The website I had the entire Raising Giants program on was costing me over $700 a year. I found out you folks like free things, and were not going on to any of my other material. So I decided to put most of it up for free, but I can't do free and keep paying $700 a year. So I found this free site (at WIX) and bought a new domain name for it. Sorry for any inconvenience it may have caused you.
I need to hear back from all of you on how many completed the reading program (and what changes you would like to have), and how many still need it up so you can finish it. I'm also interested in how many are interested in the How to Teach and What to Teach segments, so I can decide what to upload next. All the material is written and videotaped, but it still takes time to put it all up.
I taught in the public schools in the Seattle area and in Hawaii, and am amazed at what the teachers are saying and doing now. I never made comments about religion or politics in the classroom. Few teachers did. Now it seems that they are more concerned with indoctrinating our children than in teaching them school subjects. We can see the results of this "education" at the high school/college level.
Part of the reason for this is that many schools (Junior High, High School) use a history textbook by Howard Zinn, which completely tears down America. It offers two paragraphs about Abraham Lincoln. It paints our founding fathers as evil, and glorifies Socialism and Communism. If you can, get a copy of your child's history text and check it out. Then go to your local school board meetings and shake things up if you need to.
For starters, here's a Bible verse I used to keep my children from believing everything their teachers told them. It might help you if you have kids in public school.
Ps. 119:98-99 "Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. I have more insight than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my meditation." I used this verse to protect my children against false teachings from their secular schoolteachers. I explained to them that their teachers knew more about history or math or spelling, but that they as children often knew more about God and the Bible than their teachers. I did this with each child as they started kindergarten and repeated it each year for a while. (I homeschooled my grandchildren, not my children.) They would come home to laughingly relate something a teacher said that went against our values, and were not upset or shaken by the teacher's statement.
So...how can I help overworked parents (like many of you?) to raise their children to be the leaders of tomorrow, confident and able to face the world? In other words, what exactly does it take to be a successful parent? Especially a successful home schooling parent?
Thanks in advance for sharing your parenting worries with me. Remember to go to the comment part of this site and send me your comments to help me know what part of the Raising Giants program I need to put up next. I really appreciate your help.
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