Who do you think you are?!

Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing when I began my homeschool journey. I didn’t even realize I was homeschooling at first! My son was 2 years old and all I knew was that I wanted to do a good job. Unfortunately there is no book or scoring system to know if you’re doing a good job as a mother… all I could do was try my best.

I remember I was living in an apartment on campus at EMU, and I would stay up late coloring large shapes, covering them with clear tape to laminate them, and sticking them to the walls. When my son was awake, I would call out a color and go point to it with him. We did this over and over again, until he could recognize the colors and shapes. Soon, I would just sit on the couch calling out numbers and he would run to tap them. From there we added the words, again fake-lamination with clear packing tape, and he would find those as well.

I remember watching an infomercial about a program called “My Baby Can Read”. It came on all the time. The more I saw it, the more I thought “what if it works?” Whats the worse that could happen right? Well… after we started the program, I was 100% convinced that I had to keep teaching my son. He was learning more than I ever thought a child his age ever could! We did this program faithfully and the more he was able to pick up on, the more I exposed him to. I don’t know that I was a “good” mother, but I was doing the best I could.

This was our humble beginnings…