Homeschool Village ~ Instilling Patriotism

The Homeschool Village is hosting another question/answer time today and the question is:

“How are you instilling a love for country during your homeschool time?”

Just in time for the 4th of July…

While we generally don’t do a lot of extra stuff during our homeschool time unless it’s a special occasion {i.e. during election time we studied about the presidents}, we have been talking more in general about our country with our children and I am so excited to start learning about early American history with them this year.

Before I put together our new calendar board I had a picture of our president up on the wall to pray for him every day. When I rearranged I took it down…and really need to print off another copy to put back up. Part of it was laziness on my part…and part irritation at specific leadership, which truthfully isn’t setting a good example to my kids about praying for our leadership, is it?

During our day we talk about things as they come up ~ our soldiers that serve to protect us and fight for the freedom that we have; respecting our leadership/government ~ even if we don’t agree with what they are doing; appreciating the freedoms that our country DOES allow us ~ and that other countries don’t allow.

There are many other things that we can do {that we don’t} to instill patriotism in our children. Will you leave a comment to share what you do with your family? I’ll be visiting the other ladies linking up to the Homeschool Village blog {go visit the new blog!!} to see what they do ~ but if you aren’t participating, leave a comment here too and share! :)