Feed My Lambs vs. Free The Lambs

Is Your Philosophy of Education Really Helping Your Child? Find out how Christ's command "Feed My lambs" gradually succumbed to "free the lambs" of America's educational pastures. Understanding the difference between these two philosophies can best help you "restore the years of the locusts" (Joel 2:25) educationally for your children. Through Christ, what a difference you can make in the lives of His precious lambs!

Building Godly Character through Seatwork

"Seatwork activities" refers to student writing exercises such as workbook pages, spelling lessons, writing lessons, etc. The character-forming goal of seatwork activities is to train students to be committed disciples in how they perform their seatwork tasks as a pattern for every other area of life. The character of a committed disciple is to do what Christ did. Christ was under authority. He came to do the Father's will, and not His own (John 5:30)...

How Not To Provoke Your Child To Anger
Workshop given at Southeastern TX Homeschool Association (SETHSA) in Houston, TX, on June 3, 2000. 

Normally, having a struggle with anger isn't something anyone likes to admit. Yet, the problem appears to be epidemic — even in Christian homes. According to Chapman and Campbell, in the five Love Languages of Children:

"... the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger. If your child does not handle his own anger well, it will damage or destroy him. The mishandling of anger is related to every present and future problem your child may have — from poor grades to damaged relationships to possible suicide. It is imperative that you do all you can to safeguard your child now and in the future."

Phonics in a Nutshell (Anyone Can Teach Phonics)

Using God's educational pattern to "add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge" (2 Pet 1:5), Christ-Centered Curriculum helps to lay a precious foundation of Jesus Christ during your children's most formative years. Faith, virtue, knowledge for the mother first, then for the child. As you moms continually grow in Christ, you'll have more to give to your children... The following information is designed to help you adapt these fine teaching tools to best fit your family's needs. We'll begin with a look at phonics and how to apply phonics to reading. Then we'll briefly cover the four characteristic temperaments/learning styles and the three modalities (how children remember best)...

Early Childhood: To Teach or Not To Teach

It's been said, "Give me a child the first six years of his life and you can do what you will with him thereafter." During that short period, the bulk of a child's personality, character, habits, and intellectual makeup is established. And, the late preschool years are the most common for salvation. Because of the extreme importance of these formative years, the decision about whether to teach - or not teach - merits much prayer... One might say that we are in a spiritual warfare for our children's souls. The battle lines are clear. God says, "All your children shall be taught of the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children" (Isa. 54:13, NKJV). The world's view was captured in women's lib advocate and Ms. magazine editor Gloria Steinem's statement: "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God."

Already born with an "I-want-what-I-want-when-I-want-it" nature, preschoolers are ripe to fall prey to a love for the world and all that is in it (1 John 2:15-16). This is especially true when it comes to education. Therefore, we need to be particularly cautious when selecting curriculum materials because there is no such thing as neutrality (Matt. 12:30)...

What Makes Christ Centered Math "Stand Out" from Other Programs?

Did you know that all four mathematical operations are recorded in the Genesis 1-2 creation account? For example, God made a day and he divided it into evening and morning. He made one day; then He added something to it. He commanded animals to multiply upon the earth, adding numbers of "like things" to His creation. He subtracted a rib from Adam; then He added another human, Eve.

Mathematically, addition is the basis of all other operations. So we start there. The first thing God did was to add something to the nothing that existed-the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1). His first act was one of addition. Addition is generally used in connection with added blessings, usually a result of obedience. However, sometimes the term add has an undesirable connotation such as when God adds a curse as a result of disobedience. Addition and subtraction are operational inverses. Inverse means "reverse order." In other words, it is a doing/undoing relationship...