Last of Issacharian books on Trademe
By admin | July 4, 2008
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=2366144
Life in the Single Lane by Aprill Brunson
Outside Hollywood by Isaac Botkin
Raising Maidens of Virtue by Stacy McDonald
Be Fruitful and Multiply by Nancy Campbell
Verses of Virtue by Elizabeth Beall Phillips
Christian Modesty/Public Undressing of Ameria
Sensibility Patterns-Regency Spencer/Pelisse
Sensibility Patterns-Regency Gown Pattern
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Breastfeeding Modesty Apron
By admin | July 2, 2008
Breastfeeding Modesty Apron 
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This apron works a charm!
simply put the strap around your neck and let this cloth take all the awkwardness out of feeding in public!
These feeding aprons (or you cold call them bibs - only they are for mum to wear!) are a generous width to give plenty of cover whichever side you are feeding on. The boning around the neck forms a discreet sort of veiwing peekhole for mother to check down on her baby, or the boning can be flattened against mum to “close her viewing window”
Adjustable button-closed neck strap
Makes a great present for a new mum or
Perfect as a baby shower gift
Available in the following colours:
please indicate which colour you would like
~ Yellow bears (featured in photo)
(colours are listed from top to bottom of photo)
~ Floral - Cotton
~ Blue Sheep - Cotton/poly mix
~ Pink Sheep - Cotton/poly mix
~ Pale Blue Print - Cotton
~ Blue Polkadot - Cotton
~ Candy Dots - Cotton
~ Candy Stripes - Cotton
Made by Charmagne Smith
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Photo Contest Now Accepting Entries
By admin | July 1, 2008
Photo Contest Now Accepting Entries
HSLDA’s homeschool Photo Contest is accepting entries through August 1. Students must submit a photo with one of the following fruits of the spirit as their theme:
Category 1 (students age 7-11): Gentleness
Category 2 (students age 12-15): Faithfulness
Category 3 (students age 16-19): Self-control
For contest rules, entry fees and entry forms >>
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Eye checks
By admin | July 1, 2008
If you have a Community Services Card your children under 15 years old can have their eyes checked for free and a subsidy made towards their glasses (if they need some). Contact your optometrist for details.
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Government chases homeschool family
By admin | July 1, 2008
Mom, dad now seek help from human rights tribunal
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68432
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Members of a homeschooling German family who made a forced move to Austria where the activity remains legal now have fled again – this time to Canada – to escape continuing government actions that now also are the subject of a protest lodged at the European Court of Human Rights.
The case involving Andreas and Katharina Plett is being addressed by Joel Thornton, chief of the International Human Rights Group, who alleges Germany is violating articles 8, 9, 10, 14, and 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights with its persecution of homeschooling families.
The Paderborn family is among several in Germany who have challenged that nation’s Nazi-era ban on parents teaching their children at home. Thornton told WND in the Pletts’ case, one of the government maneuvers gave the authority to determine where the Pletts’ two youngest children live to the Youth Welfare Office.
It happened because of their homeschooling. According to a Brussels Journal report at the time, a plain-clothes policewoman rang the Pletts’ doorbell early one day, and when Katharina Plett opened the door, a team of officers who had concealed themselves forced their way in.
Katharina was able to notify her husband by telephone since he and the children were not at home, and instead of returning they traveled directly to Austria and set up a residence.
However, German authorities continue to try to impose their requirements on the family, since they still own property in Germany, and the Pletts now are challenging not only the authority to decide where the children will live but the other decisions in their case as well.
“About a month ago the family fled to Canada to be together without fear of government officials taking their children,” Thornton told WND about the family.
“Though the court has been unwilling to uphold international law in regards to parents’ rights in educational matters it is our hope that the court will look at the number of families continuing to have problems and decide to take the initiative to enforce the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights that are currently being violated by the German courts,” Thornton said.
The earlier decision came in the now-infamous Konrad case. There, the same court concluded that Germany’s ban on homeschooling – in place since the Nazis reigned – does not violate the convention’s religious rights provision, finding that it was important for the nation to avoid parallel societies created by religious groups.
The new case raises that issue, but several others as well.
“The Plett family has suffered the deprivation of their rights guaranteed under Article 8 of the Convention in that respect for their private and family life has been violated without demonstrated necessity for national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, the prevention of disorder or crime, the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others,” the complaint, filed on Friday, says.
It also alleges violations of Article 9 in that their “religious convictions” have been violated and Article 10 violations involving “freedom of expression, particularly the freedom to impart information and ideas without interference by public authorities.”
