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Reviewed by Kelly Benedict
Steven and Teri Maxwell are the parents of 8 children.
They began homeschooling in 1985. You may have heard of
their website… www.Titus2.com?
I am in agreement with them that a homeschool mother’s
greatest challenge may be ‘getting it all done.’
Managers of Their Homes offers solutions that can change
your life and help you feel that you have actually accomplished
much more in your daily life than you ever imagined! “Step-by-Step
instructions and a unique scheduling kit make the setting
up of a daily schedule easily achievable for any homeschool
family.”
Why schedule you might ask? Let’s think of it in
the way God does, shall we? ”God has given us a powerful
example and analogy of scheduling in the natural world.
Everything that He created, from atoms to the universe,
has a periodic cycle. There is a timetable that God has
applied to each part of His creation. This is easily seen
in the weather. Year by year, each season comes at it’s
“scheduled” time bringing with it predictable
changes. Here we have a picture of our daily-life schedules.
These change, too, as the “seasons” in our families
change.
God has planned for interruptions to this seasonal pattern
of creation. They come in the form of storms – winter
snow storms, spring showers, tornados, summer thunderstorms
– that blow in unplanned and unscheduled. They are
often fierce, demanding attention, but sometimes they are
gentle and refreshing. So, too, into our schedules, God
pushes storms of interruptions. They can be fierce and demanding
as a medical emergency, or they can be gentle and refreshing
as an unexpected lunch date with your husband. If God felt
it was important to place His creation on a schedule, perhaps
we should seriously consider the need to schedule our own
lives. Observing God’s dealing with His universe can
give us the pattern and motivation for our choice to plan
and put a schedule into our homes.”
This is a 178-page book, with 17 separate chapters, is
packed full of scheduling tips, ideas, sample schedules
for everyone in the family (even the baby), chore scheduling
ideas, summer scheduling ideas, and even a Chapter titled,
“Managers of “His” Home: A Chapter for
Dads.” The appendix is filled with 35 different individual
schedules from different homeschooling families that gives
you a glimpse into their lives to help you design your own
schedule. One of my favorite parts to the book are the letters
from moms at the beginning of each chapter, as well as what
they call, “A Personal Word” (which is on the
side bar of each page), from other homeschooling moms with
their own encouraging words and tips that have worked for
them personally. If you want to feel that you are accomplishing
more in your days than you are now, this is a book worth
reading!
A word of caution – Each new book purchased comes
with a colorful scheduling kit for up to eight children.
However, if you acquire or purchase a book that is used,
you may either need to purchase the kit separately, or devise
your own.
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