Do you know what I am going to say? OK, here it is. Time and time again I meet a home educating family and somewhere in the course of the conversation I ask which church they belong to. Awkward silence. ‘We don’t belong to a church at the moment’. In fact, according to my own …
A Concerning Aspect of the Christian Home Ed Movement Read More »
Most people have some sort of routine to the day or to the week. We know which days we go to church, have regular meet-ups or do the shopping. We know when mealtimes need to be ready, which bits of the day are for opening the books and when the family gathers together for devotions. …
Some time ago I stumbled across the writings of the Puritans and for several years their work formed the staple of my reading. Centuries after they put pen to paper, their insights into human nature struck a chord with me and changed the way I understood sin and the grace of God forever. Of course, …
Dealing With Sin in Our Children by Arthur Hildersham Read More »
A Priority Read The home educating life is the bookworm’s paradise and if you are interested in classical education, then ‘The Well-Trained Mind’ is a priority read. I have returned to my volume again and again over the years for inspiration and direction. Although this is the book that originally set our faces towards classical …
‘The Well-Trained Mind’ by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise Read More »
It is tricky to define a ‘large family’ precisely. However, for most of us our family starts to feel a tad on the biggish side once we have more than one child to manage! As our second child turned out to be twins, I found myself dealing with three children under the age of two …
A common cry from Christian home educators up and down the country is that they are do not know any other like-minded families in their geographical area. I can identify with this heartfelt cry to some extent. We moved to a new city several months after the birth of our fifth child due to my …
On the one hand, it would be so much easier if there were an exact formula for ensuring the salvation of our children. On the other hand, a guaranteed formula would also guarantee the puffing up of our pride (after all, we were clever enough to figure it out!). It would also deny us the …
There is a charming note of honesty amongst parents. Pretty much everybody admits to responding to their children in anger from time to time. Children lack the decorum of adults. Adults generally gauge the appropriateness of a situation before raising a touchy subject. Children, on the other hand, are blissfully unaware of the fact that …
One of the biggest mistakes a home educator can make is to believe that home education converts our children. This line of thought leads to panic parenting – panic that all is lost if we do not use exactly the right curriculum, panic if we miss family devotions twice in row, panic if our children …
I think that home education is an all or nothing activity. We are either 100% in or we are out. There is not much room for the 50/50. I have been reflecting on several conversations I have had with families who were tentatively entering into home education with a view to ‘try it for a …