Further, the court action alleges Germany is discriminating against them based on their religious convictions and under Protocol 1, Article 2 in that “in the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the state shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religions and philosophical convictions.”
“The Plett family is asking this court to overturn the decision of all the German courts and declare that the state took improper custody of their children while exercising their rights. … The Plett family asks this court to clarify that the rights guaranteed under Articles 8, 9, 10 and 14 are not subject to governmental intervention without clear and convincing evidence that homeschooling their children would rise to the level of violating the interferences regulated by the Convention. That is not the case here,” the appeal said.
The action also seeks a cancellation of all fines imposed by Germany and the recovery of all costs.
Thornton told WND the children continue to live with the family only because the state Youth Welfare Office never has exercised its authority to determine where they are required to live. Such situations are not unusual in Germany. However, they create huge complications for families doing any traveling.
The Pletts have their roots in Germany but had been living in Russia before returning. They decided to homeschool after the parents” perceived a negative influence of the public school onto their children.”
It was in 2005 when German authorities ordered decisions about the children’s residence given to the Youth Welfare Office without a hearing. The result was the family’s sudden move to Austria. Their further move came after Germany continued to try to exercise control of the family even while living in Austria.
In 2006, the Strasbourg, France-based court ruled in the Konrad case. In that dispute, Fritz and Marianna Konrad, who argued Germany’s compulsory school attendance endangered their children’s religious upbringing and promotes teaching inconsistent with the family’s Christian faith, were told they did not have a case.
The court said the Konrads belong to a “Christian community which is strongly attached to the Bible” and rejected public schooling because of the explicit sexual indoctrination programs that the courses there include.
The German court already had ruled that the parental “wish” to have their children grow up in a home without such influences “could not take priority over compulsory school attendance.” The decision also said the parents do not have an “exclusive” right to lead their children’s education.
“The parents’ right to education did not go as far as to deprive their children of that experience,” the decision said. “Not only the acquisition of knowledge, but also the integration into and first experience with society are important goals in primary school education. The German courts found that those objectives cannot be equally met by home education even if it allowed children to acquire the same standard of knowledge as provided for by primary school education.”
A website for the Practical Homeschool Magazine noted one of the first acts by Hitler when he moved into power was to create the governmental Ministry of Education and give it control of all schools, and school-related issues.
In 1937, the dictator said, “The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”
The sentences for Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek came in Germany’s equivalent of a district court in the state of Hesse, according to a staff attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association. The group, the premier homeschooling advocacy organization in the world, has been monitoring and helping in the Dudeks’ case since before a federal prosecutor announced his intention more than a year ago to see the parents behind bars.
Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has commented on the issue on a blog, noting the government “has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion.”
Drautz said schools teach socialization, and as WND reported, that is important, as evident in the government’s response when a German family in another case wrote objecting to police officers picking their child up at home and delivering him to a public school.
“The minister of education does not share your attitudes toward so-called homeschooling,” said a government letter in response. “… You complain about the forced school escort of primary school children by the responsible local police officers. … In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement.”
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Why are German’s leaving their country?
By admin | July 1, 2008
You may like to respond to this article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine..
http://educatingger
One of Germany’s largest newspapers is looking for the stories of German citizens who have left the country (or returned to it) and the reasons why. Their angle appears to be the ‘brain drain’.
They ask you to write why you left, to include a photo that illustrates your journey, and will include the best.
It would be great if German homeschoolers who are now living outside the country or are strongly thinking about it, or even those who want to but can’t for any multitude of reasons, could write about their stories of persecution to highlight the issue. Include your qualifications, if any, too.
The address to email is auswandern@faz.de
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Studio 2 - Movie Mad Challenge.
By admin | June 30, 2008
Studio 2 had a short movie competition going. You had to make a 5 minute movie on 5+ a day Movie Mad Challenge.
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You can watch their 5 minute movie on channel 2. It is either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at 4.30pm. They are screening 1 finalist each afternoon. Or you can go on-line to the TVNZ website and go to Studio 2,
It is a competition that requires votes. All your support for the boys would be really great.
You can go online and check out how to vote, or watch on studio2 and they will tell you how.
Tuesday (Today) http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/656348 view it here: http://the-hub.tv/content/view/1268/123/
HOW TO VOTE: Text “MOVIE 3 Your name, town” to 8972
For more information: http://the-hub.tv/content/view/1142
Thanks for your support.
