by Robin Khoury on June 29, 2009
There are hundreds of advantages to homeschooling, but here I will mention my top ten.
- Individualized Education
The great luxury homeschooling offers is the ability for you to tailor your childrens’ education to fit their interests and your family’s lifestyle.
- Teacher Accessibility
In a classroom of thirty kids, the teacher can not be available to answer every question. A homeschooling mom has much more time per child than virtually any classroom teacher.
- Good Learning Habits
Children are not discouraged from asking questions by negativity of the teacher or teasing by classmates
- Discipline of Children
Parents maintain control and are able to discipline children as needed. This vital role is not given over to the government.
- No Grueling “Homework”
In homeschool, all work is homework. Nobody is chained to a stack of busywork for three hours every night.
- Environmental Control
Parents maintain control of the learning environment. Children are not forced to sit at a desk all day. They can go outside, take breaks, learn where they are comfortable and secure. (Not subjected to fire drills, tornado drills, and now terrorism drills which terrify children.)
- Curriculum Control
Parents control the subject matter children are taught, and their children are not subjected to sexual “How to” sessions with bananas and condoms, (unless the parent deems this necessary.)
- Security
Children are much safer from molestation, attack, kidnapping, and violence when taught at home.
The statistics on homeschooled children bear out that children who are homeschooled score better on standardized tests, do better in college, and make better citizens that children who went to government schools.
- Freedom of Religion
God and prayer are still allowed in home schools.
by Robin Khoury on April 11, 2009
Make Chocolate Cupcakes For Easter
Tonight I made some desserts for my big Easter dinner tomorrow night. I was fooling around with a recipe I’ve had for a long time for a chocolate mocha cake. I had some extra batter, so I made some cupcakes, too. Oh my goodness. I tasted one of those cupcakes and it was pure heaven, folks. I can hardly wait to taste the mocha cake tomorrow! Here’s how I did it:
Yummiest Chocolate Cupcakes Ever I started with two Duncan Hines Chocolate Devil’s food cake mixes. Follow the directions on the boxes with these modifications:
- Secret number one is to make some really strong coffee and use it instead of water. (Let it cool down before adding to your cake, though.)
- Secret number two is to add 3 tablespoons of instant coffee crystals to the coffee before mixing it in the cake.
- Secret number 3 is to mix your cake really well, at least 3 minutes. (I learned this in cake decorating classes years ago.)
- Secret number 3 is to chop up 1 cup chocolate chips really fine. Stir them into the batter before pouring into pans.
I used 2 mixes because I’m making a 3 layer cake, and I used the leftover batter for a dozen cupcakes. For icing I used the generic milk chocolate brand. I’m tellin’ ya…………the cupcake was out of this world! The whole thing only took me about 10 min to mix up. I poured 1/4 of the batter into 3 different round layer cake pans and used the last 1/4 of the batter for the cupcakes. It worked out perfect! (Fill your layer pans a little under a half full.)
Easter Chocolate Mocha Cake
I’ll go ahead and tell you how I’m going to fix the big cake. I am going to make a syrup of a few Tbsps of water and instant coffee crystals, and mix in a few Tbsps. of cocoa. I’ll log back in with proportions after I do it. Anyway, I am planning to mix this with cool whip and put between the layers. (Make sure your cake is cool before doing this.) I am going to heat up the rest of my generic brand milk chocolate icing in the microwave until it is soft and thin, (about30 seconds or so), and spread it on top and let it drip down the sides. Then I will dust the top with chopped pecans and viola! My super easy decadent delicious chocolate mocha cake. Happy Easter!
