The Youth Virtue Journal is a slim ring-bound workbook with a huge goal: to help teens choose virtues. Working with a mentor, teens will learn how to be attentive, content, forgiving, gentle, helpful, honest, obedient, perseverant and respectful. The booklet contains a form for parental input as well. Each of the nine chapters contains [...]
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Homeschool Review: EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey
As a homeschooling mother of teens, I was looking for a practical, insightful book about business. I wanted my teens to have at least some exposure to the business world and all it entails, and I wanted them to learn from a Christian. Well, I couldn’t have found a better book for all this than [...]
How to Raise Your High School Grades by Half a Point in One Semester
Teens need to think about thinking, studying, time management, and the future. There are all sorts of serious, sober, and expensive approaches to these topics. However, if your family has a sense of humor and likes outside-the-box ideas, Gary North’s free study course might work for you. How to Raise Your High School Grades by [...]
Foundations in Personal Finance Curriculum, Revisited
During school time Mr. 16 was sitting at the computer, chuckling. Having that much fun doing ‘schoolwork’ suggests to me that it’s not really schoolwork on the computer…. So I sternly asked, “What are you doing?” Sweetly he answered, “Dave Ramsey,” and continued chortling. After listening to a few more minutes of this laughter, I [...]
Review: Debt-Free U by Zac Bissonnette
Here are two alarming facts: Most university graduates have a huge student loan debt that negatively impacts their lives for many, many years. Most parents do not have enough money to give their children an expensive university education without seriously jeopardizing their own financial well-being. Few would argue, though, that young people should avoid college [...]
Review: Thriving at College by Alex Chediak
“I pray,” writes Alex Chediak in Thriving at College, “…that by God’s grace my life and this book will be used of God in some small way to help Christians thrive at college, maximize their God-given potential, embrace full-orbed adulthood, faithfully develop their talents, and take their places as salt and light in God’s [...]
Review: Personality Plus at Work
There are people I just don’t understand…and sometimes I get frustrated with their different ways of thinking and doing things. They also get frustrated with me. Yet we all mean well; we just can’t understand each other. At all. Throughout the years, I’ve observed that many people have the same problem. What’s more, being ‘nice’ [...]
Review: Foundations in Personal Finance Homeschool Curriculum
Looking ahead to my children’s futures, I don’t want to see them saddled with debt, living hand-to-mouth, fighting about money with their spouses, needing two incomes to survive, and unable to support their local church and other worthy causes. And I’m sure you don’t want that for your children either. Now, sometimes such financial [...]
A Homeschooler Discusses the Book, 168 Hours
How many hours are there in a week? 168. According to author Laura Vanderkam, this number is very important in a successful life. We should manage our lives in terms of 168-hour weeks, rather than individual days or hours, because anything important, including (and especially) exercise, will fit into those 168 hours. Although written for adults, 168 [...]
Review: When Life’s Not Working by Bob Merritt
Life is challenging for many of us; for some of us, it is downright tough. So why do some people thrive while others in similar circumstances spiral downward? To answer this question, Pastor Bob Merritt of the huge Eagle Brook Church wrote this book. When Life’s Not Working: 7 Simple Choices for a Better Tomorrow outlines [...]
