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Myths About Education

Tresta Neil — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 22:13:10 +0000

(written for LDS Homeschool Conference, 2013)

Four Myths About Public Education

This is concerning public education in general not individual teachers

1 - School teaches you everything you need to know for life

TRUTH - Schools do not teach you about 1) God: we are His children, His spiritual DNA, we are Love, we have enough Security and Self-Esteem,Doctrines, Principles and righteous application. 2) Relationships: how to have eternal happy families, great spouse and children relationships, lasting friendships, 3) Finances: investing, creating residual incomes, how to make all your money back if you loose it (true security), marketing: how to create your own business and attract sales. or 4) How to think for yourself: make decisions, solve problems, be creative, seek new experiences.

Without these, what good is everything else? We can only take our knowledge, understandings, and relationships with us back to heaven, why not create enlarged knowledge, enlightened understanding and enriched relationships?

2 - School teaches to each individual child

TRUTH - They teach to the masses. They make each child conform to what everyone else is doing. Our world is filled with more stimuli than ever in the history of mankind and schools ask them why they are so distracted. ADHD diagnosis have gone up parallel to the increase of standardized testing.

3 - School will fill in the gaps for your child

TRUTH - What is the achievement gap? Who set the standard? You can see the gap as early as is the first day of kindergarten, due to a number of factors including economic background, educational background (how educated are the student’s parents?), nutritional intake, genetics, and parental guidance. It would reflect poor reasoning to believe that school reform alone could ever close the gap, if there really is a gap.

4 - Giving More Homework Means More Learning

TRUTH - giving children, especially grade school and middle school students, homework has found to my tenuous at best. Some public school have begun to prohibit homework on weekends and holidays. What is best for children is to give them plenty of free time to roam and imagine.

Three Myths About Home Education

1 - I can’t teach my own children

TRUTH - YOU are their BEST teacher; God gave them to YOU to teach. YOUR experiences and life are what your children need to fulfill their mission. God trusted you, when will you trust yourself?

2 - I have to know everything before I can teach (I don’t know enough.)

TRUTH - You have everything you need already within YOU. Love, Security, Self-esteem, Creativity, new experiences, recognition. We are ONE.

The Grandma Approach. “What is that?”, “How did you do that?”, “Show me that again”, “Wow, that was so amazing”, “You are so good at this.”

3 - You have to learn by subjects / compartmentalized learning

TRUTH - we can teach with principles! Teach a principle within ALL subjects. See them all as one whole with many examples of the same principle. For example: The Law of Polarity, everything has an equal opposite, find it in lips, hands, stomas, architecture, paper, what about problems, questions, lack/wealth, etc.

S.O.U.L. Self Organized Learning Experiences

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Mothers Make the BEST Mentors

Tresta Neil — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:50:04 +0000

5 Homeschooling Truths

(written by Tresta Neil in 2016 for a friends book on homeschooling)

“I think we should homeschool our children.” These are the words I heard my husband say after our fourth child was born.

When I returned home early from my mission to the Netherlands I was told that I would not be able to have children. Thom and I began our marriage prepared to live our lives without children. After several miscarriages, our first child was born. We named him Izaak, the Dutch name for happy, because we were happy for an actual birth. Eleven months later (you can get pregnant while nursing) came our second. Twenty months later came number three. I was beginning to panic. I was still working as a nurse at night and while Thom worked during the day I tried to watch my boys and sleep. I would often wake up to torn up books, painted the couch, mice chasing or egg throwing. My fourth and first girl came twenty-two months later and I began to seriously wonder if motherhood was as wonderful as everyone had said it would be. Honestly, there were many days I wanted out, four children in diapers and too tired to clean or cook, let alone read or visit with friends. Now Thom thinks we should homeschool! Forget it!

Besides all the children and work drama, how could I, who was in remedial reading throughout school and barely graduated high school with a low GPA, teach my children? Plus, what would they do for friends and social life? “Isn’t that what school was all about?” I thought. “Nope, I was NOT going to homeschool my children and have them miss out!”

