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Getting Started Homeschooling

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Teaching Your Children

The way parents and teachers communicate with their children has an effect on their way of thinking and how they develop emotionally and educationally. As parents and educators you really need to make sure you are asking questions, encouraging, and making statements to your children as often as possible versus making commands and supplying them immediately with the correct answer. Treat your child with the same respect you would your best friend.

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Alpha Omega Publications

Wondering what’s the best homeschool curriculum Christian parents can use to successfully educate their
child? If you’re like most homeschool parents, you probably spend countless hours researching different
products to find the perfect resource to improve your homeschooling experience. Although quality, Christian

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Homeschooling Children

As parents we are homeschooling our children from the day they are born. We start out teaching our infants by talking to them, touching them, and playing with them. We continue to teach our children with these methods and also by setting an example and giving them the freedom to explore the world around them.

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A decision by The Texas Board of Education to change the curriculum in Texas social studies textbooks has brought on a tremendous amount of controversy between the democratic and republican members. A few of the primary decisions that were made and heavily argued over are the following:

•  The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”
•  The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”
• Classification of historic periods (still B.C. and A.D., rather than B.C.E. and C.E.)
• Students are now required to explain the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on global politics 
• Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir will be a required learning 
• There will be a reference to the Second Amendment right to bear arms in a section about citizenship in a U.S. government class
• Arguments over including hip-hop as an example of a significant cultural movement (Will Not happen)
• Denial to add the names or references to important Hispanics throughout history
• Teachers in Texas are now required to teach the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state.

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Can you imagine most of Americans not knowing what the true meaning of Easter is? Apparently, this is sad a reality.

According to a recent study done nationwide by the Barna Group asking Americans what their definition of the Easter holiday is found that although most Americans identified Easter as a holiday, little knew what the true meaning of Easter actually is. How many exactly? While 67% of Americans relate Easter as a religious holiday, only a staggering 42% of Americans said that the true meaning of Easter was the resurrection of Jesus or that it signifies Christ death and return to life. These numbers mean that over have of Americans have no idea what Easter means. Yikes!!

He Is Risen DVD

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My people believe that homeschool deprives kids of the socialization benefits that you get from public school. I believe that no matter what educational avenue a parent decides, the true result of any socialization is up to the parents and how they incorporate socilaization into the child’s life. There is an abundance of socialization tools out there now for homeschoolers and it is up to the parents to participate in them. You do not have to go to public school to do this. What do you think?

An article by Reverend Brenda Hoffman states, “Truth be told, most homeschool parents feel that the public school’s social life is enough of a reason for them to homeschool. This is because, in the majority of schools, the social life that takes place in public schools is mean-spirited, competitive, exclusive, status-seeking, snobbish, full of talk about who went to whose birthday party and who got what Christmas presents and who got how many Valentine cards and who is talking to so-and-so and who is not. This begins as early as first grade. You’ll see classes divide into leaders (usually the popular kids), their bands of followers, and other outsiders who you can tell have been excluded from these groups for one reason or another. Many parents will even note that they haven’t ever seen their children doing anything really mean or silly until their child(ren) went away to school.”

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Great Web letter by 13-year old Sarah Prater: