Category Archives: Child rearing

Should I Privately Educate My Child?

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Should I homeschool?  Can you recommend a good curriculum? Can you recommend a good private school? What about sports? What about calculus and physics and… I am inundated with these questions right now. So, here are my answers.

Background

Many people are questioning whether they should homeschool or better, privately educate their children now. We are bewildered about the results of the elections here, particularly for the school board. The government schools have plummeted in academic achievement, and have suddenly and covertly introduced pornography into the curriculum down to elementary. This seems to be true in many metro areas, although not in the smaller towns here.

I do not understand the election results. I am not a political analyst. I do think I know the spectrum of opinion, because of where I live and because I taught Sociology. But there is much about the situation I can not analyze. I do, however, know the basic answers to the questions about private education. I thought I would mention the background so those who live elsewhere understand why the questions are arising.

Answers

So, I answer whether I think you should privately education. Yes, it is your duty as a parent. This is the center of the Judeo-Christian mindset. Yes, I know, seldom have we been taught this, but nevertheless, it is true.

Can I recommend a good school or  good curricula. There are many. However, the way to begin finding what is best for  your child, is to consider what all your child needs to learn, what method he or she learns best, and only then start shopping for curricula or school. For this, I have a guide: the book  Learn at Home for Great Shalom. Get it. Amazon will sell it to you, print it and ship it to you. It would be cheaper than consulting with me –which I would be happy to do. For that, please see:  www.orgstrat.net

Texas Home School Coalition   https://thsc.org/home/

Home School Legal Defense Association  https://hslda.org/

If you live in the north Austin Texas metro area, and you want to  join with me to start a school, or if you child(ren)  has/have a specific learning need, please see :  http://sarles.greatshalom.org/

INSPIRING STORY OF ONE WOMAN PARENT REVIVAL IN SCHOOLS

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Today, hear the extremely inspiring story of Marta Silva’s one woman revival in schools by reaching out to parents. With nothing more than the mandate from God, Marta went to schools in her area (northeastern US), reached out to parents, held a meeting, told them the problems, and inspired them to an active revival.  It is an inspiring story! One woman caused a parent revival that addressed the problems of their children in schools.

I met Marta at Calvary Pentecostal Campground one summer on what for me what a worship retreat and reconnoiter. Marta was the bright spot, so full of energy and faith. She told me what she was doing, just as a woman and a mother — but full of faith and Spirit. She was going to various school surroundings, door to door, asking parents to a meeting, sometimes at the school depending upon the administration, telling parents the problems, and getting revival and mobilization for reform.

Hear her story. Be patient with the sound. Then, go and do thou likewise!

Tell What is True by Using Math

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This episode, on How to tell what is true, using math — and why it is a civic responsibility to do so — is a rerun.  First aired in June 2021. It is part of our pandemic packet. Would you like more on this? It is unimaginable to me that some people are still pushing the narrative… obviously fake narrative.

Would you go to a doctor who couldn’t pass Biology 101? Would you go to a doctor who had killed 40% of his patients? You would have known had this been posed toyou in 1800 in a little village. But now. Apparently, many do. Because they are mesmerized by TV reports.

Let’s do a little thinking. Let’s reason together, shall we? Teach your children.

Even the expert can be fooled. So, what I am saying is to learn and teach independent real thinking. BTW, it goes along with faith. No one smart, well-meaning urges blind faith. Jesus didn’t. Jesus healed people. God even said at one point: try me. (That was Malachi, btw.) Reasoning and faith go together. For now:  focusing on how to tell what is true.. by reasoning.

Soon, we will be talking once again about faith, healing, and miracles. We believe in them.

 

How to Tell What is True

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Brief course in how to tell what is true and what is not. And how to teach that to your children.

This is the episode to maybe start with on how to tell what is true, but we have several, and they keep coming.

Get our 20 rules paper.

Let us know what your questions are. Type in the comments, please.

Maybe I got an extra dose because my mother was an educator and my father was a lawyer. They sat with me to dissected television ads. They guided be about TV ads. They kept on, talking to me about vacuum cleaner salesmen when I was a young married and about financial product salesmen when I was in grad school. Learn. Now.

Like now.