To appease my husband, I traveled to Utah to attend a homeschool conference where Thomas Jefferson Education was introduced. It seemed to be the best method for many families. Yet, my heart resonated with The Noah Plan created by the Foundation for American Christian Education (F.A.C.E.). The presenter talked about teaching principles, centering all learning on Christ, and the creation of notebooks that become individual textbooks.

This idea stirred up many emotions and questions. “Could all education be centered on Christ, even math?” “Could learning be individual?”

I recalled all the times during school I would be interested in going deeper into a subject and was stopped because it didn’t fit into the curriculum or we had to move on because of time. “Could homeschooling be different?” My professor at college taught me how anatomy and physiology with the knowledge of the restored gospel came alive. “Could my children learn all subjects that way throughout their life?” My reason for serving a mission was to be a great mother who effectively use scriptures in teaching and disciplining my children. Homeschooling could be the vehicle to assist me in achieving that desire. “Oh, Tresta,” I thought, “you’re going to be a homeschooler . . . well, Thom’s going to be happy . . . HELP!”

God was kind and sent me a mentor, LuJean Livingston. She had found The Noah Plan in a hotel drawer while on vacation, she felt it was the answer for Latter-day Saints and began sharing it with everyone including American Heritage School. We would meet together once a month. She opened up the scriptures and showed me how every subject was found in the scriptures. She taught me how to find principles in books, the difference between doctrines and principles, and how my children could come up with their own applications. Her guidance became my life line and the beginning of a wonderful education and experience for my children and for me.

Throughout the twenty plus years of homeschooling I have learned many truths and dispelled many myths. Here are my top five truths:

1. Parents are the best teachers for their children no matter their “schooling”

Throughout High School I believed the lies of my teachers and classmates that I was not smart. After graduating from college, I continued to believe it. In fact, I feared conversations because I might reveal my stupidity. As I learned alongside my children, making my own notebooks and sharing ahas with them, I began to gain confidence in my intelligence and communication. Our love for each other grew stronger every day and nothing can replace the feeling of watching them learn and receive revelation for their own lives.

2. Life’s Challenges are the Lesson

Life is full of challenges and trials from which we get to learn. Our challenges included personality clashes to the point of arguments and everyone complaining at the same time. We started out homeschooling so poor that we used the back side of discarded real estate fliers from Thom’s work for our notebooks. Our seventh child was in and out of the hospital for four years with liver transplant complications and internal bleeding. Two of our sons were in different hospitals at the same time, one with RSV and the other with liver rejection. We have worked through five home births, the loss of our home and other dreams, living in a two- bedroom basement apartment with eight children and major learning disabilities.

Our latest challenge is having Thom at home while he recovers from a virus that attacked his heart leaving it functioning at 25%. Life’s challenges are our homeschool/life lessons, they teach us how to solve real life problems, how to work together and find peace in the storms.

3. Success can be Found in Daily Routines

My son who had a stroke had many physical and learning disabilities. He took a lot longer to learn things than any of my other children. For example, we had to teach him to climb a ladder by doing it with him a few times every day and at first, physically moving him through the process, then talking him through it. Finally, we had him talk himself through it until he was able to do it without thinking about it. This is how he is currently learning to read. When he reviews the sounds of the letters daily he continues to make progress and can read words, but if he skips one day his progress stops and he has to begin again.

Homeschooling is like this, it is successful when we study daily. Consistent learning yields a great education.

4. Creativity Inspires Connection

When we struggled with getting along the learning never happened. One day I was frustrated because no one was listening to the lesson, so I sent them outside to the backyard. I soon joined them and ended up playing in the leaves, creating forts and laughing together. I took a picture of the children in the leaves and put it up on my wall. Weeks later a friend admired the photo and I said, “That was a horrible day!” She said, “I’d love to be a part of your horrible days.” She was right, we had made something beautiful out of a rough day and we returned and completed our assignments happily. When mental learning is not happening, doing something creative inspires connection and prepares the mind.

5. Recording Creates Lasting Memories

Creating notebooks has been the single most joyful thing we have done in our homeschooling experience. These notebooks have become a source of memories, of recalling lessons and for teaching and mentoring others. My son asked for his English reference notebook while on his mission so that it could help him learn other languages. Record keeping is fun and the pages become personal textbooks and books of remembrance for each of us.

