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Homeschooling began with energetic creativity and descended into boring, over organized drudgery. The Big Book of Homeschooling by Debi Pearl takes you back to the successful foundations of the home schooling pioneers.The Big Book of Homeschooling is the most entertaining, imaginative and helpful resource for homeschooling; bar none! It is full of creative ideas in teaching every subject you will need to cover to round out your child's education. It is a resource so fun that your children will want you to read the book out loud so they can decide on which ideas they will want to incorporate into their daily lives.To simplify your search for good reading material and free curriculums there are separate book lists for appropriate reading levels, and a list of websites that offer great curriculums. You will have at your fingertips a resource of where to find fun, wholesome homeschool freebies, book reviews, learning and teaching websites, and many other outstanding resources.And take note: This is not the wisdom from just one homeschooling mom; it is the combined wisdom of many triumphant homeschooling moms who have grown very successful kids to prove their ideas worked.What makes this book so different and interesting is: Discovering the paths of the hows, whys and wherefores from a wide variety of pioneer homeschooling moms. Their fascinating journey is exciting as well as instructive. You will be learning from the combined wisdom and genius of some of America's greatest moms that succeeded in homeschooling their children. You will glean wisdom from them as you discover the different ways of teaching their children and how they struck gold in their efforts.

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Publié par	No Greater Joy Ministries
Date de parution	27 janvier 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781616440695
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	12 Mo

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The Big Book of Homeschooling
Copyright © Michael and Debi Pearl
ISBN: 978-1-61644-068-8
January 2014
Visit www.NoGreaterJoy.org for information on this and other products produced by No Greater Joy Ministries
Requests for information should be addressed to:
No Greater Joy Ministries Inc.
1000 Pearl Road
Pleasantville, TN 37033
USA
All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Holy Bible.
Reprinting or online posting of our books, booklets, transcriptions of audio, video, and printed material is prohibited.
Written by Debi Pearl
Illustrations, Photography, and Interior layout design by Erin Harrison

Acknowledgements
A big THANK YOU to all the homeschooling moms who contributed stories or ideas to this volume. It is your creativity, passion and hard work, along with your love and sacrifice for your children that made it possible.
I also want to thank Mike, my husband, and all five of our children whose articles I pulled from http://nogreaterjoy.org Their insights fit so well our subject of homeschooling.
Thanks to Bobbie Sue Johnson, my energetic organizer and motivator, for the resource pages.
And last, thanks to my proofers— Mike, Jared, and Aaron. (You can blame them.)
Debi
The Vision
Math
Vocabulary
Phonics
Reading/Writing
Penmanship
Spelling
Science
History
Foreign Language
Home Economics
Biblical Studies
Music
Art
Drama
Shop Class
Physical Education
Health Class
Business
Learning Styles
Curriculum
The homeschooling movement started in the early 1970s with families who independently conceived of the idea. Thinking they were alone in their vision, they withheld their children from the public mills and started quietly teaching them at home. I know because I was there; I was one of those who had a dream. As far as I knew we were the only family that had ever dared teach our children at home. Then the thing we feared came upon us. The Department of Child Services showed up at our door saying we were breaking the law and were in danger of losing our children to “the system.” Whoa! Nothing seemed scarier than having our children taken from us and placed in a godless home. Life can really throw some curves. We made plans to flee the country, to seek freedom and liberty in some third-world jungle.
At that time, there were no support groups or legal services dedicated to helping radical parents who dared challenge truancy laws. Parents and friends were not sympathetic or supportive. It was scary knowing we were all alone in this quest of raising and educating our children the way God commanded.
One day, after leaving the judge’s chambers under threat of removing our children from our home, we walked down the hall to the office of a state senator, who was a friend, and told him of our predicament. He said we should call the newspapers and TV stations with the spin that the city of Memphis was trying to prevent us from giving our children a more advanced form of education. He told us to demand that our children be tested before they determined us to be unfit as teachers.
The media had never heard of homeschooling and saw it as an exciting story of the little man versus the big, insensitive establishment. We entertained news reporters and photographers from both print media and TV. Mike clearly and forcefully asserted the God-given right to raise our children free from the ungodly influences of public school and to give them a quality education. Suddenly, we were on TV and in multi-page spreads in the local newspapers, being called to testify before the authorities, and taking our children to be tested by hostile teachers. We became an overnight, infamous oddity. Our phone began to ring off the wall; the callers were other families who were also secretly homeschooling their children, thinking they were the only ones doing this “weird” thing.
All of these families shared a dream of taking charge of their own lives, hopes, and destinies. Homeschooling did not begin as a top-down master plan, urged upon the populace by someone with a political or social agenda. It began with God moving in the hearts of many parents, waking them to the need to put their families first and lead the charge away from the evil that our society was quickly moving toward. These bold parents aggressively called their children to follow them into victory. At the beginning, for most of these pioneers, it was a clash with the school system, courts, extended family (the hardest), and the church. Notable church leaders said we “should obey the law”—send our children to the public schools.
It was this very struggle that made the pioneer homeschooling families so successful both in education and in life. All truly successful families share a dream and each member pours their energies into making it a reality. After a decade, the battle for the right to homeschool was won. No one told the children that they were part of a bigger picture—changing the world to one where homeschooling was not only legal, it was also normal—and soon thousands of children would follow their lead. They, like their parents, picked up the mantle and wore it with distinction.
Here we are 40 years later. Everyone in the country knows the words “home schooling,” now one word—homeschooling. Over two million children are homeschooled, and the number increases every year. There is an industry of homeschooling materials, curriculum fairs with thousands in attendance, and homeschooled kids winning national spelling bees and science fairs. You can now contract an attorney who was homeschooled, or go to a doctor who did his K through 12 in his home with Mom as the teacher. Many scientists, musicians, and politicians attribute their success to mom and dad and the kitchen table. Best of all, homeschoolers have found each other and formed tens of thousands of beautiful marriages based on virtue and a vision of passing the torch to the next generation.

