Re: Home schooling…pros and cons?
Peace queer
In Islam after a certain age the children are considered adults and their actions become their responsibilities … If I can put my children out with a strong sense of right and wrong, good interpersonal skills, good levels of tolerance, high ability to think critically, an ability to control desire and not to chase after every shiny object then I believe I have done my bit and that that would be enough for them in society as well. I don’t intend to shield them from the knowledge of society and set them loose after removing some sort of metaphorical blindfold - I intend to pace out the introduction of society to them, give them my experiences, moral stories, accounts of the companions, news and set them questions through challenging scenarios to understand what they need to do as part of their nurturing process. I will test their patience … inshaAllah to all of that … but I hope not to put them in to a situation where I cannot manage it until they are ready to manage it by themselves … Loss of temper, violence, damage, theft, envy, patience and jealousy are all in my view symptoms of human weaknesses - these I am going to try to get them to overcome … some humans have more some have less naturally - so they will each need to recognise how they find any of those traits easier or harder to handle … but whatever is the case they need to dislike them in the heart and they need to like and be drawn to good traits.