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Homeschoolers: here's how to avoid or overcome discouragement: Stop focusing on results. Results are essential: we want our kids to learn academic skills. However, when we focus on results, we give ourselves D's in all our efforts. We get discouraged, dejected, and distracted.
You cannot control results or outcomes because many subjective variables are involved, such as your children's attitudes and abilities and all the issues and changes life brings us daily. So, instead of focusing on results, focus on the principles, the process, and the promise. These three ideas will help you avoid discouragement and help you focus on a long obedience in the right direction.
1. Principles:
Always remember why you're doing what you're doing. Put the big WHY everywhere in your home and keep it on your phone to keep yourself from being discouraged.
2. Process:
Focus on sowing seeds into your children's lives that you know God will grow. Keep your focus on the process and not on the results. Results will often discourage you. You will be tied to the ups and downs of how your kids are feeling or how they are doing. But if you stay focused on the process, put your head down, and walk step-by-step in a straight line toward your goals, you will not be disappointed.
3. Promises
Remember that God promises to grow the good things we sow. Please keep your eyes on him as the one who will produce the seed. Please keep your eyes focused on him and his promises that nothing you do will return in vain because your words to them are his words to you. So, take your eyes off results and focus on the One who sends the rain to grow the seeds we sow.
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