We Need More Babies and a Free Download of the Commonplace Book No. 2

One thing I am not; I am not an expert demographer sitting behnid a desk running numbers and formulating a top-down strategy to be foisted on society “for the good of humanity.”

I am also not a young woman with butterflies fluttering around in her head who says, with sparkling eyes and hands clasped to her chest, “Wouldn’t a large family be peachy!”

I am a woman, a mostly sane woman, who has given birth to 15 live children and who has spent the greatest part of her life in rearing those 15 human beings.

There is no suggestion here that family or children (especially lots of children) will fulfill all dreams and solve all societal ills. I know first-hand that children are messy, smelly, and disruptive. They cost a lot, even if you cook from scratch and shop at Goodwill. Too often they take all of your loving care and throw it back in your face as a “thank you.”

But there is more. Much, much more. There is SO much more, in fact, that it would take a million podcasts to tell you about the exponential benefits of doing things God’s way.

Among these are the joy of caring for someone outside of yourself and the satisfaction of doing something good as its own reward, even if no one notices.

Then there are the material and emotional bennies, which would make for a very long list.

Believe it or not, there are even loads of health benefits.

And…there are spiritual sides (I learned this from Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David, especially the commentary on Psalms 127 and 128).

Here is just one excerpt:

Children are an heritage of the LORD. Hence note, ’tis one of the greatest outward blessings to have a family full of dutiful children. To have many children is the next blessing to much grace. To have many children about us is better than to have much wealth about us. To have store of these olive plants (as the Psalmist calls them) round about our table is better than to have store of oil and wine upon our table. We know the worth of dead, or rather lifeless treasures, but who knows the worth of living treasures? Every man who hath children hath not a blessing in them, yet children are a blessing, and some have many blessings in one child. Children are chiefly a blessing to the children of God. “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” But are not houses and lands, gold and silver, an heritage bestowed by the Lord upon his people? Doubtless they are, for the earth is his, and the fulness of it, and he gives it to the children of men. But though all things are of God, yet all things are not alike of him: children are more of God than houses and lands.—Joseph Caryl.

Given the recent turn of events in the United States (including a landslide election attached to a mandate), I feel led to do a sort of homeschool unit study on this subject.

First, I want to lay a solid foundation both evidentially and Biblically. Then, I want to get into the practicalities, such as:

• The benefits of sexual morality.
• Pregnancy and childbirth.
• Affording children.
• Rearing children.

Of course, a lot of this will be mostly anecdotal, but I believe my person experience might be at least interesting, maybe funny, perhaps even helpful.

Anyway, I believe in producing this series I will be doing my part for the furthering of God’s kingdom.

If you want more detail, be sure and click below for a visual/audio presentation (and scroll down if you want to read about and receive a free copy of The Commonplace Book No. 2).

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As many of you know, I have been working steadily on producing three of what I have deemed commonplace books. These are essentially non-workbooks that bring in some structure without hampering learning in its more free-flowing state.

I have already published, and offered for free download, the first in this series, entitled The Commonplace Book Primary.

Today I am announcing that the second in this series, The Commonplace Book No. 2, is published, and I am also offering a free download of the same.

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This particular book is for children who can write paragraphs, and is a bit more complicated (and interesting) than the previous one written for beginning students. I am also working on The Commonplace Book No. 3, which will be for those who are ready to do more research and write more extensively on a subject.

My hope is to form a sort of “un-curriculum” using these books and then creating a guide book to go along with them. I hope to fill this guide book with all sorts of suggestions and lists (LOTS of lists!).

The idea is to give guidelines and a bit of structure, while still keeping everything open-ended.

(I also like things to stay simple, neat, and boiled down to their essence, an “in a nutshell” approach to homeschooling.)

Also, someone has suggested creating a commonplace book for mommies, so that my be on my list in the next year or so.

I hope this is one more resource to help you on your way!

Download the free version here: