School

When you have kids other than a name the most important decision you will ever make is how and where to send them to school.  We have so many choices today, home schools, online schools, private schools, charter schools and public schools.  My eldest child graduated from a top rated charter school.  What does that mean?  He is not going to Harvard or MIT he is joining the United States Air Force.  We joke that it is the family business since both my husband and I grew up military and he retired from the Air Force.  I truly believe there is a right school for every child the tricky part is knowing what is right.  I have a typical teenage son, he loves sports and, he also happens to be a hard worker and smart.  He would be miserable in a charter school like my eldest went to.  There were no sports teams or drama clubs.  The school ratings came out for my area today, and my son's school got a C, but he is extremely happy and fulfilled.  I can only hope that all the extracurricular stuff and his 4.0 will counteract that the school is not top notch. My youngest daughter has challenges, she is bright, articulate, and artistic, but school can sometimes be very frustrating and tiring for her and as a result me.  If I could have a guarantee that the school she is in right now is going to provide for her needs without giving me a major headache all my problems would be solved.  Life doesn't work that way.  I have to hope that the choices I made are the best choices I could make and leave the rest up to God.  We bring forth children into this world full of promise and hope.  Sometimes, they bring special challenges that are apparent right from the start, and sometimes those challenges make themselves apparent much later.  Being a parent is a very tough job and we all know people who seem to do a much better job then us, and on the flip-side we know people who we believe are messing it up.  There is no perfect parent, actually there is one,  God the father.  He even left us a book of instructions.  It is a long book.  It is a great book, but in the thick of things easy answers are hard to find.  To all the parents out there, don't fret do your best and pray about the rest.