Issues Of Practical Life Skills Need Serious Attention. Can I Do This?

My comment: Others have tried raising kids and failed, but they took notes.  We can learn from them; we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.  Not all advice will be good advice or well received, but as one Pastor told me "eat the fruit and spit out the seeds." And I still remember the shock I had when I heard one of my teachers exclaim, "There are no good books!"  But then he continued, "There are just good chapters."

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

I wrote this book because I needed it for my own family. We have chosen to order the super-sized plate of parenting. That is, we have them, we train them, we homeschool them, we mentor them. A few years into this process, we observed that our academic program was going great, but issues of character development, life vision, and practical life skills needed serious attention. How, I asked, were we to accomplish that?

               Even with four great kids and a lifestyle I dearly love, I had begun to feel that the super-sized plate was a little excessive. I had too much work to do. Teaching the children was a full-time job in itself, and added to that was the task of running a home, our involvement in church, and our support of our children’s other interests. I found myself resenting the extra work while still feeling growing concerns about the big gaps in my children’s education. My eight year old could read almost any book in the library, but she didn’t know how to dry dishes. And I saw so many other areas in which she would need instruction before becoming an adult. My children needed practical life education in order to know how to take care of themselves and their loved ones in the real world.

               How overwhelming! The last thing I needed was another project or program to do with the kids. How could we fit another commitment into our already overcommitted lives?

Then it became clear to me that the solution was…


Life Skills For Kids: Equipping Your Child For The Real World

by Christine M. Field


I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. ~ 3 John 4

 

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