{"id":1914,"date":"2013-11-29T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2013-11-18T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:44:47","slug":"a-life-style-of-learning-25-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/a-life-style-of-learning-25-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life Style of Learning \u2013 25 years later\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taken from\u00a0http:\/\/www.heatherhaupt.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Developing\"Using<\/p>\n

I still remember the day, some 25 years ago or so when my mom taught us the envelope system. \u00a0Every time we made some money, we\u2019d set aside 10% for tithe and giving. \u00a0I don\u2019t remember if I had a defined way to split up savings and spending money, except that I preferred the idea of saving for something special so most of my money went into that envelope. \u00a0I remember just talking with her about finances and going to Scripture together as we explored what God had to say about money. \u00a0Oh I felt so excited to have my VERY OWN money to drop in the offering bucket at church. \u00a0Since we needed something to hold our envelopes, each of us 3 girls were allowed to select a tin pencil box. \u00a0While I sort of seem girly now, I was quite the tomboy at that age and nothing would do except this sports themed tin. \u00a0It saw me through several years until I finally opened a bank account and started keeping money there. \u00a0 And being an overly sentimental pack-rat {I can hear my friends snickering}, I realized that I still had it! \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Lifestyle<\/p>\n

But those principles of setting aside money to spend (without guilt), give (so I wouldn\u2019t be in a lurch at Christmas time) and tithe (because He owns the money anyways) and of course saving forever defined how I viewed my finances.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t realize at the time is that this was on the lesson plans. \u00a0 It was part of our \u201cschool work.\u201d \u00a0It seemed so natural, so normal to sit and discuss finances. \u00a0It was normal to open up the Bible and explore because my mom intentionally sought to bring learning into the every day instead of defining it as school.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know any of this until a few weeks ago when I read through and planned out the activities we\u2019d do from our KONOS lesson on Stewardship. \u00a0Memories came flooding in as I realized how intentional my parents had been even though we didn\u2019t realize it. \u00a0I was filled with awe and giddy excitement that I too would get to teach these important lessons to my children.\u00a0\u00a0This kind of learning doesn\u2019t feel like \u201cschool\u201d because really it is just learning about life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taken from\u00a0http:\/\/www.heatherhaupt.com\/ I still remember the day, some 25 years ago or so when my mom taught us the envelope system. \u00a0Every time we made some money, we\u2019d set aside 10% for tithe and giving. \u00a0I don\u2019t remember if I had a defined way to split up savings and spending money, except that I preferred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-help","category-parenting-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}