This trusty old blog has been around for quite some time. Now it is 2020 and the US pretty much has been forced to homeschool their own children because of the crisis. As synchronicity would have it, I had major surgery on March 11 and I was already off of work for the next 6-8 weeks. It’s a bonus that my daughter, now 13 and in the 8th grade, is home with me until April 8th. Much has changed since I started this blog. Occasionally I go back and read it just to see how far we’ve come. As of today, my sons are 24, 22, 17, and my daughter is 13. The only one still homeschooling is my 17 year old. My daughter enrolled in public school for the 8th grade because she desires to be accepted to a boarding school and she felt like she would learn more discipline if she were in a school setting. I keep trying to convince her that homeschooling is more respected by higher learning facilities but she isn’t buying it. LOL!
Which brings me to this day. It is Monday, March 16, 2020 and the first day of the mandatory homeschooling period in Kentucky. Leading up to this day, my Spirit has been nudging me to start branding myself as a homeschool consultant. A friend I met through Facebook contacted me one day and strongly urged me to do the same. All signs said DO IT KILA. But I didn’t. And then today a different friend said Kila, it’s your time. People want help because they don’t know what to do. That friend also called me a couple of months ago when she decided to homeschool. I said OK. Here I am!
I, Kila Shali, was born a teacher. When I was 5 years old, I wouldn’t let my younger cousins go play outside without doing the homework I assigned them. I helped others in school with their assignments because I was always the first to finish mine. It is only natural that I never doubted that I could teach my own children. The only reason I didn’t want to become a public school teacher was because I believed in self-directed learning from the start. I have always thought it was strange that a child should learn a certain thing because they were a certain age. People are so different and there is not one age of readiness for any skill. Sometimes I still read my “why” paper that I wrote my freshman year in college, 2 years before the birth of my firstborn. My “why” is what helped me stay focused on homeschooling no matter what; And there have been quite a few whats! That’s another blog post. LOL!