I wish I had known these principles when I started.

Ten years into homeschooling, I was a happy mother of seven with a hard decision, “Should I put my children in public school?”

My seventh child was born without a bile duct (biliary atresia). He underwent an unsuccessful surgery, was placed on the liver transplant list and continued to get worse. Our “new normal” would be in and out of the hospital therefore I would not be available much. Homeschool had become our way of life, our daily routine and our passion! After a family meeting, three of our children chose to go to public school. After a successful transplant everyone returned home to learn together.

I aspire to teach my children using a system: 1) remember who they are, 2) receive and record personal revelation, 3) relate and act on their knowledge, 4) recognize principles, 5) retain by sharing with others and 6) rejoice in new wisdom and begin again with the new situation.

The wonderful thing about homeschooling is watching my children learn something new and experiencing their ahas first hand. The best thing is watching them confidently make inspired decisions, apply their knowledge wisely and lovingly teach each other.

Homeschooling is an accelerated way to learn patience, tolerance, and true connection. I chose the vehicle of homeschooling to help me develop these virtues. You can too. Christ qualifies those that have the desire. If you have been thinking about it then jump in. You will be lead to your mentors, just as I was. And one day you’ll have your child say to you, as my daughter said to me, “Mom, you are my best mentor.”

Tresta Neil is a veteran homeschool mother of eight. She learned principles and practices right alongside of her children for years and currently teaches them to other parents to help make their journey easier. Her passion is in researching truth and symbols and sharing them with others. To learn more about her products and programs please visit her website at www.KeystoneEd.com. Her unique resume includes sitting on a cactus.

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Laws verses Principles

Tresta Neil — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:57:19 +0000

(written in 2012 for our co-op group)

“You are breaking the law when you cross over the double line, mom.” I heard my teenage daughter exclaim. “I had to or I would not have been able to get off at this exit.” I heard myself give a lame excuse. At the intersection I asked her if she knew the difference between a law and and rule or principle. She thought she knew and explained the traffic laws to me. After admitting I was wrong and that I should have been more alert and gotten out at the earlier dashed lines we proceeded to have a great discussion about the difference between principles and laws, true, natural laws.

True Natural Laws are dependable and constant they are not man made. Joseph Smith said, “God has made certain decrees which are fixed and immovable; for instance, God set the sun, the moon, and the stars in the heavens, and gave them their laws, conditions and bounds, which they cannot pass…they all move in perfect harmony in their sphere and order.” (Teaching of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 197)

Gravity is a natural law or a law of nature. It follows God’s decree perfectly, it can never change. You don’t have to believe in it. You don’t have to understand it. In fact, you don’t even have to like it. But you are still subject to it. Everything on this earth is subject to gravity. Suppose you choose not to believe in the law of gravity and that you are going to believe in positive thinking. So you go to the top of a building after you have prepared mentally, you believe with all your might and you step off. Once again gravity proves to be true and positive thinking didn’t work. Why? Isn’t positive thinking a true principle? Yes, but that is just it. It is a principle. Principles only work when applied in harmony with the Natural Laws.

In her book Hidden Treasures, Leslie Householder explains a law as “something absolute, something unbreakable, and something that just “is.” You cannot break a law; you can only break yourself against it. If you violate the law, you will most definitely be sorry you did, and unfortunately there is no mercy if you’re ignorant. The consequences will come, regardless of your understanding of the law.” (Leslie Householder, “Hidden Treasures,” pg. 15) Boyd K. Packer said it this way, “Laws govern the physical universe with such constancy and precision that once man has discovered them, he can, by their effect, demonstrate their existence with unfailing accuracy.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Great Plan of Happiness”, BYU D&C Church History Symposium, 10 Aug 1993)

A principle on the other hand can be broken. It is a truth, a doctrinally based guideline for the righteous exercise of moral agency. Principles are subsets or components of broader gospel truths or doctrine. Principles provide direction. Richard G. Scott said, “principles are concentrated truth, packaged for application.” Principles are true throughout time and cultures. They answer the question “what?” Principles are NOT an action but often lead to an action.

