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Training Our Daughters to Be Keepers at Home CD
An ambitious seven-year program with day-by-day lesson plans to help prepare young ladies for the challenging task of managing their own homes. Considering the multitude of skills needed and diversity of jobs which are part of good home management, it is a formidable undertaking. This 601-page course incorporates both practical training in these skills and in developing Godly character through Scriptural study to enable girls to serve God as keepers at home (whether single or married). The program is meant to be used about 90 minutes per day, five days a week, during a 36-week school year. It’s not as much work as it sounds, though, since much of the course work is actual practice of the skills, not book-work. Courses include:
Cooking
Godly Womanhood
Sewing
Caring for the Sick/Injured
Gardening
Childbearing/Breastfeeding
Braiding Rugs
Child Development
Hospitality
Making a House a Home
Child Training
Flower Arranging
Knitting
Family Finances
Crocheting
Making Greeting Cards
Embroidery
Caring for Elderly
Raising Animals
Comfort Grieving
Cross-stitch
Family Celebrations
Basketry
Soapmaking/Candlemaking
Home Business
Complete instructions are included for some areas (including directions for 23 projects), but some also require the use of outside resources (about 7 per year, as listed in the curriculum). Most of these can be borrowed from the library, but you may want to purchase some as a kind of “starter” for your daughter’s own home library. Currently offered both as a hardcover book, and in a more economical format on CD.