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John Mackay: Creation Research Days Auckland/Matamata/Morrinsville/Rotorua 8-15 September
By admin | June 29, 2008
We, Creation Research, are now taking registrations for the Auckland Creation Research Days in September 08, with John Mackay, International Director of Creation Research Ministries.
A great opportunity to sit under the teaching of an expert in the field of Creation Science Research. John is experienced in publically debating evolutionary experts, presenting lectures at universities, speaking at church events, and teaching children from both school and homeschool backgrounds.
Terrific family value. Cheaper and more educational than going to Rainbow’s End for a day!
Homeschool Seminar Day - Wednesday the 10th of September
* suits 6 yrs +
* Approx 9am til 3pm (see program below)
* Venue for up to 250 people- Glenfield Baptist Church, 46 James St., Glenfield, North Shore.
* Backup Venue (for larger numbers) — Windsor Park Baptist, 550 East Coast Rd., Upper Harbour
* Program 1 - Outline
o 9am Doors Open
o 9:30-10am Seminar 1 - Exciting FACTS about Creation from Genesis 1, 2 & 3
o 10-10:30am Seminar 2 - Dinosaurs - The Monsters God Made
o 10:30-11am Morning Tea Break
o 11-11:30am Seminar 3 - Man the Image of God
o 11:30-12:30 Questions and Answers
o 12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break
o 1:30-2pm Seminar 4 - The Evidence from DOWN UNDER for Creation and Flood
o 2-2:30pm Questions and Answers
o 2:30-3pm Finish
John will try to integrate information about the flood, coal, the races and the ice age into the day. There will also be 2, half hour brackets for questions and answers, so come prepared with questions and pick John’s brains.
Morning Tea will be provided for the Seminar Day. Please bring your own lunch. There are some bakeries and food bars within driving distance of the venue.
There will be a small creche at the church, available for use by parents with littlies on the seminar day and some room in the foyer for push chairs. With bigger numbers, space will be more limited. It could prove long day for the young ones.
_Costs are as follows for Earlybird Registrations
These Earlybird rates are only available until the evening of Saturday the 12th of July:
Seminar Day
$20 per person or $45 per family.
July 13th until September 1st Registration Fees_
Seminar Day
$25 per person or $50 per family.
On the day registration (if room is still available)
Seminar Day
$30 per person or $55 per family.
*_To register for the conference (or ask questions) contact:_*
If paying by cheque: *Nicky Waddell* waddell-family@
33 Gilberd Place Torbay
Auckland
Phone 09 473-4135
Make Cheque payable to Kathy Creak (Creation Research)
If paying by internet banking: *Celeste Harmse* wecharmse@xtra.
20 Glen Marine Pde
Glendene
09 837 1131
Internet Bank Account number: 38 9007 0832601 00
Please put family and mum’s first name in the reference field eg. “Kathy Creak” and also days being paid for eg. “Seminar” or “field” or “both days”
Please find a registration form attached (email Kathy or Celeste for the registration form) to this email. If you are paying by cheque, please print out this form and mail it to Nicky with your cheque.
f you are paying by internet banking, then please copy and paste the form into an email, and email Celeste.
No place confirmed without payment.
In registering for the event, you, as the parent or guardian, agree to take full care and responsibility, for the children you bring.
(On the day help still needed).
_Registrations for the Field Trip on Thursday the 11th of September are currently closed_ (Due to the high level of interest expressed after initial advertising)
You are welcome to put your name on the waiting list (see above for contact details - Nicky Waddell or Celeste Harmse).
_Field Trip Details are as follows:_
* The day will start with a briefing session (Venue to be advised).
* Approx 9am til 3pm.
* Muriwai Beach -> Takapuna.
* Stop for lunch somewhere in between. Takeaways, or bring your own.
* The day will finish with a debrief session on the beach, before returning home.
If you end up being one of the 70 people to attend, you will be sent a pdf with more detailed instructions.
Costs for the field trip day are the same as the seminar.
Both days
$35 per person or $80 per family
Other John Mackay events
* Matamata Sept 6th-8th
6th evening, church talk
7th - 10am morning service, and evening service as well.
8th - morning session at Matamata Christian School
Public Debate that evening
Contact standrews@orcon.
* Morrinsville Homeschool Day Tuesday 9th Sept
contact Robyn Smith adriannrobyn@
<mailto:adriannrobyn@
Morrinsville Baptist Church, Moorhouse St. 9am til 2:30pm.
Start time as per program below. 9.00 am
I need you to register before the event, and payment details will be forwarded to people who are going to pre-pay so that I can write out one cheque to Creation Research.