Doctrines and principles work together with laws. Natural laws govern the universe, God never changes them and he lives by them himself. Just as our spirit and our body work together as a soul, principles and laws work together. The physical world and the spiritual world are interconnected. Monte Nyman and Charles Tate said, “There is law and order and precision in the universe that is awesome! What is physical interconnects with the spiritual; what is spiritual, or eternal, or moral resonates with the physical. We respond in our very souls to the order in the universe. How we respect those interconnections will have profound effect upon our happiness or sorrow.” (Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, “Jacob through Words of Mormon: To Learn with Joy”, BYU Religious Studies Center, 1990, 15).

We live with the laws whether we know them or not but we can learn to work in harmony with them by choosing or taking action based on true doctrine and correct principles in harmony with the laws of the universe. My daughter, who now was completely in the conversation concluded with, “This act of working in harmony with the laws can only bring happiness and joy to our lives.”

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Does it Matter what My Children Learn?

Tresta Neil — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 02:37:18 +0000

Are you still looking for a few more classes this year?
Are you wanting something for yourself too?
Are you longing for more “gospel” with all the secular learning?

If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above then take a look at the video below. Years ago I asked myself the question, “Does it matter what my children learn?” You see I, as I’m sure you can relate, did not remember most of what I learned in High School. I remember my friends and I remember the activities, but I have very few to no memories any academic learning. I have no proof of learning anything either – I threw everything I did in High School away. Why, you ask? Because it didn’t matter to me. I enjoyed working on a research paper I did and that was it. I don’t even remember the books I read for school – if any were required.

When my oldest children began High School I was more afraid of what I wouldn’t teach them than what I was teaching them. After deep reflection I decided, “No, it didn’t matter what I taught my children in math, history, literature or science. What did matter is if they knew how to learn and how to think.” So I chose specific topics of interest to them and started asking questions, getting them to answer, to think. I asked many “what” and “how” questions, occasionally we got to some “why” questions. After time, our discussions became rich and often long. Their minds started opening up. I didn’t worry about getting through the lesson plan or the material. I wanted them to show me they were thinking, “working it out in their minds.”

My oldest dropped out of school early to experiment with the world. When he realized it wasn’t for him he went to college. One of the classes he took was literature. This class was known for being hard. He didn’t expect to do well in the class. The professor started off the class with I’m going to teach you to think. It will be difficult for most of you if not all of you. Their first assignment was to read an article and then answer questions she posed to them. My son felt it was simple, the next class proved to be much the same. Several weeks went by and he wondered why this class was considered hard. So he asked his class mates, they said they were struggling, found it extremely difficult to think like this. He was confused – he was a homeschool and public school drop out, he considered himself to be an academic failure and here he was enjoying this difficult class. He pondered on it for weeks and this is when he called me. “Mom,” he said, “it is your fault. I am passing this class and find it stimulating, because you taught me how to analyze and how to think all those years ago. My classmates do not know how to think. Mom,” he said at a much slower rate and a quiver in his voice, “I’m smart! My professor asked me what school I attended, because she could tell analyzing came easier for me. I told her homeschool – my mom.”

That was a great “mommy pay day” for me, but since then I’ve wondered what made the difference. It wasn’t me – I never learned how to analyze or think. I was only good at asking questions. Which became the key – asking questions opens the mind to receive the spirit and the spirit leads you to answers or more questions and often a wonderful discussion. Since then I’ve been working and improving my questions. I ask better question to God, when I study the scriptures and with learning Come Follow Me with my children. I’m not perfect and often catch myself asking, “What did you learn?” for the tenth time. However I feel myself getting better.

This year I’ve put together a curriculum for my children and a few families have asked to join us. So we are putting it all online and offering it to YOU. Would you like to join us? Not for the content, though it will be great, but for the skill of learning how to think, ponder, analyze and clarify your thoughts. We are offering six gospel-centered learning courses they include

Symbolic Math FOUR
Physical Science (Physics)
Early Christian History
Early Christian Literature and Hebrew poetry
Language: Writing Essays and Elocution
Hebrew Language

Take 1 or 2 or join us for all of them.

