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Categories: Léo’s Insights 2024-2025
An interesting series of movies from the 1980s entitled Back To The Future ends with a noteworthy remark. After having experienced a futuristic vision and returning to reality, the young lady asks the inventor of the time machine why a document taken from the future seems to have been erased. The answer is simple. It’s because the future has not yet been written, as it depends on what decisions are made in the present. The inventor then admonishes the young couple to make sure today’s decisions are good ones so the future provides good things. I would like to end this year’s vlog series with the same advice.
Our many years of experience in home education have taught us there are generally two main issues at work in determining our future and that of our children. The first is how often we fail to question the information being presented to us. For instance, when challenged with the need to have a government approved high school diploma, few ask why. If the question is asked, families are usually provided with an exaggerated example of ignorance by those who see themselves as experts. Hardly the kind of information upon which anyone should base potentially life-changing decisions. Many decisions are ill-informed.
The other problem is a general lack of foresight. Most decisions are based on the immediate. A good example of this is when parents decide to put their children back in school after discovering that trying to replicate school at home doesn’t work. Rather than questioning why school-based approaches to education don’t work, families try and then fail to make the same approach work at home – something akin to trying to fit Chev parts into a Ford car.
The stories I shared with you this year were intended to do two things: I trust you were entertained, and I pray you were informed regarding how to work with God in developing what He has already created in each child. Question everything and think about your decisions because your future and that of your children is at stake.
Have a great summer.
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