teaching boys
Hello to all our first-time guests at Raising Real Men, our blog dedicated to training up sons who stand strong to fulfill God's calling in their lives! We had a lot of submissions for this week's Carnival, and due to a family issue at the last moment, we are a few hours late getting the…
A bumper sticker says, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." Most people agree on the value of education. The Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank in Raleigh, N.C., just completed a study of the cost. How much does it take to provide a K-12 education? How about $122,478 ? That's median per-pupil expense for thirteen years in the…
UPDATE: Congratulations to Mandy Gillespie who won volumes 1 and 2 of our new Hero Tales series and apheartsong who won a free ticket to the Schoolhouse Expo! Psychologists Joseph and Claudia Allen say that low expectations have undermined the transition from childhood to adulthood, and twenty-somethings are still trying to figure out what their…
Congratulations to Sonbeams on today's release of their new preschool curriculum! Don't miss today's great sale... A few months we reviewed Sonbeam's ABC Bible Memory Verse Songs and were impressed with them, so when Mrs. Candace of Sonbeams asked us if we'd like to review their new preschool curriculum, we were delighted. The first thing…
There are only a select subset of books that I reread. Most are barely worth the time to finish them, but there are a few that bear rereading again and again. Dorothy Sayers is like that. Although she writes mysteries, her prose is so enjoyable that you don't even care that you know "who dunnit."…
The King's School is the oldest independent private academy in Australia. The headmaster of the all-male, K-12 boarding school, Dr. Tim Hawkes, presented a paper at the International Boys' School Coalition conference in Toronto, Canada, a few years ago, starting his presentation with this observation: When the philosopher, Aristippus of Cyrene, was asked some 400…
God told the prophet Jeremiah, "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way [is], And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls." (Jeremiah 6:16) That's spiritual advice, but it's wisdom to consider in everyday things, too. Here's a story from Britain that says…
Several years ago, it occurred to us that maybe the teenaged years didn't have to be full of anger, rebellion, and sullenness. Just because we went through it or saw it in our friends growing up, does that mean it has to be that way? Is that what you see in the Bible? Through history?…
We're celebrating the official release of Raising Real Men with freebies and contests! I grew up in an entrepreneurial family and I have to confess that when we were first married, I thought it was great that Hal went to work and then came home and was done. Over the years, though, life as an…
One thing we hear all the time is how hard it is to get boys to "sit down and do schoolwork" and when I look back at the most effective learning we've done, it's been when it was hands-on, hearts-on education. Such as when we toured Civil War sites in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on…