The Biblical Family
Articles about marriage, courtship, home schooling and parenting.
Commencement: An Alternative to Graduation
Commencement: An Alternative to Graduation
Sometimes children pay the price for the counter-cultural lifestyle of their parents. Early on in our home education adventure our little non-schoolers had to get used to answering questions like, “Why aren’t you in school today?” Though in those days (when homeschooling was a novelty) fabrications like “teachers meeting” were a tempting response in order to avoid penetrating stares, nowadays the children respond with a nonchalant “We homeschool,” secure in the general acceptance of… Continue reading
Fathers: It’s YOUR Home School
Fathers: It’s YOUR Home School
One of the notable features of the home education movement is that it is pretty much a women’s movement—at least down in the trenches.
In the day to day battle of planning and teaching, scheduling and organizing, disciplining and encouraging it is the mother who bears the brunt of the work, at least in the vast majority of homeschooling homes.
It is true, we fathers often adopt the title of “Principal” of our… Continue reading
Home Education: It’s God’s Idea
Home Education: It’s God’s Idea
There are many excellent reasons for choosing to teach your own children at home.
First, there is now incontestable evidence that on average children who are home schooled fare better academically than children of either public or private schools. This is not surprising since tutoring has always been recognized to be the best method of education.
Second, home educated children are spared the corrupting environment of the peer-oriented classroom and thus are benefited… Continue reading
College at Home, for the Glory of God
College at Home, for the Glory of God
by John Thompson
As habitual as birds heading south for the winter, a new brood of students takes wing each fall to college campuses around the world. Clearly, this seasonal migration is healthful for birds. But is the flocking of students to college campuses likewise wholesome? Is this recurrent pilgrimage the result of careful reasoning or cultural influences? Before sending our children to flight, our family decided to more thoroughly investigate… Continue reading
Should Christians Teach In Public Schools
Let Go Of The Rope
(Should Christians Teach In Public Schools)
I recently read a column in which the author suggests that even though public education is “over the edge” of a cliff, Christians are “holding the rope from which the system dangles.” He suggests letting go of the rope by removing our children from the government schools. Why should Christians prop up an anti-Christian institution by their participation? Let it die its well-deserved death.
This prompts the… Continue reading
Charity Navigator lists salaries of charitable organization leaders, but it is not a Christian website:
