Mentoring Course

I had mentioned in the summer or September that I would like to do a mentoring course. However, due to technical glitches, it took me quite a while to get the book I wanted but I now have it and would like to again offer that opportunity to those interested. Several of you did respond, and I apologize that it took so long. It is 8 weeks and I think I would like to do it either every week or perhaps 2 weeks on and 1 week off. I am looking to do it on a Wednesday evening, hopefully starting February 1 and it would run from 7:30 to 9:30pm. I would like to keep that ending time especially, not because I don't like to talk with others, but maybe because of the opposite, :-)) and everyone, myself included, has a house to run the next day and a good amount of sleep is always good for that. It will also require a monetary commitment for the Parent Workbook of $31.

This program is for any new home educating family interested in more personal mentoring from an experienced veteran – that’s “experienced” not “expert”. This is a detailed mentoring program developed by Vicky Bentley in Virginia based on her years of experience as a home educator and support group member and leader with a group of 300+ member families.

This program may be for you IF:
- you are brand new this year with young children
- you are on the edge of a decision to home educate but want to know more about practical aspects
- you have been at this for a couple of years but still feel you require more of the basic information to go forward more comfortably
- you have older children recently removed from the public or private school system
- you are a veteran and would like to sit in on a session in order to become a mentor with Cornerstone
 
Topics to be covered are:
Beginning the Incredible Journey
Choosing Curriculum
Organizing Your Time
Home Education with Style
Getting Dinner on the Table (The Same Day You Homeschool)
Testing and Evaluation
Teaching Tips
Organizing Your Home
Lessons Learned

You will notice that these topics are not all strictly home educating how-tos but deal with the general flow of your household. I believe that choosing to home educate your children is not about making an education choice. It is truly a lifestyle choice. How you organize (or don't organize) your home and household tasks can and do directly affect your "school" time. Please let me know if you are interested.

 

Blessings. Cynthia

January 23rd meeting cancelled.

Due to the facilities not being available on January 23rd, I will be cancelling the meeting for that date.

The one after will be on February 27, and will be on co-ops, as there has been some request for that. So if you have any questions or things you would like dealt with in that meeting, then feel free to let me know and I will try and address them. The info will not just be from me, but also from other sources that I have gleaned from.

I hope to see a lot of you there.

Blessings. Cynthia

Wishing you a blessed new year.

I have no posts since September, so I thought I really should post something. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas season, as we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Saviour, who came down from heaven to be incarnate man, so He could then suffer and die on the cross for all of our sins. I wish you the Lord's blessing on your upcoming year as you seek to raise your children in the ways of the Lord, that you and they might be lights reflecting God power and glory to the world around. In line of that thought, take some time to read 1 Kings 10:1-9, and note how Solomon shone that glory of the Lord in his kingdom to the world around. He didn't run around to the nations and giving them the gospel (not that that is wrong), but rather lived it in word and deed making a great impact on the nation of Israel and the world around. Word of this unique nation, which served the living God (not dumb images) and followed a unique set of laws, that allowed the worship of only one God which resulted in wisdom and justice and righteousness. The Queen of Sheba came to seek out this king as the light of the Lord shone forth from his kingdom. Sometimes we busy ourselves with this that and the other thing, when we really should pay more attention to how we are actually living. May we too shine to the world around that they might see something different and desirable about our lives and how we live, speak and act, how we train our children up, that they too might come and ask us, just as the queen of Sheba came to Solomon. We can only do this if we rely totalling on our God.
Blessings to you all.