This post is just a reminder for those of you who live in Wales. If you have not yet signed the open letter to the Education minister please do so here.
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It is always exciting when children who have been home educated grow up and start taking an interest in helping the next generation so I thought I'd let you all know know about a zoom event some home-educated youngsters have organised. It is called Ask Now the Beasts (a reference to Job 12: 7-9) and consists of a week of sessions for families who are interested (or would like to be interested!) in wildlife, nature and creation generally. The goodies on the programme include family devotional sessions, sessions for younger children (3-8) on weather, plants, birds insects and sessions for older children on some interesting-looking topics. There is also a daily wildlife art session for children in the early afternoons led by well-known wildlife artist, Philip Snow. The event starts on 2nd August and is very low cost. The details and booking info are here.
I'm impressed by the initiative shown here and I think there are a lot of families who would enjoy what is on offer. I get the impression that a number of Christian parents may be reviewing their commitment to sending their children to school in the wake of the current wave of transgender ideology in schools.
I certainly hope so anyway. The Christian Institute and others do a noble job fighting what seems to be a rearguard action against the determined march into classrooms of Mermaids and similar organisations whose objectives seem to be to confuse and sexualise young children. But parents must be aware that children have no “back button”. Once a perverted idea is planted or a perverted image is seen it can NEVER be removed. However much input you try to have on your child's school you run a high risk. You cannot wait until the Christian Institute has succeeded. You have to protect your child now. If your child is shy about mentioning such things to you (surely not unlikely!) you may never find out what has happened in any case. In the past, I have been criticised for including Margaret Clarkson's little book Suzie's Babies on volume 4 of the Mothers' Companion. Some parents felt that young children should not be taught about such things until they were older. I have a great deal of sympathy with this point of view. However, if you read the Christian Institute's excellent guidance for parents with children in schools and then look at Margaret Clarkson's gentle tale of a mother hamster and her family, the contrast will strike you. If you home educate, unless your children live in an unhealthily isolated environment, they will come across other children who have been fed the perversions outlined in the CI guide. Even if they only associate with other home schooled children, some of those children will have had contact with school children. I think your children are better off if you introduce them to the truth first. Then at least they will be shocked by what they hear rather than accepting it. I've noticed a small mistake in “English Sheet 40: the er sound” in volume 4 of the Mothers' Companion flashdrive. You can correct this yourself by substituting the word “plot” for the word "sort" on line 9 of the text or if you prefer to return your flashdrive to me I will update it for you. New flashdrives will have the correct word. If you decide to return the flashdrive for updating, please contact me first so I can give you our new address.
We've moved! After a few stressful days I'm finally sorted out and up and running again. If you've been thinking about buying a Mothers' Companion flashdrive now is the time to do it as I'm all organised now and can get orders off straight away again. A reminder that there are still plenty of goodies for free almost every day on https://christianhomeeducation.weebly.com/. Lots of lessons for all the family with an emphasis on Christian worldview. There is a lesson for almost every day in June dealing with something related to the particular date.
I don't usually point Mothers' Companion users or readers of this blog at other websites for information. I don't usually stick my head above the parapet and comment on current affairs directly even when they impinge on home education. I try to avoid anything that would suggest I want to tell you all what to think. Today I'm doing something different and I'm doing it because opportunities to make a balanced, fair decision on the basis of the evidence seem to be hard to come by on this topic. There is a lot of wrong information, misinformation, propaganda and muddled thinking available on the topic of C19 and what we should do about it. Here is something well researched, sober and accurate that everyone should read.
Forgive me, but I would not like anyone to say I did not do what I could. May God bless you all as you continue to educate your little ones in these difficult days. s Here is a link to a colouring competition featuring Alfred the Great. Anyone who is studying chapter four of The Story of God's Dealings with our Nation or who is reading either of the Wulfgar books would find this very enjoyable. The picture shows the young Alfred and his mother and brothers.
I don't know whether it's a feature of becoming an old lady but I've found that, just like my mother at around the same age, I've recently become very interested in Bible memorisation. We tend to load children with short texts to memorise and there is nothing wrong with that, however, I've discovered that it is easier to memorise one long passage than a number of isolated verses. As a child any kind of memorising filled me with dread. I don't know if that was just laziness on my part or whether I genuinely found it harder than most but I have certainly found that memorising now (with no pressure of saying the text out loud to a class full of Sunday School peers) is easier than I thought. My husband bought me Thomas Meyer's excellent book The Memorization Study Bible which just the whole New Testament set out in a format designed to make memorisation easier, together with some hints and tips on techniques from an expert memoriser. However, I think you can do it just as easily without any special aids if you want to. Maybe that is the key that I didn't have as a youngster!
I just found out about an anual essay competition which would interst Mothers' Companion users. The organisation is American but they make it clear anyone can enter from anywhere in the world. There is nothing like a competition to inspire budding writers!
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