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Archive for the ‘Homeschooling’ Category

Level I Astronomy and the Age of the Earth

The new Level I Astronomy Student Textbook is finished and ready to hit the shelves! The softcover edition will be available in a few days, and the hardcover edition will arrive in a few weeks. As of today, we at Gravitas Publications Inc. are taking pre-orders.

The question I’m often asked is how the age of the Earth will be addressed in this book. What people are really asking is whether the new Level I Astronomy Textbook takes an old Earth or a young Earth point of view–an important question I’d like to take the time to answer.

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From our mailbox

Recently we received the following email:

Your books are fairly easy to understand, but the experiments always end up failing in one way or another.

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The real reason I homeschooled my children

Recently, there was a comment on one of my blog posts asking for the real reason I homeschooled my children. I did post a reply, but I thought it was an interesting enough question to respond to in full with another blog post.

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“Mom, I’m Bored”

I remember when my daughter was three years old. We had just purchased a dishwasher, and she was fascinated by the large box. She wanted to climb inside, then outside, then inside again. We cut windows and a little door, and the cardboard playhouse sat in the kitchen for several months. She was never bored and seemed to find endless activities to keep herself occupied. But when she got a little older, I started to hear the familiar refrain, “Mom, I’m bored.”  Somehow, she lost her fascination with the infinite possibilities that she once knew how to create with a simple box.

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Dishes, Laundry, and Science… Oh my!

Homeschooling is not for the unadventurous. Once you’ve successfully won the war with the skeptical in-laws, parents, and neighbors, you are left alone to face your first morning of dishes, language arts, laundry, math, history, meals, errands, washing, ironing, grammar, grocery shopping, and of course, fascinating science experiments.

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