Category Archives: Family

Children’s Catechism Widget

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The Children’s Catechism, based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism, encapsulates basic Christian doctrine in a list of short questions and answers. The catechism is available for display on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html and ‘paste’ the selected code where you want the catechism to appear. Save… Read more »

Family Health Insurance

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Anyone considering leaving an established corporate job and starting a family business quickly encounters the daunting issue of health insurance costs.  Replacing the full coverage typically offered to employees of large corporations can easily cost over $1200 every month!  Obviously such high costs deter many potential entrepreneurs from even considering leaving their job and its fringe benefits. If your family… Read more »

Devotion Topic – Leisure

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For a helpful study of God’s perspective on leisure, Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure by Leland Ryken is recommended. I have not read the book yet but have read several other books by Dr. Ryken and found them all very good. I suspect the same here. And a great set of study notes is available… Read more »

Freedom Through Restoration of Property – Review

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Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton were the primary champions of Distributism, an economic system neither Capitalistic nor Communistic seeking widespread ownership of property as the chief means to household freedom. Chesterton’s chief work on the topic, Outline of Sanity, points out the troubles of industrialism and describes life under a Distributist scheme. Chesterton’s work does little to explain how such… Read more »

Economics 101: College vs. Apprenticeship

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An article in last weekend’s newspaper analyzed the payback of a college degree – Does It Pay to Go to College? by Scott Burns, reminded me of the cost-benefit analysis I’ve been intending to do. I have a college degree in electrical engineering and have benefitted from the boost in earning power. However, I’d like to take a close look… Read more »

What a Teenager Can Do

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What to expect from a teenagerTeenager. The word can bring fear to any parent of younger children as they imagine their kids entering so-called "adolescence". Expectations seem universally low for modern teenagers. What can you as a parent and teacher reasonably expect from a 14 year old? Some look around and see culture in shambles and just hope to keep… Read more »

The Homeschooling Path

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Every Good Path is a site for all matters of mature living in the Kingdom of God. Literally – “every” good path. But you’ll notice homeschooling takes up a lot of the site. Homeschooling is one aspect of learning. All of life requires learning. Even if we are not sitting at a desk completing a worksheet, we are learning. We… Read more »

Give Them Grace – Book Review

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I received my review copy of this book almost a year ago. I read it immediately but knew I would have to re-read and takes notes before I could write a review. A couple months passed and as I re-read the book, it was as if I had never read it. Give Them Grace is such an unusual parenting book…. Read more »

Dad, You’re the Key

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While this site is for everyone, the main focus is on fathers – how they can provide for their families in all areas. Food and shelter are the basics but so much more is required. Most important are a father's training, discipling, and leading by example. Again, the site does have a major homeschooling emphasis. This is in hopes of… Read more »

Home Educating with Confidence – Book Review

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Most of us have said at one time "Why doesn't someone write a book about _______ ?" I've said that about homeschooling and parenting. Having read dozens of books on parenting and homeschooling and experiencing fatherhood first hand for 14+ years, I felt there was still a need for a book that better combined the principles of parenting with practical… Read more »