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I'm so grateful for the return of warm beautiful days. Over the past week or so, our home has been enveloped in fragrance from the many blooming shrubs and trees that are planted around it. There's Carolina Jasmine on the east end, its yellow, honey-scented blossoms climbing high up the side of the house; Calycanthus (Sweet Shrub) on the south side, its chocolate colored, melon scented blossoms tickling the bottom of the sunroom windows; Prunus Laurocerasus (Laurel?) on the north, its fluffy cream-colored blooms scenting the kitchen; and on the west, an unidentified wild shrub whose scent spreads 30 feet or more around it. A garden is a gift of beauty, and I'm thankful for every bit of it.
This issue of the newsletter talks a bit about how to raise boys (or girls), and lists a few new articles in the Life Management section on the website. I hope you enjoy it all, and will pass along the newsletter if it was a blessing to you.
Blessings,
Janice Campbell
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I wrote a three-part on how to raise boys. It's too long to post here, so I put it on the blog. It's intended to encourage your hearts whenever you look at those grubby, wiggly little boys that the Lord has given you. Mine are grown now, and I thought that these posts may give you a bit of perspective.
Part 1: Momma, Want to See a Snake?
Part 2: Hey Mom, Want to See My Jungle Gym?
Part 3: Hey Mom, Listen to this Great Performance
Part 4: Learning Styles: Should You Care? Don't miss the happy news at the end of this post!
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In the last issue, I invited readers to submit articles for the Life Management section of the Everyday Education website. Homeschooling is so much more than just academic lessons, and I felt that it would be helpful to address some of the real-life areas you want to train your children in.
Inez Holger, a garden writer, graciously shared An Herbal Primer-- a wonderful, illustrated article on how to create an herb garden using containers. You'll find it in the Garden Section, along with a page of Garden Quotes.
A couple of ladies wrote and asked if I'd please hurry and post something in the Weight Management section, so I did. You'll find three articles there so far, and I plan to add more. I'm not an authority on the subject, so anything I write is just from my own experience and reading, and is shared in a spirit of trying to offer things that have worked well for me.
- Think Like a Thin Person: Tell the Truth About Food and Eating
- Eat Like a Thin Person: Good Food Without Compromise
- Dress Like a Thin Person: Look Good, Feel Good
Invitation to Write for the Everyday Education Website
One of the things I want to do in 2010 is to expand the website to embrace more of the learning areas I believe to be important. For this purpose, we've created a new section on the Everyday Education website, and it's called "Life Management." It's designed to encompass all those things that round out a learning lifestyle, including:
* Home
* Garden
* Time
* Money
* Meals
* Weight
* Clothing
* Travel
* Arts and Crafts
* Caregiving
I have many articles I want to write for this section, but I know that there is a great deal of accumlated wisdom and knowlege among my readers. I'd like to offer you and your older students the opportunity to contribute articles, recipes, patterns, book reviews, or other helpful information to the Life Management section. Think of things that would be helpful to others and are in keeping with home and family values, and submit them, following the guidelines below. We'll publish as many items as possible.
Submission Guidelines
Articles can be of any length, but I ask that they be spell-checked and proofread before submission. Please submit in .rtf or plain text format, or even pasted into an e-mail message. Please do not submit anything in Microsoft Word. Format should be web-style, with a space between paragraphs, rather than an indention. As always, there should be only one space after each sentence.
If you would like to submit a photo with your article, recipe, pattern, book review, or other submission, please save it as a .jpeg or .gif and attach it to your e-mail submission. At the end of each submission, please include a brief bio of yourself with a link to your blog or website if you have one, and if you like, a small photo. As a sample, here's the bio I include at the end of my articles:
Janice Campbell homeschooled her four sons from preschool into college. She is the author of Transcripts Made Easy, Get a Jump Start on College, and Evaluate Writing the Easy Way, as well as the Excellence in Literature curriculum for grades 8-12. Be sure to visit her website, www.Everyday-Education.com, to get a free writing evaluation rubric and sign up for her free, twice-monthly e-zine.
I hope you've enjoyed this edition of the e-zine. Please feel free to share it in its entirety with others, and invite them to subscribe.
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