Have you ever wanted to meet a real, live, homeschool graduate? Have you wondered if what you've been told is true concerning the product of home education? Do you have burning questions regarding how home ed graduates adjust to life after home, what they do later, and how they look back on their … [Read more...] about New Series … “Ask the Grad!”
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Don’t Believe the Propaganda, Part I
One big reason parents fear to educate their own children is due to the war of words we are engaged in. The current culture has bought the propaganda: You cannot teach your children. God's plan is radically different: Train up a child in the way he should go. Ever since "You shall not surely die," … [Read more...] about Don’t Believe the Propaganda, Part I
The Good Does Not Desire a Like Portion with the Wicked
Last week, I read Antigone by Sophocles. This Roman drama was easily read in a sitting while my children played outside. They played in the sunshine merrily while I grappled in my armchair with the conflicting themes of familiar honor and absolute obedience. By the end of the play, I had … [Read more...] about The Good Does Not Desire a Like Portion with the Wicked
Sing a Song of Woe, But May the Good Prevail!
Even as trouble, bringing memory of pain, Droppeth o'er the mind in sleep, So to men in their despite cometh wisdom. I finished reading Agamemnon, the Greek tragic play by Aeschylus. The tragic story of a king who sacrifices his daughter to win an epic battle offers many proverbs for the modern … [Read more...] about Sing a Song of Woe, But May the Good Prevail!
Still Achieving, Still Pursuing
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=pencil+paper&iid=37879" src="0036/598a6e2c-e9ef-4afd-b184-a3d141ecb184.jpg?adImageId=12289437&imageId=37879" width="500" height="374" /] I have taken a small break from writing here lately to work on other projects. First off, I had an article … [Read more...] about Still Achieving, Still Pursuing
When You Rise Up
One Book I think every parent should read is When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling by R.C. Sproul, Jr. More than a book on home education;this is a treatise on Biblical parenting. Sproul cuts away at our modern ideas of education and child rearing to get back at the true nature … [Read more...] about When You Rise Up
