Train Up A Child

Train Up A Child
by Steve Klein

Vines grow the way they are trained. Children do too. Like the nurseryman who trains vines to grow on a trellis according to his design, parents are to “train up a child in the way he should go” (Prov. 20:6). Fathers are to bring up their children “in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). Vines and children trained improperly when they are young and tender, cannot easily be retrained after they have been stiffened with age. Godly parents will make a sincere and serious-minded effort to properly train their children by word and by example. Here are some practical tips for parents who are interested in having their children grow the way God wants them to grow in three important areas — worship, morality and Bible knowledge.

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http://www.aubeacon.com/Articles2017/Article_TrainUpAChild.html

Birchardville School, Birchardville, PA

Birchardville School

Schoolhouse Road

Birchardville, PA 18801

Built in 1861, at a cost of $315, this one room school was one of nine one room schools in the Township of Forest Lake, Pennsylvania. Located in Northern Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna County, on a side street off of Route 267, a half mile south of Birchardville, and five and a half miles north of Lawtown, the school has now been turned into a museum. The museum is managed by the Birchardville School Historical and Educational Association.

Creation vs. Evolution

Creation vs. Evolution
by Dave Pratte

Note: We accept the Bible, even when it contradicts unproved “scientific” hypotheses, because of the evidence that the Bible is true.   These proofs include eyewitness testimony of miracles, fulfilled prophecy, and Jesus’ resurrection. The following points prove that evolution can never be harmonized with the Bible.

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Chilo School, Chilo, OH

Chilo School

302 Washington St.

Chilo, OH 45112

Chilo is a village in Clermont County, Ohio, along the Ohio River.  The village was platted in 1816; an early variant name was Mechanicsburgh.   A post office called Mechanicsburg was established in 1819, and the name was changed to Chilo in 1823.  By the 1830s, Chilo had about twenty houses and two stores.  The old one room school on Washington Street is now used by the Chilo Post Office.

Sister, Show Mercy

Sister, Show Mercy

From Pyromaniacs Blog, April 17, 2012

     [Jean Hall wrote:  Thought this was a great article and wanted to share.  This topic of conversation arises frequently at our house, being a houseful of teenagers.  I encourage parents of young children to address the topic early.  It’s so much easier to instill principles BEFORE they are needed, before the argument is over a particular outfit for a particular evening.  It still needs to be constantly monitored with older kids, but reminding them of what they know is easier than trying to change habits/perceptions/attitudes that have already dug in.]

Preface: “What are you? Nuts?!” Just thought I’d lead with the question you’ll be wondering in a few minutes. I am about to stick my finger in the fan, about up to my elbow, and I know it. But I really think someone needs to say this — and why not me? I have less to lose than many who’ve thought the same thing, but daren’t say it.

So here we go.

What will change, and what won’t. Spring’s sprung, and summer looms. Mercury rises, fashions change. But one thing that won’t change, unless I’m happily mistaken: some good Christian sisters will not dress as helpfully as they could.

I chose that word with care: “helpfully.” I am not talking about sin, shame, indecency, wantonness, or the like. Perhaps I could, with some justification. But that’s for another time — and probably another writer. At this point, I just want to talk about being helpful.

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http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2012/04/sister-show-mercy-repost-4.html

Schoolhouse, West Newfield, ME

Schoolhouse

West Newfield, ME

Newfield is a town in York County, Maine.  It was incorporated as Newfield on February 25, 1794, and is part of the Portland metropolitan statistical area. Newfield is home to a museum called Willowbrook Museum Village. This picture of the town hall and schoolhouse in West Newfield, Maine, circa 1915, was reproduced from an original postcard published by the Eastern Illustrating Company, Belfast, Maine.

7/2018 Home School Book Review news

Home School Book Review Blog (https://homeschoolbookreviewblog.wordpress.com/ ) is the place to go for over 3,500 book reviews, primarily of children’s and youth literature both old and new, from a Biblical worldview.

Books reviewed in June of 2018 include:

June 23, 2018–Dragon’s Gap: Love’s Catalyst (Lars and Claire’s Story), A Novella

June 22, 2018–A Journey to Matecumbe

June 19, 2018–Spurt: A Balls and All Story

June 18, 2018–Sod Schoolhouse

June 13, 2018–Sod House Adventure or The Children Who Stayed Alone

June 12, 2018–Seedfolks

June 8, 2018–My Brother Who Taught Me to Fly

June 7, 2018–The Egg and I

June 6, 2018–The Boy and His Curse: Book 1, Artists and Earthian

The winner of our Book of the Month Award for June, 2018:

Sod House Adventure or The Children Who Stayed Alone, by Bonnie Bess Worline

Books that we are currently reading and will review in the near future are:

Letters to Mark: On God’s Relation to Human Suffering, by James Davenport Bryden

The Highest Hit, by Nancy Willard

Honk the Moose, by Phil Stong

The Moffats, by Eleanor Estes

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Branch Hill School, Milford, OH

Branch Hill School

6208 Branch Hill-Guinea Pike

Milford, OH 45150

Branch Hill is an unincorporated community in Clermont County, in the state of Ohio.  It was laid out in 1873 by Col. John H. Branch, and named for him.  The Branch Hill School, Miami Township No. 5 located on Branch Hill Guinea Pike and Cook Rd., was built in 1880 and closed in the early 1900s.  It is now used by the First Church of Jesus Christ of Loveland.

Homeschoolers Are Like Small Towns

Homeschoolers Are Like Small Towns
By Michael Leppert

[The author writes: I am pleased to offer you an article I wrote awhile back, “Homeschoolers Are Like Small Towns.” I firmly believe this statement and hope that the financial events of the last four years will aid in the revival of the sense of individuality and uniqueness that our country offers and so many of us appreciate.]

Go to any small town in America and you may see a proliferation of locally-owned businesses. “Mom and pop” restaurants, drycleaners, gas stations, stationers . . . corporate America hasn’t completely wreaked its damage on Main Street, yet. Sole proprietor businesses are just like the people who own them – they have a unique, individual quality that often reflects the owner’s personality. In a sole-prop restaurant, when you sit down at a table for a meal, the person waiting on you might the boss – or is doing the cooking. In some rural areas of the country, such businesses may seem quirky or eccentric, but to many of us, that is the very quality that makes such a business endearing and worthy of patronage.

On the other hand, corporate entities tend to have a slick, fabricated, designed look and feel. Plus, the “owners” are usually very far removed from you. Some corporations pride themselves on having a consistent floor plan and décor in every single location. This often lowers costs, and seems helpful to one who travels a great deal. Think of any national wholesale department store or restaurant chain, and you know how it is: You could be dropped blindfolded in the middle of any American city, walk into a local chain location and go right to the appropriate area of the store where a particular household, automotive, clothing item or menu selection can be found.

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http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/homeschool/articles/vol6iss5/vol6iss5_Editorial.html

Old Ledge School, South Freeport, ME

Old Ledge School

South Freeport, ME

Freeport is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, part of the Portland metropolitan statistical area.  The town was once a part of North Yarmouth called Harraseeket, after the Harraseeket River. First settled about 1700, it was set off and incorporated on February 14, 1789, as Freeport. It is probably named “from the openness of its harbor” (free from ice).  Freeport developed as four villages—Mast Landing, Porter’s Landing, South Freeport and Freeport Corner—all of which are now part of the Harraseeket Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The photograph of “The Old Ledge Schoolhouse of the ’50s, South Freeport, Maine,” circa 1905, was reproduced from an original postcard published by F. E. Merrill, Freeport, Maine.