Home School Families are Self-centered

Oh course, I just made an obvious stereotype blanket statement to get your attention. Let me start out by saying we are a home school family. My two children, Emilee and Luke, are going through Abeka video program. My wife and I plan to be a home school family from now on, or at least until all of my children graduate.

There is a major problem I see in the home school family. Instead of a mom and dad who think they are debtors to all men, they instead think it is their responsibility to only focus on their family and no one else. When they go in to a church they think the church should be centered around their family.

They think that they have to guard their children from being with any other non-churched or non-home schooled children. In good conscience they say, it is my responsibility to make sure nothing unclean is around my child.

The faulty thinking in this area though is that we should be concerned about other children just as much as our own. When our child plays with someone who is not a good kid, our thoughts shouldn't automatically go to guarding our child, but instead of how we could make an impact in the life of the "bad kid".