A Must-Read Blog by Stephanie Metz

Here is blog that, whether you homeschool your children or not, EVERY parent should read. This lady has blogged everything that I have been thinking for a few years now. And it's not just parents that are, in the long run, going to hurt their children's ability to cope in the real world. The schools are pushing things too far, as well as the government, in their efforts to "help" children. Instead of sheltering them and teaching them to deal with failure (which, I believe that without a child never succeeds because they need to learn from their mistakes).

I realize that it's much easier to enforce a dress code than to teach students to dress modestly. I realize that it's easier to ban toy guns from school than to teach respect for the real thing, but when schools start expelling students for picking up a stick to use to play cowboy out on the playground or eating their Pop-Tart in a manner that leaves a gun-shaped piece of food, enough is enough. What happened to encouraging kids to entertain themselves, that "you don't have to have all the new toys to have fun - make your own"? Did no think that for a child to "eat" his Pop-Tart into a gun shape was not pretty creative? After all, there ARE still gun cookie cutters out there for the now rare cowboy-themed birthday parties.

There are so many things wrong with the way the world's way of thinking regarding children, that I could rant on here for days. But The Metz family has gotten their life in perspective. Stephanie Metz's blogs are refreshingly blunt and to the point but also carry so much truth in them. Read for yourself...

The Metz Family: Why My Kids Are NOT the Center of My World