Homeschooling for
Impact
Child’sLife
Denise Mira
Gardening
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The homeschooling lifestyle . . . . allows
us to custom-garden each of our young
“shrubs” toward optimum growth.
The more I reflect on raising my five children and the parent- ing role I’ve played, the more it reminds me of gardening. Ac-
cording to statistics,
1 many of you reading
this article love nothing more than to have
your hands in the dirt, working away in
your landscaped beds of bushes and flow-
ers or raised-box vegetable gardens. Time
flies as you plan, purchase, dig, and plant
your living plot of ground, ever hoping
for God’s favor upon it, envisioning the
possibilities of beautiful blossoms and
luscious fruit. You carefully place protec-
tive shields to safeguard against critters
and frost so that your “babies” will be safe
when unattended. Lying in bed at night,
you worry that perhaps the storm that’s
predicted might beat too hard upon your
tender shoots, and you pray, yes, even for
your treasured vines and veggies.
