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What’s the one thing I would do differently?

I can offer a lot of advice on many different categories involving homeschooling, parenting, teaching, church etc based on a journey of pits and peaks while walking these paths with the Lord for the past 36 years. And I am happy to help anyone w/anything the Lord allows me to in this regard.

HOWEVER, I want to share the one thing that stands far and above anything else when it comes to hindsight now that my children are adults. Want to know what it is?

First, some things it is NOT:

*Starting my children earlier in formal learning.

*Insisting on better grades or mastering in any subject.

*Choosing easier or, conversely, more challenging curriculum.

*Spending more time at home, more time in extracurriculars or even more time in the church.

*Being diligent in character training is great, but not a remiss there, either.

*Reading God’s Word: BUT it is hard to say I wish I wouldn’t have spent more time there-for myself in some seasons, for my kids at other times, because how could that not be something I wouldn’t want more of in our lives? It’s a close one, to say the least.

That said, what is hands down the one thing I would have done more of, given a do-over (not withstanding God’s wonderful grace for today)?

I would pray more.

I encourage you to do the same now while those children are there under your wings. Stay close to the Lord, do His will, for He hears our prayers when we’re walking with Him:

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything that belongs to the world: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world with its lusts will pass away, but the one who does God’s will lives forever.

I John 2:15-17

…and pray more, Mommas.

With Love, Tamara