It is a bring your own lunch.
I will have tea and coffee available for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, but all food is bring your own. Unless anyone would like to organise another alternative.
If you have any questions on this topic please come prepared as there is Question and Answer time available, so you can have them answered by John.
$15 per person, or $35 per family, as long as this is prepaid, to me, and I will pay to Creation Research, or you can pay on the day, but the cost will be $20 per person maximum of $45 per family.
CREATION GENESIS 1, 2, & 3: THE EVIDENCE (Suits whole family)
PROGRAM
9.00 am Doors open
9.30 - 10.00 Exciting FACTS about Creation from Genesis 1, 2 & 3
10.00 - 10.30 Dinosaurs - The Monsters God Made
10.30 - 11.00 BREAK
11.00 - 11.30 Man the Image of God
11.30 - 12.30 Questions & Answers
12.30 - 1.30 LUNCH BREAK (bring your own)
1.30 - 2.00 The Evidence from DOWN UNDER for Creation and Flood
2.00 - 2.30 Questions & Answer
FINISH (approx 2.30 - 3.00pm)
* Men’s Ministry with Beacon Baptist, 12th-15th Sept (Auckland - Rotorua)
www.beaconbaptist.
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Individual Keystone Magazines-2006
By admin | June 28, 2008
http://hef.org.nz/category/keystone-magazine/
Keystone Magazine-2006
$6.00 each plus postage
Postage:
$1.50 each or
up to 6 for $1.50 or
up to 12 for $3.00
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January 2006 (4 copies only)
Feature Family: Lamb-Miller Family
The Faith of Us Fathers: Why Do You Educate Your Own Children? by Rodger Williams
Over a Cuppa: Two Schools, Two Choices; Parent-Directed Christian Education by Andrea Schwartz; Why Christian Education? by Michael Drake
When the Going Gets Tough: Rest for Weary Homeschool Mums, Pt. 2 by Jane Bentley
Graduates Speak: Brett’s 2005 Resolutions by Brett Harris
Home Education Research: Will Your Children Be Christian? by Bruce Shortt
Tough Questions People Ask: “What Will You Do If Homeschooling (or Smacking) Becomes Illegal?” - Conviction versus Preference, Pt. 1 by Attorney David Gibbs
Learning Disabilities: My Experiences with Visual Thinking Sensory Problems and Communication Difficulties, Pt. 1 by Temple Grandin, Ph.D
Teaching Tips: Suggestions to Combat Homeschool Burnout by Laurie Bluedorn
plus more……..
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March 2006 (5 copies only)
Feature Family: Peter and Helen Bryant;
The Faith of Us Fathers: When a Father Does Not Discipline His Child, Part 1 by Julio Severo
Home Education Research: New Zealand Universities by Craig Smith
Over a Cuppa: Living Next Door by Kendra Fletcher
CHomeS Roundup: Home Educators Impress Again
Graduates Speak: Hero Makers by Rebecca Severn
Tough Questions People Ask: What Will You Do If Home Education (or Smacking) Becomes Illegal? - Conviction versus Preference, Part 2 (Final) by David Gibbs
Learning Disabilities: My Experiences with Vision Thinking Sensory Problems & Communication Difficulties, Part 2 by Temple Grandin
Plus more…..
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May 2006 (1 copies only)
Feature Family: Bruce and Joanna Hingston
The Faith of Us Fathers: When a Father Does Not Discipline His Child by Julio Severo
Over a Cuppa: Interview with Sally Clarkson Interviewer Genevieve Smith
Graduates Speak: Interview with Sarah Clarkson Interviewer Genevieve Smith
Exploring God’s Creation: Interview with Dr J Wile Interviewer Genevieve Smith
Learning Disibilities: My Experiences with Visual Thinking Sensory Problems and Communication Difficulties, Pt 3 by Temple Grandin
and more……
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July 2006 (10 copies only)
Feature Family: Nicholas and Daphne Tamme
The Faith of Us Fathers: Answering the Critics by Geoffrey Botkin
Home Education Research: Reinventing the Schoolroom, Part 1 by Allan Carlson, Ph.D; Watching Sex on TV Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior
In Line With Scripture: Bow Your Knee by Rev Mark Rushdoony
Graduates Speak: Full, Satisfied and Forgotten by Amber L DeLadurantey
Tough Questions People Ask: What if You Fail? by Marybeth Whalen
Over a Cuppa: Helping Your Husband to Walk on Water by Cindy Schaap
Teaching Tips: Secondary Literature by Mike McHugh