To Train Up A Child

Mark and Erin Harrison along with their 5 children have managed to produce yet another delightful DVD in their HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS series.

ABOUT THE HARRISONS:
Mark and Erin moved to the country and renovated an old farm house several years ago. They gradually gleaned the skills they needed to make a go of it from their Amish neighbors. Everything was a learning experience from sewing and canning to animal husbandry and butchering. These skills were once passed down within families to younger generations. Now, Erin and Mark have invited the viewer into their home to learn and laugh with them through the many adventures of homesteading.

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HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS VOLUME 3 covers the lost art of meat canning. Get an inside view of their community as Amish neighbors join in to can pork and beef. Learn to process meat and can it in many very handy ways. Learn the art of canning carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes. Plus, Erin shows you how to make your own noodles, and a sprouted grain, no yeast, no sugar bread. As always, the children have fun helping mom in the kitchen.

This product comes with a full color 20 page companion guidebook that contains detailed instructions, information, and recipes used in this DVD.

Order your copy by following this link to the NGJ store: HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS VOLUME 3

Watch just a bit of the fun you can expect by clicking on the video below.

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HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS, VOLUME I covers the skills you need to begin at the beginning. How to start a simple vegetable garden from seed, butcher chickens, cut firewood, make bread and much more. This video great for someone that isn't sure where to begin learning basic country life skills. Entertaining for the entire family!

Running time: 120 minutes
Format: DVD

Order your copy by following this link to the NGJ store: HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS, VOLUME I

View an excerpt below

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HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS VOLUME 2 covers syrup making, how to culture yogurt, canning and food storage and MUCH more. Loads of hands-on information that your entire family will enjoy as you join the Harrison family in their quest to become self-sufficient.

Running time: 149 minutes
Format: DVD

Order your copy by following this link to the NGJ store: HOMESTEADING FOR BEGINNERS VOLUME 2

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Award-winning author Debi Pearl's newest book for children helps them learn how to respond if a sexual predator approaches them. Children are shown how to identify predators whether another child, a family friend, an older sibling, a sports coach, a church leader, or another relative.
Yell and Tell is written in a rhythmic rhyme that is easy for children to remember and recite. The story is kept simple and introduces a fun loving little boy named Samuel as its main character.

The engaging story will capture the interest of children as young as four years old through pre-teens. Samuel's mother patiently instructs him in four easy to understand lessons to consider how he should respond if he is approached by a sexual predator.

What will you do, my Samuel?
You’re just a little boy
When he says to you, Shhhh don’t yell?
And don’t you ever, ever tell.
What will you do?
What will you do?
Will you yell and tell?

Samuel considers his response and assures his mother that he will always yell and tell.

I know, I know, I’m just a boy.
But I can yell and I can tell.
I’ll yell so loud and yell so long that
The table shakes and rumbles
And then I’ll run and yell and tell
I’ll make that old devil grumble.

This book is a valuable tool for parents wanting to reinforce lessons that help keep their children safe from those that target little ones. Follow this blog for further updates and the Amazon blitz coming in November!

Debi Pearl shares her 'PEARLS OF WISDOM' as she discusses her favorite ideas for getting children engaged and busy in the 'doing' of learning and creative activities.



If you'd like to hear more from Debi on this subject, you may be interested in her best selling CD:

My Favorite Homeschooling Ideas from Debi Pearl.

Debi discusses her best homeschooling ideas. 20+ years of accumulated wisdom. This message can remove your burden. A best-seller!

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Being a good help meet starts long before marriage. It is a mindset, a learned habit, a way of life established as a young unmarried girl—or at least that's the way it should be.

Most girls spend plenty of time planning for their wedding, but make no preparation for the weeks and years to follow. It was with good reason God said let the aged women teach the younger. Trial and error is not the best teacher when it comes to marriage. It is much less painful to learn beforehand what God has to say about your role as a help meet to that special man God will bring into your life. It is the older women who have experienced the joys of a good marriage whom God has appointed to pass along his instructions.

PREPARING TO BE A HELP MEET is a book for young girls that also can inspire married women to recapture the hope and dreams that bring two people together in marriage. This book helps young girls and women begin to re-consider their priorities as they prepare to embark on one of life's grandest adventures.

PREPARING TO BE A HELP MEET contains six sweet love stories written by wives sharing their experiences about how God taught them to be the help meets they are today. Three of the stories are from wives that have been married over 40 years. Three stories are by new brides who, before marriage, were trained to be the help meet God intended. All the love stories are beautiful, and will show you how wonderful it is to walk together in Gods light.

In addition to the six personal testimonies, this book is full of short stories from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Funny tales, ideas of how to gain a good mans attention, and even a tragic testimony all teach important lessons. You will meet Grabbers and Hidden Flowers, and discover how to avoid being either.

This is a book mothers will want to have on their shelves as they seek to bring up daughters and prepare them for the future.

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"Mom, this stuff is BORING!"

That's what more than one homeschooling parent has heard when a student encounters a challenging task. So much of learning is fun, but there comes a time in every student's career when there is some hard work involved and some self-discipline.

It's true for all of us, really. We all know what we OUGHT to do, but the temptation when things become difficult is to look for a shortcut or quit. It's just easier to do the heavy lifting when the rewards are immediate . . . Who wants to bloom when there is no promise of spring? When you can't see the finish line? When you don't know for sure that the outcome will be to your personal benefit?

When the only reward is knowing that you did the right thing for the right reason in the right way?

The people that have been inspired. That's who. When you are working towards a higher goal, when you know your purpose is righteous and when you know there is something bigger than your personal comfort/discomfort at stake. When you have a dream.

