| I have telephone conversations with parents from | | | | If most people in your neighborhood do not |
| remote households across the nation. They say | | | | believe homeschooling high schoolers is possible, |
| they are committed to homeschooling their high | | | | then let that double your resolve! Overcome the |
| school children yet they feel isolated. Part of the | | | | misconceptions of others and prove them wrong! |
| reason why they feel this way is because they | | | | Take an active part in the education of our |
| may be the only homeschooling parents in their | | | | children, not only to prepare them for college but |
| community and they have no one to whom they | | | | also to ready them for life. "Teaching them to |
| can share their experiences or get counsel. Still, | | | | observe all things whatsoever I have commanded |
| there are ways in which homeschool families can | | | | you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the |
| lessen their feelings of isolation. | | | | end of the age. Amen." (Matthew 28:20) |
| Christian homeschoolers who feel alone ought to | | | | It takes courage to homeschool your teenagers, |
| find comfort from what the Lord has said: "Be | | | | and doing so may take you well outside your |
| strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be | | | | comfort zone. Your family may be the only one in |
| afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that | | | | your area that believes that homeschooling can |
| doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor | | | | bring about the best in children. But know this - |
| forsake thee." (Deuteronomy 31:6) Or they may | | | | you are not alone. We are all connected. There is |
| remember that Noah was laughed at and | | | | an internet community of homeschoolers from |
| misunderstood almost his entire life. | | | | whom you can get the support you need. |