Léo's Insights
A place where issues related to the Christian walk and its application to home education is discussed.
Topics are meant to challenge you to think differently, to make a difference in this world, starting with the children you have been blessed with.
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Where To Sit
It is simply amazing what a single word or negligible action can create. I have personally taken some very harsh criticisms and serious personal insults over things so small, I had to really think hard to imagine how it could have been offensive. I have actually seen a single misplaced word completely destroy a potential or even existing relationship. Hard to imagine this is grownup behaviour, but then again, our modern society seems to celebrate immaturity over common sense and decorum.
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The Computer Issue
As previously mentioned, Education Unlimited has been at the forefront of digital technology usage since our very beginning. In fact, my wife, Faye, and I were the first to perform our facilitation duties as a couple while using one of the first laptop computers available. This presented us with the ability to complete all our reporting on site without needing to retroactively make changes or later type things into a computer. All this when the rest of the home education world was still using pen and paper.
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Who Has Your Back?
Those of us who tend to be leaders, movers and shakers often believe we are on our own. That is, we are more likely to see ourselves as loners, as the people who are with us are usually following us rather than walking beside us.
While this may be the perception we have, it is actually not true. To start, scripture says there is one who stays closer than a brother. Assuming what we are doing is in keeping with God’s design and direction, we can take that to mean the Holy Spirit is always there not only to guide us but to comfort us as well.
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Setting A Child Straight – Part 2
Last time, we discussed how student records are handled and how one can see patterns of behaviour when studying the contents of those records. By that I mean not only a student’s behavioural issues, but also those of a school which is funded at a higher rate when students are deemed “special needs.”
The particular student being discussed in this episode had gotten to a point of no return at the school he was attending. He was so bad, the school had run out of possible issues for extra funding. In desperation, the boy’s parents removed him from the school, determining to educate him themselves at home, and enrolling him with us. As a result, we visited the family and got to know why this child’s student record was such a long “rap sheet”.
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Setting A Child Straight – Part 1
Once upon a time, all student records were paper. Thankfully that is now in the past. EU had many filling cabinets full of documents no one ever read or asked for. When a student left our school for another, we obligingly packaged up all the student’s records and sent them to the new school, which likely filed the documents in a new filing cabinet without ever reading the material either. Similarly, if a student came to us from another school, we had to inform the former school of the child’s enrolment with us and request the student’s records be transferred to us. We then filed them in our cabinets, usually also without looking at the contents.
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Do You Actually Want To Be Free?
A silly song we sometimes hear says, “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” As funny as this may seem, it is true. Similarly, everybody wants to be free, but nobody wants to exercise freedom. An interesting observation may help you to understand what I mean.
I have been a bird watcher and studier for as long as I can remember. I have always desired to have the freedom birds seem to have, even if most fall prey to something. As a consequence, I am very upset to encounter birds that have been pinioned, that is have had parts of their wings amputated to prevent them from flying. This is usually done to benefit the owners, whom I believe should consider what it would be like to have their legs amputated.
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Christmas Break (Part 2)
Léo’s Insights is taking a two-week Christmas break. It will return on January 7, 2025.
Christmas Break (Part 1)
Léo’s Insights is taking a two-week Christmas break. It will return on January 7, 2025.
Cancelling Christmas
No one knows when Jesus was actually born. I cannot lay claim to having more information than the rest, but scholars think it was sometime in October. God’s incarnation on earth is the most significant event in all of history so the fact that He came makes His actual date of arrival of little significance.
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Boredom With Class
I must admit, the young lady was very attractive. Not only was she pretty, but she had a confident demeanour that went beyond her good looks. She did not play the arrogant “aren’t I pretty” game, and most of the young fellows would have loved to ask her out on a date. However, she was so sure of herself, most of the guys thought she was out of their “league”.