Photo Friday - Why I Homeschool
Sep 7th, 2007 by lvbirders
This was one of my favorite scenes this past week.
Josh and I had been to the library. While I was browsing and searching for various books, Josh found two on his favorite subject… Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is his all time favorite author with The Sun Also Rises being his favorite book by this author. I have yet to read it. Josh and I do not share an enthusiasm for this author. I read A Farewell To Arms with my daughter last year and barely got through it. I absolutely loved The Old Man and the Sea but I listened to this on tape. The very problem I have with Hemingway, short, choppy sentences, is the very reason that Josh and his older sister adore him. I have promised Josh that I will give The Sun Also Rises a chance but I will again try this book on tape, as to me, Hemingway’s style seems to work better when heard than read, as his stories are more like conversations amongst people. But I digress.
The two books Josh found of interest were A Reader’s Guide to Ernest Hemingway by Arthur Waldhorn (which is the book he is reading in the above picture) and The Short Stories of Ernest Heminway Critical Essays Edited by Jackson J. Benson. Josh recently purchased a book of Hemingway’s short stories at the bookstore so the criticism book was of special interest to him. Note none of this is part of our “structured studies” just things he likes reading about on his own.
Last night while he was reading to me from Susan Wittig Albert’s newest Cottge Tale, The Tale of Hawthorn House (we’ve been taking turns reading to each other) all of a sudden he started to tell me about one of the crtical essays he had read and his thoughts on it as he had read the short story it discussed. I don’t even remember what trail led him here but as I listened to him I was amazed. Here was my “baby” critically analyzing and discussing a work of literature. This past summer he has grown taller than I am and his voice has changed into something I don’t even recognize on the telephone.
This morning I found these tucked into the couch
and I was reminded exactly how blessed I am to be homeschooling with him :)
I love pictures of homeschool children. Maybe it is because we homeschool too, but seeing them with books. Soon I come to the end of the season with our homeschooling- 24 yrs total- 3 children. I am helping to homeschool a friend’s granddaughter. To not homeschool at all seems very sad. I see the new stuff coming out now, and I say, I wish I had that when I started. We have so many great choices now.
Linda,
Thanks so much for visitng and commenting. Please accept my apologies in responding. Wow, 24 years! We are into our tenth this year and I agree with you, there is just something about seeing a child of yours absorbed in a book. Good luck with the end of one journey and the start of your next in helping another family be able to enjoy this blessed journey we call homeschooling.
Barb