Welcome to Learn Away Books!
Thank you so much for taking the time to look at our family’s curriculum.
Learn Away books has been written by parents for parents and reviewed by the children who were the inspiration for the curriculum.
If you are a parent, I am sure that you feel the same way my husband and I do. You want the best for your child or children. You want them to be able to go out into the world and accomplish or learn anything that they want to.
As followers of Jesus Christ, ultimately, we want our children to be able to read and comprehend the Bible. We want them to have critical thinking skills firmly established at a young age, so they are ready to examine and accept the truths found in the Bible for themselves.
Bible time for our family is essential. Teaching children about their loving Creator and Savior is the ultimate and heavily repeated command to parents throughout the Bible. But, if we do not teach them to read and think through the truths the Bible reveals and to also be able to recognize the deceptions the world offers loudly through our culture, have we truly accomplished our mission? Have we fulfilled God’s command to teach our children these things diligently?
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:7
Now, before we continue, we want to say that you certainly do not have to be a Christian to use this curriculum effectively.
But, in the interest of honesty and openness, we are followers of Jesus Christ, and, therefore, those beliefs will come through in the curriculum.
Before you dismiss this curriculum as being, perhaps, biased to one belief system, please consider the reality that no matter what book you read or video you view, the bias of the author will shine through.
“Bias,” though now used as a naughty word in our modern culture, merely means the lens through which a person views the world. Every person has developed a pair of glasses that he or she puts on and looks at every other person, viewpoint or opinion with. This could also be called a “worldview.”
Life experience is the major driving force behind these glasses, and it is simply dishonest to say that you or anyone else does not have their own set of worldview glasses.
I also like to think of it as our own personal flavor.
Take coffee for example. I (Kari) cannot stand the taste or smell of coffee. (Although, if I smell it, I invariably want donuts. But, who doesn’t, right?)
Coffee has a very strong flavor. Over the years I have had friend after friend say, “No, you can’t taste the coffee when you get it mixed with this other flavor, etc.”
No matter what other flavor you attempt to foist on coffee, it still tastes like coffee! There is no way around this fact!
Anyway, my point is that we all have our own flavor that we bring to anything we create or compose.
Many authors and teachers, however, are not honest about their own bias in their work. So, we wanted to be different. We are letting you know from the very beginning that the Bible is the foundation of our beliefs and that it will resonate throughout the curriculum.
However, we hope you will still give this curriculum a try and that it will bless your family!