"You must have a lot of patience!" "I don't have enough patience." Those are the two statements made to me when home-schooling is the subject.

I have an announcement to make: Home-schooling mothers (and fathers) are not the conquerors of patience. There are many days when we need our count to 100 moment. There are days when we need to escape to the bedroom. There are times when a one week break is imperative!

What do all successful home-schooling mothers (and fathers) possess? WILL! Will. Will is what drives us to have patience with ourselves, in order to have patience with our students.

If you are waiting for patience to decide if a home education is right for your child, you are wasting time. If you are waiting on patience to become more aggressive in your child's education, be it home or traditional, you are wasting time. When you are in need of more money, do you wait around for it? No, you make adjustments, you will either work longer hours, market your business more, and/or become more frugal with your spending. So if one can make adjustments for more money, one can do what is needed for their child's education.

To those who feel that they may not have enough patience to teach their child full-time or supplement their traditional education, question. Do you think the majority of teachers in the school system have patience to teach your child? Another question. When do you think the will to educate your child full-time or supplement their traditional education is needed? Do you think the time is now or when they are still living at home, not contributing to the house financially, and having no prospects of a job? Now talk about needing patience!

So, yes my patience has been tested over these 6 years, but because of my WILL, I will to control the impatient side of me for the benefit of my children. It is better that I do, because the world is an IMPATIENT place.

~i.

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