Jackson and Charlet Pemberton’s Neighborhood

Home school graduation

Is Obama's goal to subsidize parents so they can be in the workplace instead of raising their toddlers?

Washington Times' article says Obama's plan to require states to provide preschool is counter to a joint Harvard and Stanford study. The study suggests there is more social and psychological damage done to children in pre school and that there is no evidence of an educational or academic benefit.

There is research that supports that children benefit most from being at home with supportive parents in the 0 to 5 age ranges. Family. Imagine that.

Read Home Schooling: Zero To Five plan doesn't add up 

A North Carolina judge thinks he knows what's best for a home schooling family.

The case makes it clear that the children are ahead of their grade level. The judge only cites that the children will be taught things that will challenge what their mother has taught them. Since when do judges have the right to decide what it means to have a "well rounded" education? The judicial branch should be held accountable for this kind of over stepping.

"The judge, when contacted by WND, explained his goal in ordering the children to register and attend a public school was to make sure they have a "more well-rounded education."

Read: Judge orders homeschoolers into public classrooms

The fact that this charismatic baptist believes in the Book of Mormon is somewhat surprising. Surprising until you see the very long list of reasons this Baptist preacher lists for his belief in the truth of the Book of Mormon. http://www.centerplace.org/library/bofm/baptistversionofbofm.htm

I just read The World's Best Family Christmas Letter from The World's Best Family. It's a hilarious treatise. Basically, you get letters from people who never call, write or email you, but who want to let you "catch up" about their kids, church volunteer efforts, accolades and careers all rosied up with tidbits about how environmentally friendly and health-conscious they are.

Have you also noticed that the older the letter writers get the more it reads like a health journal? (Grandpa had [insert procedure] done to his liver. I had my [insert organ] removed.)

Us? We blog. That's how we brag about our kids, volunteer efforts, accolades, etc. =)

We did a re-take this evening.  We heard from some of you that you liked the colors here. 

Family Picture

What They Play is a guide for parents to know about the content of the video games their children are playing. A great resource if you have pre-teens that are getting into games with grown-up themes.

Ask Me Who I am

One hundred generations of blood in my veins
Noble souls passed in pain
Joy and agony of lifetimes brought me here
An unrepeatable miracle of God
With all my attributes –
eyes and face
hands and feet
My hair or lack thereof
With all my nurturing or depravity
Love and abuse
Praise and scorn
Pride and shame
Guilt and hope
I bring to the table
Who I am

A child of God born of a hundred generations
The blood runs through my veins
Heredity and inheritance of the blessings and curses
The gifts or poverty
And all my learning through the days of my childhood until
The day I’m leaving home

All my beliefs wrapped up in my mind
All the inheritance of my generations wrapped up in one being
With the divinity God gave me intrinsic to my soul

Divinity, the wicked traditions and the good
In one

23 August 2008

Neal A. Maxwell quotes Tolkien

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. [Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (New York: Ballantine Books, 1965), p. 190]

http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=7085