From a homeschooled student writing a research paper: “This complex topic was a lot less complex when I knew less about it.”

Someone else on another homeschooling blog mentioned “the cover of The Teaching Home magazine,” and I immediately remembered all those covers from the 1980’s of beautiful homeschooling families wearing matching pastel colored outfits and modest smiles. I also remembered this song by Rob and Cindy Shearer of Greenleaf Press, and I wish you could hear it sung. Classic.

Song Lyrics ‘On The Cover Of The Teaching Home’
(to the tune of The Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)

Well, we started home schooling, didn’t waste time fooling
Heard the Moores had a name we should know.
Better late than early, we weren’t in any hurry
Kid was 18 months or so…
We went to all the seminars, we talked to all the stars
We had our stuff down really cold.
Now the kid’s gotten bigger and we want our picture
On the cover of the Teaching Home.

Chorus:
Teaching Home…. Wanna see my picture on the cover
Home…. Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Home…. Wanna see my smiling face
On the cover of the Teaching Home

Well, I told my bride about Mary Pride,
You know our family was just too small.
You can teach just one, but a dozen’s more fun.
We got desks up and down the hall.
We teach K thru 6, we know all the tricks,
Except for how to see each other alone.
Now the family’s gotten bigger and we want our picture
On the cover of the Teaching Home…

(Chorus)

We use Bob Jones, Abeka, and a video school,
We know every phonics song.
We teach from 9 to 5, we got a home enterprise.
What could we be doing wrong?
We got field trips booked until the end of June.
We’ve built a model to scale of Rome
We’re not gettin’ any richer and we want our picture
On the cover of the Teaching Home.

(chorus)
lyrics, copyright Rob & Cyndy Shearer, 1990.

If you remember the covers or the song or both, you’re definitely a veteran homeschooler.

I read this story of how an atheist came to faith in God and thought it was eminently sensible and believable: “I went home and decided that I was going to decide. I was going to either ask God to come into my life, or I was going to end the subject completely and never allow myself to consider the possibility of God again. I was tired of dealing with this decision. I was tired of thinking about it.”