BOYs, boys and yet another boy

So I have a 7 1/2 year old son Milton, 3 year old Quentin and yet another boy along the way. Needless to say I see many adventures in my future.  In my eyes God has given me a very important stewardship over these boys to raise men who will respect women, uphold the law and to be very strong in their faith. So how do you do that now???

I would say faith is number one. Raising youth with strong core values is seriously lacking these days. As I have mentioned before I am a high school coach and I see what the world is turning out as "MEN". A little scary sometimes I must say. Boys who have very little thought for a girls or his own virtue, chivalry is pretty much gone, mouths that make we want to carry around a bar of soap and so much more.

One great resource I have found is a book titled "Raising Real Men". I would say I agree with probably 95% of it and it is a very entertaining book. It is available on audio book (how I read it) and will leave you waiting to see what is in the next chapter.


Visit their site at
raisingrealmen.com

You can also follow them on Facebook and get great little tidbits now and then. Being the oldest girl in a house with three younger brothers I am ready for the challenge. Love those boys and make them real men!

So what is TJEd?

So you may be asking yourself...What is TJED?

I would venture to say that it is a much more free, child friendly way of learning at age appropriate times. Working as a coach in a high school I see the effects of the children going through the "conveyer belt" of education and I am not impressed. Now don;t get me wrong. I feel teachers are doing what they can but there are now many more preasures in education than before which dictates students classes curriculum and more. Students come in as happy freshman children and many of them leave high school looking tired, depressed and unsure of what to do with their lives. I do not want this future for my children so after a year of trying different homeschooling ideas I finnaly decided to trust the TJEd philosophy and have been enjoying it ever since.

Granted there are ups and downs but there are also ups and downs in the public school system. My ups and downs are under my control and are up to me and only me. No administration or teacher dictating what my child can or can not do. THomas Jefferson Education is an education center on the concept of creating leaders of the future who are confident and not affraid to walk their own walk. TJEd uses the following as the foundation blocks of a childs education.


7 Keys of Great Teaching
There are seven principles of successful education. When they are applied, learning occurs for any learning style or interests. When they are ignored or rejected, the quantity and quality of education decreases.

1. Classics, Not Textbooks
2. Mentors, Not Professors
3. Inspire, Not Require
4. Structure Time, Not Content
5. Simplicity, Not Complexity
6. Quality, Not Conformity
7. You, Not Them

If you are interested in learning more visit tjed.org
and take a look around. I will admit that I read over this with my husband almost two years ago and we thaught it was a little radical but after trying both a shool at home model (work sheet and text books) and unschooling this started to make sence.

Our TJEd Journal

Balloon Regatta Weekend

Ok, I had one blog and did some stuff on it but wome things have changed and I like it so I decided to do anew Blog. So I am going to use this to document our activities and keep track of all of the things I do with my kids and to keep track of what we do and different resources we use.

Feel free to try anything you think is fun or ask about anything we do. I hope you enjoy following our educational journey.

And no, we don't stay in our pajamas all day.