When Satan attacks through family members

    As some of you know, when Hubby and I decided to homeschool our boys, we/I got a lot of opposition from family members.  I have tried over the past three years to explain that we aren't crazy, this wasn't a rash decision, and that we really are serious about our children's education.  Here's the deal:  I am a Christian.  I homeschool my children.  I do not believe that my sons have to be in public school in order for them to learn and have a social life.  I spent the first five years of their lives teaching them.  I taught them love.  I taught them how to walk, talk, dress themselves, feed them selves, and how to hold a cup.  I taught them manners, and how to interact with people.  I have taught them conflict resolution, and how to be a friend.  I taught them their letters, numbers, shapes, colors, etc.  What a car is, a building is, different animals, and so on.  Now I am teaching them multiplication, division, and the Pythagorean Theorem.  My children are learning how to build sentences, and how to combine sentences to make paragraphs.  They are learning about the constitution, geography, world history, US history, voting and the difference between gross and net pay.  They learn about science: Space, earth, biology, chemistry, human anatomy, plants, etc.  My children learn art, music, and greek and latin roots to words.  Porthos has decided that he wants to learn french this year, as well as take a cooking course.  He and Aramis are in a karate class that they attend 2-3 days a week.  Porthos just attended his first competition a few days ago.  All three boys participate in local theater, and the younger two attended drama camp for two weeks.  The oldest is in Boy Scouts.  We have weekly park days with other homeschoolers.  Church on Wednesday evenings.  Athos volunteers at the local food bank twice a week.  All three have participated in music performances with other homeschoolers.  Guess what?  THEY HAVE FRIENDS.