‘What If the Influencers We Really Need Are Families?’: Mom Opts to Homeschool Amid Pandemic

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‘Family is God’s idea. God’s design. Families are the glue that holds society together.’

The choice was easy. Although it would probably lead to mud-clad children with bugs in their pockets and a wildly different way of living, JerriAnn and her husband, Matthew “Matt” G. Webb, were sure of their decision. It was August 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, and they had decided to homeschool their two children. Saddle up, boots on.

JerriAnn, 38, founder of a Christian nonprofit organization called Light Breaks Through, and Matt, 44, president of Genesis Timber, are passionate about helping people live with “purpose and hope” and advocating for the family unit. This was another opportunity to do just that.

“We believe decisions worth doing will always require sacrifice and investment,” said JerriAnn, who believes that healthy families are the true influencers who can rescue our society from spiraling further down on the endless road to moral depravity.

“The most attractive thing on the planet is a healthy family,” she said. “Families are the glue that holds society together. When families are fractured, society crumbles.

“There is much confusion today about identity and family as society calls good evil and evil good. I believe learning happens best at home. Homeschooling allows the parent to establish a foundation of identity based on biblical truth. Parents then raise strong children who in turn raise even stronger children.”

Finding it hard to accept the narrowing freedom and escalating social-distancing norms, even in the schools, the Webbs decided to homeschool their kids; they were ready to take some risks, so that their children could too. They wanted their children to test limits, run with abandon, laugh, and play untethered—and without the weighty ballast of fear.

“I tried to reconcile watching them run with freedom and abandonment through our yard fully alive to sitting inside a plexiglass bubble with a cloth strapped across their face in a socially constructed illusion of safeness,” JerriAnn said.

‘Home As the Center of Great Learning’

Finding it hard to accept the narrowing freedom and escalating social-distancing norms, even in the schools, the Webbs decided to homeschool their kids; they were ready to take some risks, so that their children could too. They wanted their children to test limits, run with abandon, laugh, and play untethered—and without the weighty ballast of fear.

By E. S. Armstrong

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