In This World, You Will Have Tribulation
Categories: Léo’s Insights 2024-2025
I would be remiss if I neglected to tell the truth about unschooling. While it is, in my opinion, absolutely the best way to raise and train children in a fallen and decaying world, it is not an antidote to the troubles, trials and tribulations that will come our way whether we home educate or not.
My stories have been of a positive nature all year long, but I really do not want to leave you with the idea that if you choose to unschool, all your troubles will go away. You’ll never be entirely free of problems, not even regarding your education program and most certainly not regarding your marriage, children and family. We do have an enemy of our souls and his job is to make our job as difficult as possible, unless of course we have somehow chosen to work on his team.
We have witnessed pretty well every bad thing that could possibly come. Many families we have ministered to have blown apart, some for reasons we are still completely mystified about. They seemed to be doing everything right. Was it just a show?
Mothers, fathers and children have passed away or been killed, some even at their own hands. Children have rebelled so extremely that there has been no communication for decades, and in some cases there is no cognizance of their whereabouts or if they are even alive.
Many families have given up and sent their children back to school. This is rarely a good solution and we feel a general sense of having failed a family when this happens, which of course is ridiculous, yet still does not prevent us from thinking we could have done more.
The greatest heartbreak is the loss of a child, something we are unfortunately familiar with. Our family stuck together during our time of tragedy but not all families do, adding an even greater level of calamity to an already awful experience.
Unschooling is not the reason for these disastrous events, and it does mitigate the multiplication of failures and stressors which can arise when children are sent to school. I most highly recommend unschooling your children, which I believe will at least somewhat reduce the possibility of some things going wrong. Unschooling is the best choice even if it only reduces problems rather than eliminating them.
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