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This website is hosted by the Kinmont family for the purpose of serving the LDS homeschooling community. Homeschooling solves the problems of our failing society from the inside out by strengthening families. It's a joyous experience. Our own family consists of Dad, Dick, and Mom, Joyce, and our wonderful children and grandchildren. Dick is a videographer whose electronic talents are foundational to the many projects we undertake in behalf of home schooling. Joyce -- that's me -- has done most of the homeschooling since we began in 1974, although Dick taught our two boys household carpentry, plumbing, and electronics and he taught most of our sons and daughters to run a video camera and to edit. Our children are all adults now, so we're watching for ways to help with our grandchildren. Our best home school routine was to schedule a couple hours in the morning, turn on the answering machine, and study together. I read aloud a lot and we came to appreciate the scriptures and the classics. We worked out punctuation and spelling on a white board, counted beads and opened checking accounts for math, planted a garden for science, made frequent trips to the hardware store for the boys, and the craft store for the girls, and occasionally searched out good teachers or mentors for particular subjects. Or biggest -- and most worthwhile -- curriculum expenses were for a piano and for Legos™. The most important accomplishment of our home school is that our children learned to take responsibility for their own learning, which has made them all successful, responsible adults. We are pleased that our five married children all have children of their own and that all five mothers are at home with those children. Three of our daughters still bless our lives at home. We could not run this organization without them. Millie takes care of our small bookstore. She is also a great vegetarian cook and has published a cookbook. Becky returned from a mission to Minneapolis MN, Spanish Speaking, in December of 2002. She is an insurance agent and helps with our website. Krystal is a talented videographer who does beautiful family history DVD's. Our seventeen grandchildren are being taught in public and private school, and at home. Naturally we hope someday they will all be at home, as we hope all of yours will be. Home is the safest place for children to be raised and has always been the cradle of eminence. We hope this website will be of help to you, and we wish your family a happy homeschool journey. __________________________________
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