Working Your Way Out of a Job

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

That should be one of our main objectives. As parents and home educators, our goal should be to work our way out of a job. We’ll always be Mom and Dad, advisers, confidants and hopefully friends, to our grown children, but the time of day to day parenting will come to an end, as it should.

When you’re a parent of a little one, you sometimes wonder if these days will ever end-the unending questions, the arguing, the constant need of attention. As a parent of grown children and a “veteran” homeschooling mom, I can tell you those days do end–and you wonder “How did that happen? Where did the time go? There’s so many things I wish we had done. There’s so much more about life I wanted to teach them.” If you’ve done your job, those days of relying on you do end. That’s what is supposed to happen. Really!!

What a joy to step back and realize you have raised healthy, strong, compassionate and caring adults who are a joy to be around and stand up for what they believe! What else could you ask for?