Course Sample for Our Homeschool Homesteading Course
Month One: Making Natural Cleaners
Welcome to this new course! I’m Lisa Barthuly and I’ll be your teacher for this new course. We have many months planned, well into Fall 2014. Our “Homesteading” class will focus on a wide range of subjects with a long-term goal of learning new but “old” skills—utilizing the blessings of the times we live in!
So many basic skills of self -reliance, “DIY,” and just plain common sense and skill have passed so many by. Past generations were brought up learning a lot of these things, work that was just part of living out each day for them. Too often these days, we think we’ve outgrown and don’t need these skills any longer. Let’s not let these skills pass us by, let us learn and pass them on to the next generation. Let us live a life that is focused on the work of our hands: simple, honest skills and knowledge for living each day together and serving one another. Preserving the past, for the future.
In each class, we’ll focus on learning a new skill. I pray that you will find these classes informative and that they will bless you and your family. The class can be taught to your children or students, but you may find it the greater blessing to study the material together, either as a family or one parent with an eager student.
For the month of April 2014 we’re going to learn the basics of making our own homemade cleaners. This is a great “starter” class, and it will show you just how simple the “do it yourself” lifestyle can be. Let’s get started!
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you . . . “ (1 Thessalonians 4:11)
Somewhere along the way, it seems, we lost our gumption, the desire to make things for ourselves. Gone are the days of God’s ways, and using what He gave us. We’ve changed our mind-set, and not for the better.
We’ve bound ourselves to the man-made, and to the ultra consumerism of our lost generation! There are a slew of retailers just waiting for us with anything and everything we could need— packaged up all pretty, with no thought or effort required. It is the manifestation of “progress” . . . right?
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