Commitment

Yesterday I was asked by 3 mothers (two of them homeschoolers) why I had decided to homeschool. Personally, we made this decision for two main reasons, the first being a religous conviction, the second based on the public school environment.
Even though we feel led by God to educate our children at home, there are days when I feel like I have been tapped dry and just cannot get motivated to do one more assignment. So, then why do I continue? Wouldn't it be easier to just put them in the local school and let someone else take over? Those are the questions I ask myself. Then God calms my heart and reminds me that these are my children. They are my gift from my heavenly Father. They are mine, and I am completely and totally commited to them.
As a family, we must have a commitment, to our family members, to our values and beliefs and we must have a commitment to our children’s future. When we began home schooling we made a commitment to our children’s future. We decided that we would take this massive responsibility into our own hands and educate our children in the way we felt we were being led to teach them. We did not enter into this commitment lightly and it shows in the fact that we have been doing this for several years now. Commitment is a pledge to do something. I made a commitment to Jim when I married him. I made a commitment to my children when they were conceived. I made a commitment to follow Christ when I became a Christian. As a family, we are committed to one another. We have made both verbal and silent pledges to each other. We, as parents, are committed to the teaching of our children. Not just school-based teaching, but to teaching them how to live their lives in a godly manner. We are committed to teaching them biblical truths, morals, values, and how to relate with others, just to name a few.
We are commited to providing our children with a Bible-based education. We are commited to teaching them at home, because no other teacher they could have will love them, cherish them, or be more concerned about the adults they will become than the 2 parents that God gave them.
"And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up" Dueteronomy 6:7