Meg Logan’s Blog

(This is an email touching on toilet training, reading and discipline. I trained my son to use the potty by the time he was 15 months old. I started when he was 12 months and had just started walking.)
Here is what I did, taken from an email written to a friend:

You asked two very interesting questions:
1. How did you complete training by 15 months?
2. How did you teach your son to read?

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Here at the Logan residence, the homeschool year is beginning on October 9th. Why October 9th? Well, as it happens, I was given a free Bob Jones curriculum to use last March. And as it turned out the first part of it was not related to seasonal things, but the second semester was! So, I put school on hold from July to October, and plan on resuming on Columbus day. I will begin with helping my son create a ship out of blocks, and we will be talking about Christopher Columbus, and his sailing in 1492. We will talk a bit about boats, and what life was like in 1492.

We will also be delving more deeply and consistently into the math curriculum that I have embarked on. It is for five year olds, but so far he seems to find it both interesting and easy. I am excited to continue with it. This next week we will be learning about more than and less than. We will be doing all kinds of fun things to help us understand value. We will be finger counting. Counting circles, and comparing sizes. We will get out the colored chalk and write on the black board (Peter just loves this!)
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I thought I would write an arguement for homeschooling. Currently I do homeschool my three year old. We have completed pre-school and are working on Kindergarten. He is unusually blessed in mental ability, and he also sits still for long time periods, which makes him a uniquely easy student. He really likes doing workbooks, and writing (as well as he can). He loves to read too. The hardest part about teaching my son, is keeping up with what he is now able to learn and not holding him back, by refusing to answer his multitude of questions, or not providing him with enough stimulations and various topics.

Regarding Homeschool… This is why I think people ought to homeschool, especially Christian parents.

1. It is the Parents Responsibility to raise up their children: and 2. Christian’s kids are to learn Christian ideals, and a Christian worldview, that they might love and serve the Lord all the days of their lives. This is extremely important. When you decide to school your child, publically especially (but even in a private Christian school), you are no longer in control of what your child learns, when s/he learns it, or how it is explained. This is in direct conflict with the Deuteronomy account regarding who is responsible for teaching children, when they are to teach them, and what they are to teach! Here are the scriptures I am referring to:

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deuteronomy 6:7-9 (emphasis mine)

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:19-21 (emphasis mine again of course!)

What we are to teach is the fear of the Lord, and His commandments (not just the Ten). (There are myriad places to reference this… just before the verses mentioned above you will find it, and scattered throughout the whole Bible, primarily in Proverbs.

If that is not reason enough, there are other secular reasons.
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