeschooling community. I would love to use this site to help with problems, share accomplishments, method ideas, parenting questions, and hopefully alot more. There is so much out there in the homeschooling world to go thru. My hope is that you would pray and seek the Lord to find what is right for your family. I hope I can help you do that. I have a used bookstore on eBay to help with the burden that homeschooling can cause some families that are homeschooling more than one child. I also have a new bookstore that has new items, but they are reasonably priced and can be shared by more than one child. Email me with questions and ideas.

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My Info:

Name:

Jennifer

Email:

wiveandmother@yahoo.com

Note that when you use the links for Nanny's Attic and Jen's Book Nook you will go to Ebay. These two stores are Ebay Stores. The site will ask you what store you want to find. That's where you can type in the name of the store and Ebay will link you to that store.

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Many times I get asked : "How in the world do you get all your children to behave?" The answer is that I don't at least all at one time. It may seem that way, but my children are in fact just children. I would say that I do have hope for parents out there. It is that if I can do it you can too. What has to change is the parents. Now I know what you are thinking. Why do I have to change, I'm the grown up. It helps to know the difference between what I call discipline and punishment. To parent our children we need to know the difference. To me discipline is the daily, hourly, and second by second training you give your child. Punishment is the outcome that comes from broken rules and learning from their actions. Yes, Yes, Yes children can learn from their misbehaving. Once we were in the van going out for the day, but first we had to pay bills and take care of errands. I clearly set the path that we were going to take before we left. Nevertheless, bickering started about half way thru our trip. I gave a warning and told them to lower the volume down. Still, yes still bickering continued. This time the warning was followed by a " I will turn this van around and go home and come back tonight when your father gets home". Of course the "No's" echoed off the windows and nearly busted my eardrums. All was perfect for about a minute then "You breathed on me", "No I didn't", "Your picking on me", "MMMMMOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM". My ABS brakes have never worked so fast, because in a twinkle of a eye I turned the van around never saying a word. They learned their lesson and I never had to punish them when I got home. They punished themselves and they knew it.

So lets begin by changing our attitudes about discipline and punishment before we can ask our children to change theirs. In fact we are the grown ups and they look to us for guidelines and limits. So if you want your children to behave more, set the limit and stick with it. They need it and really they want it - that's why they test us so. Keep the faith. God gave your child to you for a reason. He knows you can do it.

Philippians 4:13 " I can do all things through Christ which strengthenth me."