Dennis Prager makes difficult subjects easy to understand. So much of this video is simply plain old common sense and yet we seem to need to be reminded of these basic American values that were so deeply rooted in the hearts of previous generations. Most of our parents and grandparents knew this instinctively, but we need to be reminded and refreshed because we’ve been indoctrinated by professors, the media, and our government schools. I hope you will enjoy this enlightening video as much as I did. I’m going to have my children watch it as well. Be sure to turn the music off. ~Anne
Day: October 20, 2010
Across Five Aprils~Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils is one of those books that you see at curriculum fairs, in catalogs, and on homechoolers reading lists especially if they are studying the Civil War Era.
So, upon many recommendations, we read this book recently. Across Five Aprils is a sad book to read to your children. It was not twaddle for sure, and it got our family talking about the Civil war, but because you become so acquainted with how a family is affected by the war, it is so very depressing and sad.
I don’t mind a sad book. I like that melancholy feeling you get when you read certain books. But if the book is going to be so sober, it must have a higher meaning or purpose in it. The only meaning I got out of this book is that war is horrible and senseless. It seems to me that God was mostly absent from this story, but there was plenty of sin, fear and hatred. There was also kindness, love, and mercy shown through the characters and also through President Lincoln. If I had the inclination to become a Mennonite or Quaker pacifist this book might just make me want to join these denominations.