The early homeschooling pioneers were people of conviction. They chose a path from which there was no retreat, expecting good things from their efforts, and few were disappointed. But the movement has since strayed from its roots. It has been institutionalized and codified in a manner that leaves no room for vision and individual expression. Homeschoolers have adopted the techniques of corporate education, assuming the nature of a small, isolated, public classroom. The glowing reports of homeschool successes, the made-to-order curriculum, the support system, and the glamour of independent action have drawn in many who have no conviction and would never have endured the early days of homeschooling. In the early days, homeschooling was built on a vision that was not written down and for which there was no measure. For that reason we hear reports of some parents growing weary and throwing in the towel, putting their kids in public school or an equally destructive “Christian” school.
Are you on the verge of giving up? Are you frustrated and weary with the process? Are your children discontent? Before you give your children over to be educated by a system that is anti-God and anti-decency, consider the fact that not all homeschooling is created equal. It was a whole lot more fun in the early days—fun for the kids and the parents. This book is written to free you from the bondage of what has now become the tradition of homeschooling. I want to help you be a pioneer in your own home, just like we were when there was no one telling us how it should be done, when we were free to dream, to have a vision, to be creative, and to do our own thing.
I have recounted this history because one of the most necessary but largely missing elements of successfully homeschooling children and raising them to be strong, confident leaders is a vision. In this book I will teach you about vision and give you a number of examples of people with vision who have proven to be extremely successful, as seen in the fruit of their now-grown children and grandchildren.

A re you on the verge of giving up? Are you frustrated and weary with the process? Are your children discontent?
Observing this erosion of early homeschooling principles, early in 2002 I sent out an appeal to successful homeschooling families to share their “tried-and-proven” experiences and methods. I received hundreds of fascinating letters, many from the early pioneers whose children were by then already grown. We have personally known many families whose children became outstanding missionaries, scientists, doctors, lawyers, national security intelligence analysts, and honest laborers contributing to society.

But then, right in the middle of collating these fascinating letters which were loaded with so many wonderfully crazy ideas, my husband had a major life-threatening heart attack. Nothing else in this life seems very important when things like that happen. Yet, on the way to the hospital, while in the clutches of horrific pain, he told our oldest son, “Gabe, I am giving your mama one last duty as my wife. She is to write the book for ladies on how to have a good marriage. She has planned on doing it for years but has been distracted serving me; now is the time. It will be called ‘Created to Be His Help Meet.’” He barely survived the heart attack, but didn’t forget my errand (he is still alive and kicking higher than ever). Within days after we got home from the hospital, he set up an office for me in my parents’ empty vacation home and told me I was to be there at 6 AM each morning and could come home at 6 PM in the evening. He would bring my meals and hand them in through the door.
From the time I was 13 years old, I had kept notes from preachers, teachers, books, pamphlets, and even conversations. I had a huge box of musty old papers to resource and put into a file on the computer. Forced into the silence with just a computer (and no internet), I quickly began the task. Within three weeks the notes were entered and