Children and Youth
Education in this mortal life begins shortly after conception, when an unborn baby learns to recognize his mother’s and others’ voices while developing in the womb. The process of education continues in more assertively after birth through a baby’s interactions with a new world, including other people.
At Prosperopedia.com, we follow the education process from the very beginnings throughout a person’s life to the end.
This section of Prosperopedia.com is dedicated to the education of children and youth and includes topics such as:
- Helping kids develop motor skills
- Monitoring the progress of children as they move from newborn to adolescence
- Teaching a child to reach
- Schooling options, including homeschooling and formal schooling such as public and private schools
- Preparing children to be productive in an increasingly competitive world
- Ensuring that technology is a help rather than a hindrance in the education process
- The critical roles of music, sports, and free play for education
We hope you find benefit in the educational resources you find here, and that your life is made more fulfilling as you use this information to help yourself and others within your realm of influence succeed in educational pursuits so they can ultimately prosper.
Raising a Large Family
Having a large family is no small endeavor in today’s world. Here’s why large families are important and how to make one work.
Homeschooling: Applying Essentialism to Educating Children
Several years ago when my wife and I were preparing for our oldest child to go to school, we handpicked a nice K-12 private school that provided a great learning environment where moral and religious values aligned with ours were instilled right alongside a solid secular education. So that we’d have better access to the…
Self-Reliance Principles
Achieving self-reliance is a worthy goal for individuals, parents, and families. Being self-reliant brings a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that cannot be achieved in any other way. What is Self-Reliance? Self-reliance is the ability of a person to take care of himself or herself in several different areas of life, including financially, spiritually, emotionally,…
How to Prevent Homosexuality and Gender Confusion in Children
The erosion of morality and traditional values – especially over the several decades since the sexual revolution of the 1960s – has created a culture in modern society that is confusing in too many ways. Random public shootings, depression, anxiety, suicide, a general lack of honesty and integrity, and a host of other societal breakdowns…
Why I’m Teaching My Kids to Code
I really don’t want any of my children to be a coder for a living. But I’m teaching all of them to write code. Here’s why. My Own Software Development Experience There was a time in my life when I thought I would spend my next thirty or so years employed in a career, from…
Education Can (and Absolutely Should) Include Both Music and Sports
Recently at a music competition two of my kids were participating in, I was chatting with one of the organizers about my family’s busy Saturday going between sports activities (including two basketball games and a baseball practice for two of my boys) and music oriented items on our calendar, which involved a practice for an…
Benefits of Music Education for Child Development
Several years ago I had a conversation with a relative of mine who was considering a new hobby for his young son after the boy decided that he didn’t like wrestling. Having learned to play the piano in my early adult years, I volunteered to give the kid a few piano lessons and give him…
Why We Choose to Homeschool Our Kids
My wife and I currently homeschool three of our four school-aged kids. We plan to ultimately homeschool all of our children for at least some portion of their early education, possibly through high school. We often have had to defend our decision to homeschool over the past six years following our decision to take our…
Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Mothers
My husband asked me to write a companion post to his Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Fathers article. My first reaction was to feel a little inadequate. After all, at the ripe old age of 34, I really do not consider myself an expert at anything. I have made many rookie mistakes along…
Beginners Guide to Raising a Family for Fathers
Let me start out this simple guide by giving some of my background. That seems like a good starting point. I’m going to share with you some of the things I’ve learned over the past 15-plus years of being married. I’ll also go beyond that time in history and share what I’ve learned about what…
Why Finland’s Education System Leads the World
Finland has been recognized recently as having the most effective school system in the world. Here are some of the reasons the Finnish way of teaching appears to have an advantage on other methods.
Recent Homeschooling Trend Caused by School Security Concerns
With the recent and increase