Category: Principles of True Education

Seashore Adventures Science Camp – For Homeschoolers In/Near California

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Seashore Home School Camp at Albion Marine Station in Northern California is coming up June 5-10, 2016. They do have a few cabins left. This could be a once in a lifetime experience for some kids, as they don’t offer it very often. We’ll be tide-pooling in the mornings and there are classes are for all ages from 3-18.

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“Announcing the 55th Home School Science Camp and Outdoor Education Week.  Come join us at the Albion Field Station for an unforgettable experience exploring God’s world at the edge of the sea . Come away from the library, from inside the house, and learn more about God’s Creation while you’re right out in it!  Meet some other home schoolers who intend to have some serious fun, tidepooling and learning about the creatures that live between the tides.  Schedule includes worship, early morning tidepooling, class instruction, and outdoor nature study activities. Camp Orchestra: If you play an orchestra instrument, we are going to have a camp ORCHESTRA for this camp to play for the song services and to do a special number for the program. Be sure to sign up for this if you want to participate so you can get the music ahead of time to practice AND so we can plan on you.”

The link to the application http://www.riverlight.org/creationadventures/Seashore_Application_2016.pdf.

Learning to Work

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Are we teaching our children to work?   Some of the best guidance I was given as a young mother was to teach my children the value ofchores practical labor.  They were not to be passive members of our household, but active participants in the running  of the home.   Training a child to work is about more than getting the daily chore list completed.  Useful labor is a vehicle for character development.   If a child is not taught to be diligent in taking out the trash, or making a bed,  the transfer of that trait into the academic arena will be the more difficult.   Work is also an important safeguard for our children.  What is the saying about idle hands?

Ellen G. White shares some important thoughts about work:

The physical as well as the religious training practiced in the schools of the Hebrews may be profitably studied. The worth of such training is not appreciated. There is an intimate relation between the mind and the body, and in order to reach a high standard of moral and intellectual attainment the laws that control our physical being must be heeded. To secure a strong, well-balanced character, both the mental and the physical powers must be exercised and developed. What study can be more important for the young than that which treats of this wonderful organism that God has committed to us, and of the laws by which it may be preserved in health?

And now, as in the days of Israel, every youth should be instructed in the duties of practical life. Each should acquire a knowledge of some branch of manual labor by which, if need be, he may obtain a livelihood. This is essential, not only as a safeguard against the vicissitudes of life, but from its bearing upon physical, mental, and moral development. Even if it were certain that one would never need to resort to manual labor for his support, still he should be taught to work. Without physical exercise, no one can have a sound constitution and vigorous health; and the discipline of well-regulated labor is no less essential to the securing of a strong and active mind and a noble character.

Every student should devote a portion of each day to active labor. Thus habits of industry would be formed and a spirit of self-reliance encouraged, while the youth would be shielded from many evil and degrading practices that are so often the result of idleness. And this is all in keeping with the primary object of education, for in encouraging activity, diligence, and purity we are coming into harmony with the Creator.

Patriarchs and Prophets, 601

Motivation Monday

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“The influence exerted in the home must be Christlike. This is the most effective ministration in the character-building of the child. The words spoken are to be pleasant. No boisterous, arbitrary, masterful spirit is to be allowed to come into the family. Every member is to be taught that he is to prepare to be a member of the royal family.”

Pacific Union Recorder – August 18, 1910

Audio Link: The ABCs of Agriculture in Childhood Education

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Food for thought for Seventh-day Adventist parents from Joshua White of A Thinking Generation Ministries.  This talk is entitled,  Back to School: The ABCs of Agriculture in Childhood Education.   The link is courtesy of Audioverse.
https://www.audioverse.org/english/embed/media/6981

Monday Bible Promise

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Close Up Leaf & Water Drops

 

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
– Isaiah 44:3

How Stands Our Record in 2014?

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“Fathers and mothers, how stands your record? Have you been faithful to your trust? As you have seen your children inclined to follow a course that you knew would result in impurity of thought and word and act, have you, first asking God for help, tried to show them their danger? Have you pointed out to them the peril of following a path of their own choosing? Mothers, have you neglected your God-given work,—the greatest work ever committed to mortals? Have you refused to bear your God-given responsibilities? In the time of trouble just before us, when the judgments of God fall upon the impure and unholy, will your children curse you because of your indulgence?

Your home is a little world of itself. In it, order, prompt obedience, submission, should prevail. It is a duty that parents owe their children to make wise rules for the guidance of the household, and then to see that these rules are obeyed.family-on-beach

The home is a training school. The mother is the teacher. She is to choose for her children. She is to mold and fashion their characters. She is to teach them to bring God into their lives. She should be so closely connected with God that through her he can work out his will.

Mothers, have you neglected your work? Then I beseech you to take it up now in the fear of God. Be converted. Before the year closes, confess your neglect to your wayward children, and ask them to help you to begin the new year aright, and during its hours, to live for God.

Parents, you are the ones who must decide whether your children shall choose the service of God or the service of mammon, eternal life or eternal death. Watch them carefully and tenderly. Give them wise instructions, line upon line, precept upon precept. Study their dispositions, that you may know what traits of character to repress and what traits to encourage. Teach them to guard constantly against selfishness, fraud, cruelty, dishonesty, and to cherish all that goes to make human beings Christlike. Remember that what your children learn in the home, they will carry with them when they go out into the world, and that it will affect all their future experience.

If you have neglected your work, repent before it is too late, and strive to atone for your neglect. Think of the time you have lost, and be doubly earnest in your efforts to undo the wrong you have done. The result of your neglect you may see in the wayward course of your children, and in their lack of power to resist the corrupting influence of the age. And very plainly you will see it when they go forth to fight the battle of life for themselves. I entreat you to arouse before it is too late, and take up your work, lest you be found unfaithful. To the parent who neglects his life-work, God cannot say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Review & Herald- December 23, 1902

Free Year-Long Bible Reading & Devotional Reading Resources

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General Conference Youth Ministries Department – Morning Watch from 100 years ago! Here is a reprint of the December 1914 Morning Watch. The 1915 Morning Watch will be added a month at a time.

A free .pdf download of a youth devotional book from the General Conference Youth Min. Dept.  Identity devotional book.

Looking for a Bible Reading Plan for younger children? Here’s the Adventist Junior Youth Bible Year Plan.   It is a four -year plan that divides the Bible readings into themes by chapters, such as Prophecy, Praises and Peace.

Set the goal of reading through the Bible in 2014
Read through the Bible in 2015

Join others around the world and listen online to a daily reading of the Bible and read an accompanying devotional as part of the General Conference’s Revived By His Word program.  Click on the Today’s Reading icon.

An interesting Bible Study Plan from Sabbath School Net. Generally an OT and NT chaper assigned per day, with a Psalms every tenth day. Bible Reading Plan

Printable Day By Day with Jesus Bible Reading Guide from the General Conference Children’s Ministry Department – http://www.gcchildmin.org/pdf/2012biblereadingguide.pdf