My Mentoring in the Classics book for this month is Paradigm Shift. Not my favorite book, but I am glad I'm reading it. It puts everything Oliver DeMille has been saying for years into one easy to read place and I do believe in these 7 trends.
This is what was difficult, hard, interesting???!!!! I joined the girls from church for an impromptu gathering at the park... we ditched homeschool to go play at the park. As the kids and I drove there I listened to my intro to Paradigm Shift and then I got together with all these moms who have kids in school. Suddenly I realized I don't relate to them anymore, last year with my kids in school I could relate. This year my paradigm has shifted so far from theirs that there isn't much for us to discuss. They are still stuck in the old paradigm and I am in Oliver DeMilles, explanation of where the world is gong. If I said what I was thinking I would have for sure been labeled as weird. Oh wait -- I was already labeled weird when I pulled my kids back out of school. I should have said what I was thinking.
When they were talking about signing their 4th graders up for the right classes so they would have the best chance at college I should have said "college is not going to matter as much as an education in the new economy."
When they talked about how to get their 2nd graders to finish their homework I should have said "family time and having a good family education of reading great classics together is what matters."
My kids and I are both feeling the separation between those who homeschool and those who do not. Those who are fighting for freedom and those who are following. Those who want greatness and accomplishing their life goals in a new economy and those who are doing the best they can but following an old mindset of school.
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