Piney Woods Homeschool

Obviously every family will handle these subjects differently, which is as it should be.  In fact, each child may require a slightly different approach.  My intent here is merely to share what we have done, not to prescribe what anyone else should do. A great parent resource is Kevin Leman's A Chicken's Guide to Talking Turkey with Your Kids About Sex .  In fact, with this book alone a family would be in great shape to adequately handle these topics without any other resources. We generally first approach these topics very informally by talking about babies.  Anytime I, or anyone in our immediate circle of family and friends, am pregnant, I pull out our books about babies.  We especially like Hello Baby by Lizzy Rockwell, which follows a pregnancy through the first day at home with baby from the point of view of big brother, and The Miracle of Birth by Jenny Bryan, which uses acetate overlays to show what is going on inside of Mom as the baby develops....

Here are some books about Texas history we have enjoyed, most of which we picked up here and there for little money: The Story of Texas by George Sessions Perry Texas: The Land of the Tejas by Siddie Joe Johnson Sketches from the Five States of Texas by A. C. Greene Johnny Texas by Carol Hoff Johnny Texas on the San Antonio Road by Carol Hoff Remember the Alamo by Robert Penn Warren The Boy in the Alamo by Margaret Cousins Call of the Southwest: Stories for Young Texans by J. A. Rickard