Truth, Love And Books

  I am no good at a lot of things. Parenting things. Teaching my kids to tie their shoes, I'm terrible. Sleep Training? I hated it. I followed the book and to no avail.  If you can get a four month old to sleep through the night - in my view - you must possess some sort of sneaky superpowers.  I know what you may be thinking: Why? Why blog about teaching other religions and worldviews. To kids no less.   Isn't there so much else on the list to teach them that is more significant? Like cooking and matching socks and punctuality and kindness. The question is legitimate.  Call me crazy but I wholeheartedly hold to the idea that deep thinking and searching for truth is vital. For us and our children. So allow me to demonstrate 5 reasons why every parent should learn and teach the major world religions to their children: 1) Teaching tolerance is imperative.  Kids need to see the importance of respecting other people's beliefs. Culture and environments can d...

My mom is an incredible mother and grandma. But I'm about to tell you a story that might initially lend you to think otherwise... Three weeks before I left home for college, my family of 7 went white water rafting. In our raft there were 9 people and 1 guide.  My siblings, parents, and I, plus a father-son duo. Before the somewhat perilous trip, the guide repeatedly informed us novice rafters of the importance of staying in the raft, even and especially when others may be thrown out.  My mom took the truth to heart.  Her and I, well... we tell this story quite differently.  From my vantage point, the one kid in the raft that wasn't her kid was nearly hurled into the swirling waters and all  the petrified young dude had to hold onto was someone's upper thighs. These thighs  - you guessed it- belonged to my mother. Well, Mom was not going in that water, she all but shook the 16 year old off her.  The kid was fine. But my stomach hurt. Tremendously. Fr...

 

Growing up as a home school kid in the 90's, "regular" school kids often voiced either their jealousy or genuine curiosity. "Do you get to sleep in ? What about snow days? Do you spend the day in your pajamas?  Your mom is your teacher?!  Now that I am a home school mom the opinions and questions are a bit different. " Oh I could never do that!" and " W hen are you going to send your kids to real school ?"  And my favorite: " How do you make sure your kids don't turn out weird ?"  We'll talk weird in a moment, but for now allow me to address the first statement. 1) When a fellow mom mentions that she could never home educate... Pardon my snarkiness, (all these thoughts truly are coming from a place of love) but yeah, I  categorically disagree. I've heard too many stories and seen too much evidence. I feel the need to even post on this because I believe there are a lot of moms out there that may want to give it a try but are...