Jaime Lingle
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One of the things I appreciate about Voddie is that he didn’t have everything “figured out” when he started having children. The value in family worship is something he realized over time, and he began to implement it when his oldest child was around twelve, I think. It is a good reminder that we can admire people who are farther along, but that we shouldn’t be discouraged because we are not as far along as they are. They, too, had to start somewhere, and oftentimes they start in a similar place that we are in. We all have things we wish we could have done differently, but the good thing is that we can start making changes right now.
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Thanks for this summary on Alcott’s life. I’ve read Little Women, but never bothered to look her up. I see several parts of herself in two of the characters.
This book is SUCH an encouraging story full of good lessons. I’m excited we are beginning it!
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What a fun novella! And this is the first time I’ve read Dickens, and I LOVE his writing!
Christmas is not my favorite time of the year, nor my favorite holiday. I have a cute household decoration that says, “Bah, humbug!” that I put up every Christmas as a funny reminder to my family that this season is just not my season, but after reading this book, I am reconsidering it…
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“[C. S.] Lewis had a gift for presenting truth in a compelling way. One of the reasons he is a master teacher is his love for his subject and his ability to communicate this love to his readers. Even if the student does not have a natural predisposition for the subject taught, the teacher’s love for it will still be transferred to him.” This comes from chapter 5, and boy is this true! A boring, disinterested teacher can completely ruin the content of a student’s favorite class, whereas a teacher who loves his material can make his students also love, or at least appreciate, the content.
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I’m with Jacy on the prayer in public school. At first, I want to jump up and say, “Yeah! Let’s get prayer back in public school!!” But then I remember there is not the same God for all the people in attendance at that school…so which God are we praying to? And does that mean we need a different prayer for all the different religions that people have?
As a former public school teacher, I do not care for public education. However, I don’t have the solution to this problem. I’m also behind in my reading, but I’m looking forward to catching up a bit today and seeing what Uncle Douglas has to say.
I love that Jenna (whoever you are!! 🙂 ) is on a school board to open a Christian school, even though she may not send her children. This reminds me of the importance of being involved in our communities, even when our children may not be directly impacted. It has only been in recent years that I understand why people are on organizations, such as a local public school board, when their children no longer attend. It’s because what happens in that school matters to the community. I’m grateful that people are involved with these types of organizations even if their children are not directly impacted.
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I’ve only barely started buying gifts, but I’ve started! Hopefully, I’ll remember where I hid these gifts. Sometimes I forget about the ones I buy several months ahead of the date.
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What a fun story! I enjoyed how the woman’s mind unraveled as the story unfolded. I agree about the issue of her having too much “rest” time/free time. As people, we are made to work, and when we don’t get our regular tasks accomplished, it isn’t good for us. I understand, to a point, that her husband wanted her to rest, but clearly, she was living in her head more and more.
This also reminds me of how so many people function nowadays due to our luxury. What I mean by luxury is that we have running water, heated or cooled to our preference. Our homes are climate-controlled. We have refrigerators with food, and grocery stores have TONS of food options. We have personal vehicles to get us around. With no legitimate struggle for survival (mind you, I know we all have difficulties to get through, but nothing like day-to-day survival), our culture moves into a self-focused state in which we have to search for things to overcome…hence all the groups and causes that people are involved in.
As for the setting, the author does a good job of contrasting the faded yellow wallpaper with the fresh greenery of outside. This shows us how stagnate it was in the bedroom. I think we can also see that the woman wanted to get out of the room, and with the bars and the nailed-down bed, the room truly did feel like a jail.
I am torn between this house being a 3-month rest versus a mental home. If this was truly a place for her to rest and recover, the room in which she stayed encouraged her mental deterioration. She was doing the opposite of what she should have been doing (getting outside, CARING FOR HER CHILD, helping with household tasks). Instead, she was left to embrace her vivid imagination, which her husband had chastised her about having. I could see this being a mental home that caused more problems than good. In either case, the woman’s mental illness progressed with the time spent in that room.
I was a bit surprised that she didn’t try to hang herself. I gasped when she revealed that she had a rope for tying up the wallpaper woman. I wonder if her husband fainted because she had the rope around her neck and there was evidence that she had attempted suicide.
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This looks like a fun list! I know of many of these authors, but haven’t read their works. Thanks for putting this together!
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Chapter 12: Summary. That chapter says it all! I wonder what Uncle Doug would say about current public education if he added a sequel to this book. And I wonder what his opinion of current Christian schools would be, besides Logos School.
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Logos has online classes!?!? That’s so exciting!
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Chapter 10 is on homeschooling. Wilson does a good job of evaluating both the positives and negatives of homeschooling. He does raise good points about the rigorous level of high school classes, questioning whether or not a homeschool can provide the appropriate level of education for all of those secondary subjects. However, 30 years after the publishing of his book, we now have tons of resources to use if we continue to homeschool during the high school years. At some point, I will need to switch my kids over to a math program where someone else does the teaching because I am not sure I will be able to do the lessons justice. I’ve heard that Teaching Textbooks is a fantastic program to use. His opinions are definitely worth thinking about.
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It sounds like no one has any ideas for teaching math. 🙂 Math is not my favorite subject, but I do enjoy learning how to do math in a new way. We use Singapore Math, and the concepts are somewhat different from what I learned as a kid. Even though I don’t love math, I try to approach it with a coach’s mentality of here we are, here’s how to do this, this is a piece of cake, you can do this!!