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Selling Grades? Or, Learning to Do Right?
I was shocked this morning to read in the paper that a school in our area had a new fundraising plan, guaranteed to raise more money than selling candy bars. For a $20 donation,  students could get 10 extra points on any two tests of their choice. Yes, you read that right, the school was…
A Real Man and Teamwork
A couple of weeks ago, during the Homeschool Football League playoffs, something happened that reminded me of the value of team sports and team projects: During one of the hottest games for their team, a running play to the right was called. The team's star running back started off to the right sideline, but when…
Salute to a Real Man
We received word today that our friend, Chris Klicka, a long-time attorney for Home School Legal Defense Association, passed away this morning after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Chris adopted the homeschooling issue as a young attorney, before he was even married, and has traveled around the world promoting and defending home education across…
Homemaking Cottage’s Shiloah Baker Reviews our Book on Raising Boys
Writing duo and Christian parents of eight children, six of them being boys, Hal and Melanie Young know and live what they write about in the book Raising Real Men. Through their years of experience and success in bringing up these boys, ages currently ranging from 7 to adult, they have become experts in their…
New Apologia Worldview Curriculum Giveaway
Our friends at Apologia have a new Apologia Facebook page!  To celebrate, we're giving away one of their new books -- Who is God, produced with Summit Ministries, or Sally Clarkson's new edition of Seasons of A Mother's Heart -- to someone who comments on our own Raising Real Men Facebook page to tell us…
A Legacy of Thrift
Cleveland Murrell ... remembered how his father had worked as a janitor in the Canal Zone, all the while carefully saving his money. He returned home [to Barbados] with about $100 and used it to rent a bit of land. Rising prices during World War I earned him a solid profit on the sugarcane he…
Fearless or Foolish
We all know that boys in the teen years tend to be adventurous to the point of recklessness.  Our friend James McDonald posted a link on his Facebook status (note: he was horrified) about a church reaching out to teens through a program they call Fearless. What kind of reaching out are they doing? They…

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