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How did Jesus Learn?

Tresta Neil — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:24:12 +0000

How did Jesus learn? We are learning how he taught with the Sunday School class, “Teaching the Savior’s Way.” While attending that class I had the thought, “How did Jesus learn?” The first thing that came to mind was that he “continued from grace to grace until he received a fullness.” (D&C 93:13) What does “grace to grace” mean? Are there other ways Jesus learns?

Here are a few ways:

He “continued from grace to grace, until he received a fullness.” (D&C 93:13)
Jesus Christ learned “obedience by the things which he suffered” (Hebrews 5:8)
Jesus learned a little at a time: “It is not wisdom that we should have all knowledge at once presented before us; but that we should have a little at a time; then we can comprehend it” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith[2007], 268). And I, John, saw that [Jesus] received not of the fullness at the first, but received grace for grace (D&C 93:12)
He sought “learning even by study and also by faith” (D&C 109:7)
Jesus learned and grew in grace and in the knowledge of God (2 Peter 3:18)
He was proven to see if he would all everything commanded him (Abraham 3:25)
He experienced and worked through the struggle, sorrow, and joys which improved his learning ability. (Moses 4:22-23)
Jesus was taught by both his earthly and heavenly father! (he was homeschooled and learned several languages)
He endured through hardships: He “endure it well” (D&C 121:8) and “all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.” (D&C 122:7)
He was motivated to learn because of his love for Father

How do you learn? Is it the same way Jesus learned? Are you helping your children learn in this manner?

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Lighten Up!

Tresta Neil — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:45:18 +0000

What comes to mind when you hear “Lighten Up?” I’m not using this term in the sense that someone is placing too much emphasis on a trivial matter or has their priorities out of whack. I’m using it in reference to:

Jesus is the LIGHT of the World. Look up to Christ and bask in his sonlight.

Homeschooling our children is a big deal. It deserves heartfelt attention. If we try to do it in our own strength, we may become “too tense.” We need to give our efforts “a rest.” If we feel called to teach our children, and we are, then we need to “Lighten Up!” that calling with the idea that it’s not a chore, but a blessing, a gift Christ is giving us.

Satan wants to steal, cheat and lie. Don’t listen to him. He doesn’t want our children to learn God’s Glory. If he can worm his way in with doubts, comparisons, and reminders of past mistakes, this can cloud our attitude. Don’t let him.

Lighten Up!

Over the next few weeks in this blog, on our video podcasts, and in a live class, I will be teaching ways to “Lighten Up!” and give our efforts “a rest” and allow God to be the teacher for both you and your children. I hope you will join me.

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Theology

Tresta Neil — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:08:05 +0000

It is fun to see a child understand a new concept, but it is more rewarding to see them make connections to heaven and increase their spiritual education. Joseph Smith said, “There is no knowledge, no learning that can compensate the individual for the loss of his belief in heaven and in the saving principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. An education that leads a man from these central truths cannot compensate him for the great loss of spiritual things.” (Doctrines of Salvation, 1:321-322.)

Keeping this in mind I taught my children with a visual aid of a tree.

Parley P. Pratt in his book, Key to the Science of Theology, said, “All that is useful, great and good, all that is calculated to sustain, comfort, instruct, edify, purify, refine or exalt intelligences, originated by this science [of Theology] and this science alone, all other sciences being but branches growing out of this root.”

I drew a tree with a large trunk and eight branches. I taught them that all learning “grows out” of Theology, the study and belief in God. We then labeled the trunk Theology and each of the branches a different subject of learning. I then asked them what they thought the roots could represent. After much discussion we came to the conclusion that the roots represented correct principles of the gospel, the word and laws of God.

Over the next fifteen years this concept has grown tremendously in our home. We even commissioned an artist, my mom, to paint us a friendly tree with eight branches that hangs in our living room.

Over the next several months we are dedicating our live video podcasts to sharing with you what we have learned from this experience in hopes that it will assist you in your homes.

