S2/E10 - KONOS Testimonies (Social Study Subjects)

Helpful Links:Learning outdoors with Oikos/KONOS LivingOikos/KONOS Living with an Only ChildSean and Lee-Anne's Home Education Testimony: Our KONOS ExperienceKONOS Q&AHome Educating Testimonies | Young AdultsTranscript:Hi there, thanking you for joining me on this episode 10 of the season 2 Oikos family ministries podcasts.I am glad you did because I would like to share with you more on the KONOS topic. I received an email from a mom a couple of days ago where she shared with me her heartache regarding her very stressful, strained and tearful year of home educating. My heart ached for her, and then…. it began to sing ! I will tell you why.This mom shared in her letter that she had spent some time watching videos on the Oikos YouTube channel and found that the Oikos lifestyle, most specifically KONOS LIVING, is what they would like to embark on for their continued home education journey. I was VERY PLEASED to read this because this is precisely why I am putting a focus on these podcasts to share KONOS living because the experience of this lifestyle can be so very different to one of stress, strain and tears.However, I have also been hearing from some families that they have actually found strain while ‘trying to do KONOS LIVING’. And there is the problem right there. One does not have to try to do KONOS….it is more a case of adopting the lifestyle choice and then living it. If we were to liken it to say, changing your diet choices, cutting out sugar for example, that may initially put some strain on you but due to the conviction you may have about it and the result you want to achieve you will then adapt more easily than if you were not convicted about it.So if you are one of those parents who is taking strain with KONOS living it could be due to a couple of things. Not being convicted by the lifestyle choice in the first instance Trying desperately to make it be something it is not….for example a curriculum that you follow rather than a parent tool to assist in raising, shaping, moulding characters AND have FUN while learning. Wanting to see specific kinds of results from your efforts and not seeing them.I’m going to stop with those 3 points for now and dive deeper into each one in future podcasts.For now….let me leave you with this, my heart conviction for sharing this lifestyle with you is because of the results, the fruits, which I have to share.To have known a home educating lifestyle (from the birth of our children through to their adult lives) to have been an experience of fun, joy, treasured memories, loving learning….the list goes on, and then on top of that to see confident, equipped adults that are dealing with whatever life throws at them……..why would I not share this with parents who are traveling the home education road.So thank you for being here…to listen to what I have to share with you. I will do the deeper dive regarding the points I made in this podcast in future podcasts. I hope you will join me again…..bye for now…till next time.–Website: https://oikosfamily.co.za/Patreon: https://patreon.com/oikos This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit oikosfamily.substack.com