February's Title Swap

Girls on the Edge - Dr. Sax
Uncommon Genius - Denise Shekerjian
The Profound Effects of Music on Life - Auido CD, Andrew Pudewa
The Adverntures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat - Theoni Pappas
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What is Self - Government?

It is being able to determine the cause and effect of any given situation, and possessing the knowledge of your own behaviors so that you can control them.

If you teach a child how to govern his own behaviors, you will teach him how to change his heart.  This change of heart is more important that any behavior change.

December's Title Swap

Parenting with Love and Logic - Fosler Cline and Jim Fay
Educating For Human Greatness - Lynn Stoddard
Hold On to Your Kids (Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers) - Neufeld and Mate
Boys Adrift - Dr. Sax
Freedom Shift - Oliver DeMille

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Carol. I am grateful for all of my book group friends!

What is Money???

So "on the eighth day" humans created money as an IOU for goods or services received.  Money gets its value at the moment of trade.  Money is simply a token, an essentially valueless marker for something that  theoretically, at one time, had value to someone.

But there are still plenty of people on the earth who never touch the stuff.  And despite out arrogance about the almighty dollar it isn't honored everywhere in the world.  Money is a "store of value" and a "means of exchange" only within the confines of a cultural agreement.

November's Title Swap

Financial Peace - Dave Ramsey
The Sidetracked Sisters' Happiness File - Pam Young and Peggy Jones
In Quest of the Abundant Life - Thomas S. Monson
Hold On to Your Kids - Gordon Neudeld
The Slave Dancer - Paula Fox
The Headgate (article) by Brian and Keri Tibbets (I have a copy if you would like me to send it to you.)
Boys Adrift - Dr. Sax
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization by Dr. Andrew Pudewa

October's Title Swap

Hold on to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers - Gordon Neufeld
The Last Child in the Wood - Richard Louv
The Color Code - Taylor Hartman
Myer-Briggs -- Personality Test
Enneagram  -- Personality Test
The ABC Herbal - Steven Horne
Raising Up a Family to the Lord - Gene R. Cook

The Green-Eyed Monster!

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:
It is the green-eyed monster which doth
Mock the meat it feeds on."

A True Gentleman

"....no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner.  No varnish can hide he grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

The Task of the Modern Educator

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.  The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate with just sentiments.  By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes.  For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."