"Mummy, I want to go to school..."
Assalamo aleykum.
I haven't been updating this blog for a very long time, mostly because I have been too (disorganisedly) busy.
About two weeks ago, while re-organising the children's bookshelf, we stumbled across a folder that was given to us by the Islamic preschool Yusef attended for a year before we moved city. He started flicking through it's pages, where samples of his work were kept with some pictures of him doing it (back then we hadn't a ban on pictures, astaghfirullah) and rather impersonal comments written; while I was thinking of how basic and uninspiring it all seemed compared to homeschooling, Yusef started to longingly caress the pages, looking increasingly depressed.
He said he knew the old school was for small children, but now that he was a big boy we should try a big boy school.
I felt crushed.
I tried to hide my tears as I was washing the dishes.
As soon as I felt like I could hold back I went to him and promised that insha'Allah we would do such wonderful things together that he won't miss school anymore.
May Allah guide me and help me honour this promise.
As a matter of fact I had been slacking and had gone completely off the track homeschooling-wise. But - alhamdulillah - thanks to some lovely fellow homeschoolers (Jazahum Allahu khayran), inspiration was just around the corner...
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