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I've just read a book by Rob Parsons about nurturing children's faith, called "Getting Your Kids through Church without them Ending up Hating God". I highly recommend it. Rob Parsons runs a charity in the United Kingdom called Care for the Family.  I might be wrong in likening it to Focus on the Family in the US, but it seems to be an organization along the same lines. You can see my review about it at amazon.co.uk.

I have been home-educating my children for over seven years now, and though I have dabbled in various curricula from unit study to biblically based, they all have one general thing in common: a sympathy to the methods espoused by Charlotte Mason over a hundred years ago. If you want to know more about the Charlotte Mason method, you can Google the name, or start off with this website. In the meantime, I thought I would share with you the kind of schedule that my son, Killer, has responded to so well over the past year. I have made it myself using the "table" function in Word, printing it out, and then laminating it.  That way, he can use a water soluble pen to mark through his work every day, then wipe it all off for the next day, to start over again. To reproduce it here, I had to save it as a JPEG in "Paint", so it's got a bit garbled in translation.  I think you can get the gist of it, though.

This is a blog topic that deserves more attention than the 5 minutes I'm about to give it, but I've just got to get the thoughts off my chest right now (at 12:30 am!). What I should be doing now instead of blogging!! I've been home-educating for seven years, many of which were with a baby or a toddler and, as anyone with aforementioned personnel in their home-ed environment knows, they make for very challenging times. Now my youngest is 4 and a pretty good reader, plus well-focused and enjoys being at the school table with the others. Meanwhile, my 8-year-old boy, whom caused me many-a-problem with behaviour until we went to a cranial osteopath a couple of years ago, is turning into a really top-notch narrator a-la-Charlotte Mason method, showing me he actually can listen to my reading aloud, and can indeed tell back to me what I've been reading, including our latest nightly story of the Shakespeare play, "Merchant of Venice". So the long and the short of it i...

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