Dr. Walter E. Williams has the knack of distilling an important issue down to its essence, and this article of his is a great example of that.
He’s discussing school choice, and why government should not be involved in the allocation of funds to education. He makes it so easy to understand; can you tell I’m a big fan of his work?
It’s been a chilly spring, and my seedlings aren’t doing that well. They sure don’t look happy. But Home Depot came to the rescue with their particularly lovely selection of $5 flower baskets. There are now six of them in my garden; what a difference it makes to have some color out there!
Today is the official publication date of the third edition of Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers!
I originally wrote this curriculum for my eldest daughter and used it for her and her brother when they were doing homeschool high school. It was first published in 2003. We added to it and used that second edition (2006) for our youngest daughter when she was a homeschooled teen.
Homeschooling parents continued to buy the curriculum all these years, but over time I started thinking about how it needed to be updated. Two years ago, I began that work, but a serious illness with hospitalization interrupted my efforts. Just about the time I began regaining my strength, my husband was hospitalized with the same illness. So we had some hurdles, but thank God we’re doing better and we were able to finish the third edition of Life Prep just in time for the June 1 publication date.
It’s a lot bigger now! There are six new projects:
Other features of this updated and expanded edition include:
You can buy Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers, Third Edition direct from Cardamom Publishers; it’s also available at Rainbow Resource Center, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, Barnes & Noble…anywhere books are sold!
Across the pond, a psychologist is claiming that the busy lives of two-career families is putting too much strain on teenage girls, leaving them vulnerable to mental illness. He suggests that parents put more time in with their daughters and limit their access to social media and technology.
I agree with him, but I do wonder why he left out boys. They need their parents as much as their sisters do, don’t they?
Here’s yet another story about the current crop of young people and their inability to live on their own. The lousy economy is surely a factor, but you have to wonder how much helicopter parenting has contributed to this problem. So many modern parents are unwilling to help their teens achieve independence by transferring responsibilities to them as they approach 18 (which used to be the age of independence).
We didn’t raise our kids that way. Once they finished homeschooling, they could either go to college or go to work, but if they chose work, they also had to start paying rent. We didn’t charge that much, though I do recall one of them accusing us of wanting to get rich off of them, LOL. But today they’re all self-supporting, independent, hard-working adults despite being part of the millennial generation.
I can’t help but worry that many of the young folks featured in the article will never successfully make it on their own. I sure hope I’m wrong.