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[...] The Edventure Project: No one has helped us more around education and travel than Jennifer and Tony Miller. [...]
I truly connect with what you wrote Jen on Education. I’m 55 now, and have had 8 children. I was brought up in an atheistic So. Calif. home, and went through the upper class “best” public school had to offer. I ended up a hippie on drugs, stoned at my high school graduation. My wife Sally (brought up in PA Old order Amish home) and I have brought up our family with a Christian worldview, in Christian private schools and did a few years of homeschooling too. We have not traveled all over the world, but raised the children amidst large scale gardening, learning woodworking and all that goes with it in my woodshop, and learning building by helping with major old house remodels we did as family projects. And of course the 6 girls learned much about cooking, baking, and everything kitchen from my Amish raised wife and her fantastic cooking skills. No home ec. needed. I rode dirtbikes with my 2 sons, and they learned repair and fix it skills hands on. Its great to be able to travel the world with the family and learn that way, but the vision can be carried out right in our USA. Just follow the vision, and don’t hand your responsibility to the state to do for you.
Ed Sillman
Mr. Sillman,
Your kids are certainly the very best evidence of what you say being absolutely true!! You surely CAN carry out that vision with the USA, or any other tiny corner of the world and we’re blessed to know MANY families who are!! For us, the vision includes travel, but that’s just us.
We are working on a little project right now that will launch in January that is going to be dedicated to helping families do all sorts of “different” things and live their dreams, no matter what those dreams are. We’re not quite ready to announce it yet, but it’s a collaborative effort with lots of different families with different lifestyles and different dreams. I hope it will be an encouragement to families that want to step outside the box at home, or abroad.
Stay tuned!
I also come from a long line of educators as well as
proudly representing myself as an educator. My philosophy on
education includes true learning takes place wherever one is
engaged and captivated. This could be in a classroom or under an
oak tree. Congratualtions for taking the responsibility of
educating your children and not allowing them to be bombarded with
the ideas of what others think.
Thanks Tracy! We appreciate the encouragement!