The Peanut Butter Family Home School

Have you ever heard of home schooling being associated with peanut butter? If you're like me, I hadn't either until I read this book years ago. In fact, I've read it several times now, over the years, because of the author's sense of humor and witty reflection of what life is like for a sometimes home school family. He reveals that home schooling "is full of surprises, challenges, and blessings."

Okay, but what is the connection with peanut butter you ask? Bill Butterworth associates home schooling and peanut butter with life. He feels life is very much like peanut butter. At different times it can be smooth or crunchy. But most importantly, like peanut butter on two slices or bread (or anything else it touches), home school families stick together.

Now, what would you call the house of a home school family that buzzes with constant activity, houses 4 young children, 2 adults, and a new baby on the way? Why Union Station, of course! As Bill says, "What else could you call" possibly a home that's like a train depot? It fits so well. Our home has all the craziness of a terminal, yet it also provides the place to rest between trips. So it was settled: Union Station. "

The chapter titles of this book are rather intriguing as well. Try to picture in your mind, Heppie Bread, Home-School, Trivial Pursuit, Return to Walton's Mountain, The Tale of a Whale, The Union Spy Station, and the list goes on.

As a Pastor, radio Bible teacher, and author Chuck Swindoll states, "I happily cast my vote for the real-life Peanut Butter Family. It is warm-hearted, fun-loving, always-encouraging statement of affirmation on the value of being in touch with your kids. What I appreciate the most is that it comes from a home where the parents practice a lot more than they deemed. You'll love it. "

Do you want a book that makes you smile? Read this one! I'm glad I did!!

"Article by Kelly Benedict, the longtime homeschooler of 17 + years, wife, Mama of 9 and grandmother of 6 (so far).

Homeschool Your Child For Free

Homeschool my child for free? You've got to be kidding, right? But what if I weren't kidding? What if you could pull resources from other areas and actually spend little to no money and still give my kids an awesome education? Does that order your curiosity? And Seem to good to be true?

In this book, "Homeschool Your Child For Free, you have access to more than 1.200 practical resources for home education on the internet.

LauraMeary Gold writes a popular weekly internet column for homeschoolers — and operates one of the largest homeschooling lists on the internet. She and her husband, Dan Post, are the parents of seven children homeschooling. Joan m. Zielinski is the mother of four, one of whom is LauraMaery. She herself is a professional educator of over thirty years.

Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprising, is that in the day and age, there is really isn't anything that you can't find on the Internet. I personally love doing research on the internet. When polled a large LauraMaery group of home schooling families, she found that 28% of them described themselves as primarily reliant on free resources, and 46 percent said that they relied on a mix of free resources and formal curricula. And I believe the numbers are rising.

This book is set up to enable you to develop a solid curriculum is customized for your children-that complies with the legal requirements for the area you live in. Once you've decided which subjects you'll be teaching and at what ages, you can gather teaching materials, are, texts, lesson plans, and everything else you require from the free resources categorized by subject throughout this book.

This 475-page book contains sections on Homeschool How-to 's, Core Curriculum, Essentials, Language Literacy Education, Mathematics Mastery, Art Appreciation, History Highlights, Music Marathon, Social Studies Skills, Humanities, Science, and the list goes on and on. You'll also find non-Internet free resources, advice from experts about how to teach academic subjects, and information from homeschooling parents about how they homeschool.

If using the Internet and it's free resources sounds appealing to you, then this is the book for you! I don't believe that you'll be disappointed! Take some time to check it out. You'll want to own this one!

Article by Kelly Benedict, the longtime homeschooler of 17 + years, wife, Mama of 9 and grandmother of 6 (so far).