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5 Ways to Enhance Your Walk with God

Tresta Neil — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:43:59 +0000

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God wants us to be successful homeschoolers. He wants us to feel confident and strong in our duty to teach our children. Alma, talking to those that believe (in homeschooling) saying, “I have said these things unto you that I might awaken you…that ye may walk after the holy order of God.” (Alma 7:22)

Here are five ways to get your homeschool in order and strengthen your walk with God:

1. Identify Your Needs
What do you want to accomplish? What are the needs of your children? Have a monthly checkup to stay in touch with their changing needs.
2. Develop a Plan
Every homeschool begins with an idea – a vision that becomes a reality with a detailed plan and daily action based on the goals to achieve that plan. (Think about the Plan of Salvation, also see M. Russell Ballard’s talk, Return and Receive.)
3. Help your children succeed in their goals
Children need training, resources and encouragement to succeed. Get to know them. Your relationship with them must come before you “teach” them. Creating an environment of trust that allows good habits to grow.
4. Manage your inventory
Homeschoolers are known for having many books (and I’m no exception – love them books). Managing the space for and the number of books is important, but not as important as getting rid of bad habits and replacing them with habits that improve your spirituality, helping you stay more focused and productive.
5. Express Gratitude
Tell your children thank you for helping you to learn. Thank your spouse for the support, love and help. Thank your Father in Heaven for the opportunity to learn, grow and provide a good education for your family.
As you strive to live these basic principles, Heavenly Father will bless you in your homeschooling choices and help you reach your troubled children too. Let our prayer be, “that they may grow up in thee, [Lord] and receive a fulness of the Holy Ghost, and be organized according to thy laws, and be prepared to obtain every needful thing.”

Would you like some organization skills to go along with your walk with God? My friend Molly Christensen is a very organized person with talent and ideas oozing out of her. She and her wonderful sister Marika are sharing their organizational secrets and tips. They will be sharing their cooking and cleaning tips and how to be a housekeeper, a mother and a homeschool teacher all at the same time. Or at least to be able to find peace in doing it all. Check out our interview with Molly and if this is something you struggle with take her up on her offer and get started.

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Teach so they Become Effective Teachers

Tresta Neil — Mon, 15 May 2017 21:19:01 +0000

As a missionary, I memorized the Standard of Truth written by Joseph Smith. I always thought that it was meant only for missionaries. But recently I have concluded that it is for mothers too.

The Lord has asked us as covenant keeper to proclaim the Lord’s teachings unto the entire world and to prepare to accomplish what the Prophet Joseph Smith proclaimed – to see that “the truth of God [goes] forth boldly, nobly … till it has penetrated every continent … swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished. …” (Documentary History of the Church, vol. 4, p. 540.)

In order to proclaim and to prepare the world, we must teach our children not only to be righteous covenant keepers but to become effective teachers too. As mothers we are their teachers, but how are we teaching them to become teachers?
Here is how to teach them how to teach:

The church has two new manuals/programs to help us: Gospel Teaching and Learning and Teaching Christ’s Way. They are both fantastic in helping us become better teachers and teaching how to teach.
Here are a few things the Savior said about teaching:

“Prepared ye the way….” (D&C 65:1)
He taught Peter the importance of teaching when he said, “Feed my lambs…Feed my sheep.” (John 21:15-17)
“teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom” (D&C 88:77)
Use “effective teaching techniques with spiritual principles” David B. Haight
“All teachers can improve” David B. Haight

It is our duty as mothers to prepare our children “to develop a strong foundation and belief in the true gospel of Jesus Christ” and to improve our teaching techniques to bring about worthwhile changes in their lives. It is our responsibility to “teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom” (D&C 88:77) and teach it effectively so that we, ourselves, our children and their children will be able to perceive and comprehend the teachings of our Master. And we help them by teaching them to teach effectively.

The next few Table Talk Discussions will be focusing on a learning pattern to help you and your children how to teach effectively so that we, as mothers, are preparing to accomplish and witness the “truth of God [going] forth boldly, nobly, till it has penetrated every continent … swept every country and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of Godshall be accomplished. …”

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