Here's a recent essay on Gulliver's Travels, by my daughter. She 'completed' high school earlier this year yet learning continues apace on the Road to 21. This essay reflects upon one of the books on that 'Road'.

Islands peopled by miniscule, vindictive beings. Giants whose pipes are big enough for a person to squeeze inside. Countries suspended in the air. Horses that are almost more rational than humans. Troubled seas and world-renown for the discoverer of such things. "Gulliver's Travels", the famous fictional narrative by Jonathan Swift, contains the stuff of fairy tales. Yet it's almost a fairy tale gone wrong, or, rather gone mundane, which might be worse...

Here's a recent essay from my daughter. She 'completed' high school earlier this year yet learning continues apace on the Road to 21. This essay reflects upon Arthur Leff's address "Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law".

It’s an age-old issue—the question of fairness. Everyone scolds a cheater and abhors a traitor. And all of us must admit to using the phrase, “that’s not fair”, or one of its equivalents, almost daily, if not more often. The issue of fairness pervades our lifestyle, regardless of culture, but perhaps its commonplace nature has diminished the attention it should be receiving...

Feb 28 noon update - CONTEST WINNER! Congratulations to Leslie, winner of the free pass. We had 5 entries via contact/email and 2 via comments. If you didn't win, Vision Forum is offering $25 off all orders over $75, so you can get all 20 weeks for $60 if you order before midnight Feb. 28. Use SAVE25 as the coupon code with your order.

Our friends at Vision Forum just announced a new 20 week series Family Strategies: Practical Issues for Building Healthy Families. A new message will be released each week. You can listen online or download to your smartphone, iPod, or MP3 player.

This series covers many of the topics addressed here at Every Good Path and we are very glad Vision Forum invited us to give away a free pass for the entire series to one of our readers!

If you don't win the giveaway, you can still qualify for discount pricing if you sign up before March 1.

Here are the topics Vision Forum's Doug Phillips and his wife, Beall, will cover each week:

1. How to Organize Your Home to Promote Family Unity
2. How to Cultivate a Love of Reading with Your Children
3. How to Make Mealtime Meaningful
4. How to Prepare for a Year of Home Education
5. How to Take Children Safely Through an Airport
6. How to Involve the Whole Family in Family Worship
7. How to Address the Plague of “Jive Talk” in Your Home
8. How to Encourage Masculinity in Sons
9. How to Encourage Femininity in Daughters
10. How to Handle a Social Worker Visit
11. How to Wage War on Sibling Rivalry
12. How to Use Household Decorations to Teach Character
13. How to Talk to Your Children about Miscarriage
14. How to Involve the Whole Family in Hospitality
15. How to Build an Entrepreneurial Spirit in Your Children
16. How to Watch a Movie As a Family
17. How to Cultivate a Love of Meaningful Poetry with Your Children, and Why Doing So Is Important
18. How to Prepare Your Children to Listen to a Symphony
19. How to Take a Road Trip with Your Family
20. How to Select the Best Locations for Family Vacations

See more details on Family Strategies: Practical Issues for Building Healthy Families including samples and a video invitation from the Phillips.

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We hope Family Strategies is a great help to you!

In this 35 minute lecture, Peter Leithart chronicles how enlightenment principles led to the current quagmire of the American education system. He carefully reasons to the conclusion that all true education is unavoidably religious discipleship.

This site is for all matters of life in the Kingdom of God.  Literally - "every" good path.  So why does homeschooling keep coming up? [More]

Links to sites and resources to help you begin considering if homeschooling is right for your family.

How to approach home educating your middle school child.  Methods, general scheduling, subjects, and resources.  Start here then look at the plans for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade for details.

Discussion of how to educate a 6th grader. Issues include the transition from a child's mind to a young adult, the learning environment, timeframes, choosing resources, and changing curriculum midstream. Includes lists of resources required, a general strategy for each subject, and a two months sample of the detailed daily lesson plan and schedule that we implemented with our kids.

Discussion of how to educate a 7th grader. Issues include the ongoing transition from a child's mind to a young adult's, the learning environment, timeframes, choosing resources. Includes lists of resources required, a general strategy for each subject, and a two months sample of the detailed daily lesson plan and schedule that we implemented with our kids...

Daily lesson plans for late middle school/early high school.