Choosing Curriculum

By Kim Baumgaertel             Ask any veteran home school parent about curriculum, and you are likely to get a variety of responses.  Each of us has our favorites, and our not-so-favorites, and our opinions about what has worked in the past and what we have learned...

Lesson Planning

By Kim Baumgaertel As I write this, it is mid-August.  My Mommy-teacher friends and I rendezvous almost every evening at the soccer field to sit in our lawn chairs in the late summer sunshine and chat.  How was your summer . . .did you travel . . . the blackberries...

Baha’i Faith

Below is an article written in 1990 for a home schooling newsletter. I posted the article on this website in February of 2000.  I’ve made some changes to the article (March 2001) based on email from adherents to Baha’i Faith. I have no problem correcting...

Fathers: Teach your family the Bible!

There are a lot of areas where I have had failures or weaknesses as a father. One area that the Lord has given me the grace and diligence to be consistent in is teaching my family the Bible. It has been one of the most important things I’ve done. I haven’t...