Very Important - Last Day

Today is the last day you can sign up for the biggest and best entrepreneur conference in two payments. Big Seminar is definitely a place your students can learn how to lead by truly becoming an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs will lead the country in the future, as they do now.

You need to seriously consider attending the Big Seminar. You can read our story here. If you come with us, you will receive over $1400 in free gifts.

You can register and pay in two installments here. Click now before it's too late to make two payments.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me kerry{at}FamilyEbiz{dot}com

Kerry

Creative Sketches 2 & Writing

Here is one of our latest products. Scrapbooking is a fantastic way to give your children a purpose in their writing. Everyone likes to read through scrapbooks. After your child creates a page, they can journal about that page. Be sure to have them use scratch paper to write their journal entry so they can edit and rewrite.

Creative Sketches 2 is a fabulous book. I'm sure you will agree.

This is one of MY favorite authors. I loved her first book, Creative Sketches, because it was so helpful and flexible with my scrapbooking. Just the other day, I encouraged my 15yo to pull out Creative Sketches and look up the section with the number of pictures she had for her layout. From there, it was simple as can be.

A MUST for ANY SCRAPBOOKER!!!

Becky Higgins' sketches have helped scrapbookers throughout the world spark their creativity and complete memorable scrapbook layouts. In her follow-up to Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking, Becky shares innovative ideas that will make this an essential resource for all scrapbookers

50 new scrapbook sketches by Becky, plus loads of layouts from talented readers, based on Becky's designs

Organized by number of photos per sketch for the ultimate easy-to-use scrapbooking guide

Happy Scrappin'
Kerry

Notebook Helps

For those of you whose kids keep a notebook of their studies, this site will be of great help.

http://www.notebooking.org/

Kerry

Leadership Education

Entrepreneur Conference

I know most of you want your kids to grow up to be leaders in the community and entrepreneurs in the business community. For that reason, you are searching for non-traditonal ways to educate your kids and prepare them for to be leaders.

A few years ago, we discovered that the Big Seminar is a great place to start. Steve attended and it changed the way we run our businesses and the way we train our kids for the future. I know you will want to take advantage of this seminar and educate your kids in providing for their future. It is definitely an investment in their future.

To read our story about the Big Seminar, go to our website HERE.

If you want to go straight to the Big Seminar website, click here. You will be asked for your e-mail so you can listen to pre-conference calls. These are worth having your young adults listen to as credit for their transcript.

Kerry

Train Your Kids about Marriage Today

I happened upon Peter Leithart's blog and found a great post on Christian marriage. Since I have been sharing about women, marriage, submission and so on, I thought it quite appropriate to share here.

The sermon today is about marriage and family, but I don't want the unmarried men and women here to hit the mute button. The sermon text may not apply directly to you, but you should be preparing now for the roles that you are likely to assume in the future.

How? First, to the unmarried men: Don't wait until you're married to begin learning how to lead. Learn how to lead now. Find ways to serve now, because you are going to spend your life serving your wife. Learn responsibility now. Spend your time and energies now to prepare yourself for marriage. Consider your gifts, and seek advice about your calling. Begin taking financial responsibility. Don't waste money, but instead begin saving for marriage. Spend your time on activities that will make you a better husband and father.

If you're thinking about a specific young woman, don't place your trust in the mechanics of courtship. Don't think that getting Dad's approval gets you home free. When you have Dad's permission, you are in the first quarter, not the last. You need to win her, and that means recognizing that she is a human made in the image of God, with thoughts and insights and wisdom of her own; she is not a prize to be won or a trophy to display on the wall, or an accessory for the fashionable young man. Find out about her; don't just dazzle her with your wit and experience.

To the unmarried women: Learn submission in your home. If you resist your parents' authority, your rebellion will overflow into your marriage. If you develop habits of subterfuge and deception to avoid obeying your parents, those habits will continue into marriage, and make your marriage very unhappy. Look for opportunities to serve, because you are going to spend your life serving a husband.

The sum of all this is, cultivate Christlike character. Don't wait until you're married to begin thinking about how to love as Christ loves. Cultivate a habit of self-giving now, because self-giving is the secret of Christian marriage.

from Peter Leithart's blog
To see Peter Leithart books, click here

Kerry

Read Alouds

Most of us read silently, but reading aloud is a wonderful experience. Do you read aloud as a family? Do your children know the joys and value of reading aloud? Our current read aloud with the entire family is The Home Ranch, third in the Little Britches series. In the morning times, the kids and I are reading Ides of April, a murder mystery set in Ancient Rome...pretty cool!

George Grant has some great words about reading aloud. See his blog post here

What are you reading aloud? Please share with us.

Kerry

Great Read Alouds - I can't find a list on my website, so I guess I'll be adding one very soon!