Ha! Mother Does Know Best

Phew ~ Friday's here ~ What a busy week! That said, I'd like to share a quick story of something that happened with my daughter Rebecca. She is 7 going on 37 ~ I really think that she could run the house without me if she needed to (and she thinks so, too!). For the past few weeks in our homeschool we have been going through our lessons each day and phonics and math have been a lot of review (which is absolutely necessary to reinforce the skills she learned last year). Well, Becky has been complaining a lot about "What-Vowels-Consonants-I did this last year!", "I already know this!", etc. Well, I was getting pretty tired of the complaints ~ She was trying my patience, so I decided to give her the first Phonics test last Friday. When she was done she got a 91 (which is still great, of course). But, she was a little bummed out & asked "Why did I get a 91 today and last year I got mostly 100's?". **Just what I wanted, a chance to reinforce to her why she needs to review materials she already learned before!**

Saturday Becky & Matthew spent the day with my family at my brother's house to celebrate my dad's birthday while I stayed home with Jake & got a lot done around the house (I had my dad over for dinner the night before). (Danny was away for the weekend at a Camp Out with the men & boys from our church - He is a Ranger Kids Commander (which is basically our church's version of Boy Scouts). Well, my other brother John drove my kids back home for me & hung around for a visit after they went to bed. He proceeded to tell me things that the kids did throughout the day, funny things they said, etc. Then he told me something that made my week!

He said that Becky was telling him about school and how she had a test and got a lower grade than she thought she would. Then she said, "I guess my mom was right and I do need to review things I already learned". I almost fell off my chair - Becky said I was right about something! (You have to know that Becky thinks she can do my job better than I can - If I tell her to do something one way, she automatically does it a different way). Hearing that she said I was right was a total encouragement to me as a homeschooling mom because sometimes (okay, most of the time) I question if things I try to teach her actually sink in!

Well, I had to share this (even though it was almost a week later than I had wanted to post it!) to hopefully give some encouragement to any of you out there who are newer to homeschooling like I am and may sometimes question or have doubts...Anyway, hope you all have a good weekend and let's pray for the safety of all of the people who are in the path of Hurricane Rita, the people who are stuck in all of that traffic trying to evacuate Texas, for the leadership of the Governors of Texas and Louisana & President Bush, that the oil refineries in Rita's path will not be damaged and that the storm will weaken before it even hits...