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When educating your children at home, you have the freedom to teach them sound science that is presented from a Christian worldview. “Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space,” geared at elementary students, fits the bill very well. This text is part of a series by Stephanie L. Redmond which include Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. I enjoyed teaching from this text for a number of reasons including: it requires little to no teacher prep time; it is enjoyable to work through; being from a Christian worldview, it is God-honoring; and it is written in a conversational tone that is easy to read aloud and appeals to the younger audience.

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Originally posted 2009-07-16 20:00:01.

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This collection of chemist biographies is strikingly interesting and easy to read, very informative and child-friendly.

Leadership education is a method of bringing up your kids to become respected future leaders, businessmen, church leaders and statesmen in the community.

As homeschooling numbers grow across the country, one thing can be said to be true. The reasons are changing that are leading others into a decision to homeschool.

Early on in the homeschool movement, virtually all academic instruction took place at home. After all, if you just took your kids out of school, where else would they be learning? This worked fine for all of us for awhile, and then a strange thing happened.

It is critical that children receive not only the 3 R’s of education, but also the skills that enable them to become productive and responsible adults.

“You can’t prepare for the SAT.” Educational Testing Service, the company that writes the SAT, has worked hard to convince people that they cannot improve their scores by studying for the test.

The public schools that most kids attend have several disadvantages compared to homeschools. The main idea of one curriculum for all the students and one teacher for an entire class brings the possibility of individual attention to each student to near zero.

Most of us start the school year with great plans and high hopes but it often doesn’t take very long to realize that we just don’t live in a perfect homeschooling world.

Many homeschoolers live a lifestyle of learning all through the year and never consider what month it is. They are free to work at their own pace and not be bound by the calendar year. But other homeschool moms may have very good reasons to be concerned about finishing their school work by June.