Togetherness is a major reason you homeschool your kids to begin with. It's a family affair. Discipleship means you're spending TIME together, and we can all see that the days are fleeting. These kids grow up so fast. It requires QUANTITY time in order to find QUALITY time, doesn't it? Sure, in those hours, chaos sometimes occurs, the corrections crop up, squabbling with their siblings— it's all there. But what else happens? It has to do with the sweet, unforeseen moments only presenting themselves because of the sheer number of them available. The sunny rays of QUALITY-based moments inch in and land on you—those unplanned beams of light entering a conversation that you had no idea would veer off into such a divine appointment. They simply showed up, unannounced. And they were so good. After all, we serve a good and sovereign God who orders our days (Psalm 37). Out of the blue you find that you've just experienced the most important of discussions with your child (we call them heart talks) that you never would have expected that day. Certainly unplanned, and fully impromptu, they just happen. Quality moments occur because you have provided the TIME—the QUANTITY—the needed hours for those beautiful interruptions to appear. God takes care of the rest because He loves us. He is always working to sanctify His own. He uses time to do it.
You teach them to follow the Lord, and you're teaching them the academics they need for life.
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