That's why it's important for children to have heroes. They can learn about the childhood adventures of men and women that later went on to make a difference and change history. When students feel overwhelmed, they can remember how great figures in history had to struggle for the opportunity to learn so that they might one day stand and defend a righteous cause.

Debi Pearl's newest book LISTEN TO MY DREAM is a wonderful tool to help give students an inspirational hero and encourage them on to do the hard work of learning -- on those days when it's not necessarily fun, when the finish line seems so far away.

In LISTEN TO MY DREAM, Debi takes the reader through the childhood of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She tells how he worked to develop skills that would one day help him to inspire people to call for change in the laws that allowed citizens to be mistreated. Click on the image to see more pages from the book and purchase a copy for your own students.

THE JOY OF TRAINING

Michael & Debi Pearl tell how they successfully trained up their five children with love, humor, the rod, and a King James Bible. The 2-DVD set contains the same high-quality, digitally-filmed content as the VHS set and hundreds of snapshots and video clips of family and children, illustrating the things being taught. The three hour seminar covers basic child training principles, training children to enjoy work and homeschooling. There is also a section on winning the heart of your teenager followed by a question and answer session.

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CHILD TRAINING 101

In the middle of January 2009, we held a seminar in southern California. The three sessions were packed out with 1200 happy souls. We took along a professional videographer and got some great footage. Our evening session, Child Training 101, takes the viewer back to the basics. The audience was great, and Deb and I had loads of fun. The audience laughed and hooted when I wasn't even trying to be funny!

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No Greater Joy's 2010 Calendar is now available. Inside, you'll find great child training articles and each calendar page has a simple and fun-to-do craft for you and your children to enjoy completing together. It makes a great gift and one that everyone would enjoy all year long. Quantities are limited so click here to order extras today!

If you're a subscriber to No Greater Joy Magazine, you may have noticed a recurring theme: Children are expected to work!!?? Only, this is not the work of a person that commands another to do what he could do for himself. This is work with a purpose.

Why would an able-bodied man or woman have a child do something that could more easily be done (and more quickly) without the child's involvement?

Every kid is lazy unless he is taught to work. And no one is taught to work with words or admonitions any more than someone can develop muscles in a classroom learning about muscles.
~ Mike Pearl "The Only Trophies" June 2009

If you are going to raise godly, responsible, disciplined children, you must begin early, before they are one year old, teaching them the rudiments of work. There is no alternative.

“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth” (Lamentations 3:27).

It is good for the man. As a parent you can give your grown son a precious gift, but it must be given when he is still a youth. He will be a better man for having shouldered responsibility when still young.
~ Mike Pearl "Working Character Into Your Children -- Part 2" January 2003

Mike's wife, best-selling author Debi Pearl, echos the theme in many of her articles.
Here's an excerpt from an article written in 2005:

We have a 15-year-old friend, whom I will call Kurt, to save him from the embarrassment of fame. He has taken his high school placement test, and his scores reflected college equivalence. Yet, Kurt has spent most of his days working with his dad in construction. He can do a man’s job in every area of construction, including electrical wiring. His dad is always training his son to be not only a good boy, but a smart man. I feel sorry for boys who are being trained to be school boys, because they will soon be expected to be men, but will not possess any of the skills. Kurt’s way is as clear as light. He loves the Lord, walks in truth, and enjoys working hard. He has been trained.
~ Debi Pearl "The Greatest Of These Is Example" September 2005

Mike & Debi's son, Nathan Pearl wrote about his experience in taking the time to work with his daughter:

As she sat there holding “her” hammer asking an endless stream of questions on a plethora of topics, what I was actually teaching her was that she is more important to me than my job. Work is a necessity, but my daughter is far more important. Today as we sat on the roof, her child-like question was, “What that doing, Daddy?” It seems rather meaningless, but if I take time to answer her today, some day she will trust me enough to ask, “What do you think of him, Dad?”
~ Nathan Pearl "Time" July 2005

The reality is that in today's society not everyone lives in a rural setting or has a job in construction or knows a trade. The good news is that No Greater Joy Ministries realized this difficulty and devised a way for families to re-discover the lessons learned working side-by-side. With No Greater Joy's Distributorship Program, your family will have the tools to begin your own business or ministry as you set goals and move forward together.

NGJ's Home Business in a Box . . . the home-based business program was designed with a twofold purpose—to give your family a unique opportunity to minister and serve other families through NGJ’s training materials, and to give you a viable business your entire family can work together and profit from.

If you'd like to learn more about this program click the link. See if NGJ's Home Business in a Box is right for you.

That's right. You heard it here. A while back, one of Michael Pearl's own grandchildren in exasperation with her brother uttered words that seemed to have just the right cadence and smack to express her utter frustration --

"JOE!!! You DOUGHNUT COCONUT COCONUT COCONUT!!!"

-- much to the delight of everyone listening.

That grandchild's mother is Rebekah (Pearl) Anast. At the grown-up age of 12, she penned the following verse:

There’s a hole in my shoe,
And my toe is coming through,
There’s a scab on my knee
Cause I fell so gracefully,
There’s a patch on my eye
Cause the ball didn't go by.
There’s a song on my tongue,
But it’s stupid cause I’m young.

A poetic streak seems to run in that family line, and it seems to come with quite the sense of humor.

If you're wondering what magic formula Michael and Debi Pearl used to homeschool five children and STILL be wearing a smile, then you'll be glad to know that they've produced a CD called My Favorite Homeschooling Ideas. If your homeschooling days have become a drudge, don't miss another minute of the fun you should be having. Click on the picture of the CD above to order your copy today.