Your Reluctent Writer

Posted by Michelle Osborn on Aug 29, 2018

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Guest post by Kim Kautzer

In January 2008, in faraway Nottingham, England, my then-23-year-old son Ben turned in a 63-page dissertation. In so doing, he capped off a year of grad school and became a candidate for a master’s degree in philosophical theology.

Why do I share this? Because…

Your eighth grader can’t spell his way out of a paper bag.
Your sixth grader keeps wadding up his paper in frustration and hurling it across the room.
Your kitchen table has become a battleground.
This very morning, you asked yourself why you even bother homeschooling.
Most days you just can’t believe your child will actually grow up, mature into a productive adult, and find his place in the world.

Because many years ago, I was in your shoes.

At times, it’s hard to believe there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Try as we might, they just don’t seem to get it. We plan out our year, buy curriculum, write lesson plans. We review spelling words again and again. And again. We go over grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. In our weary minds, we think that we might as well whack our heads against a wall for all the good it’s doing.

Stepping Stones

With a reluctant boy writer (in particular), it’s easy to grow discouraged and think you’ll never see growth or progress.

I invite you to take a trip with me back to Ben's middle school years by reading samples of his writing from those years:.....continue reading

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