Tips for Frazzled (Homeschool) Moms

by Scott Stroud

Any home-schooling family with more than one child knows the challenge of keeping “Baby Kong” from tearing apart the house during school time. Now that we are teaching the oldest two of our four children, my wife, Mary, has had to develop an intricate strategy in order to have a productive day.

We would like to share with you some tips on how to deal with those unruly toddlers and make it through this difficult and often exhausting stage of home school life.

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Also at Home Educator.com...

Where Have All the Readers Gone?
by Dr. Renée Fuller

Something happened with that respected morning tradition; the reading of in-depth reports by The New York Times, The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal. Early each day many of us faithfully read the dispatches sent by journalists stationed all over the globe informing us about the latest world news. But then things began to change.

The New York Times let 500 of its news staff go. Similar cutbacks had previously taken place in major newsrooms throughout the country. Why? The presumed explanation: reduced circulation, ergo fewer readers, hence less advertising revenue. But why are there fewer readers of newspapers as well as of books when the number of college graduates has increased dramatically? And why are the book and newspaper readers that continue to exist heavily weighted toward middle age and older groups when it is the younger population that has the greater number of graduate school and college graduates? According to the statistics only a third of today’s newspaper subscribers are under the age of 40 to 45. This despite the increased number of advanced degrees in the younger age groups,

The usual explanation is that the younger generations are getting their news from the TV and through the Internet. That would seem like a logical assumption. But are these non-book and newspaper readers actually getting in-depth information coverage from the more recent popular media, or is there another reason for the reduced readership of in-depth reading material?

Click here to read the rest of the article. (Al Mohler also has a very good post at his blog on: We Are What We Read . . . and Eat)