Okay, you asked for it!!! Some of you mothers (and fathers) have seen a need for their sons to grow up with some man skills.Ā Maybe you are a single mom, maybe Dad is away at work all day, or maybe you just don’t know yourself how to teach your son some basic skills.Ā Whatever the reason, this course is designed to help you overcome and help train up your young man.
We all want to see our boys do more than just sit and play video games right??Ā This course goes through and teaches them some real life skills that they will need to know to further themselves in life from the basic to the complex.Ā It covers a lot of ground from personal grooming all the way to survival skills.
If you would rather purchase the book in its entirety, you can do so from Amazon. Click here for that book.
**Update I am finally doing this in a printable format.
You can get week 1 personal grooming here
What an amazing resource you have created! Thank you so much for all of your hard work! Is this also a course for credit? I was thinking of doing the original home and personal management course with my son and just omitting the final chapter. Thoughts?
You can do anything for a credit:) I would definitely do that. I would love to have exclusively a course just for guys that is as in depth as my books are. In time. I think you can take any of the books and make them more “gender neutral” for your boys. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much! I am JUST getting started on homeschooling and am so thrilled to have found your resources. : )
Your very welcome. I am happy that you have found our resources and can use them. Be blessed and enjoy the journey:)
Hello, and thank you for creating the three home economic courses! I am thinking of combining them while subbing the “guy” stuff for the “girl” stuff, for 1 total high school credit. Are you planning to add any quizzes/assessments to this Life Skills for Young Men? If not, I can create some for accountablility purposes.
Hello Lisa, nice to meet you:) That would be wonderful—I probably won’t do quizzes or assessments this year for this course:) But I may for the future. I just won’t have the time this year. But a good future thought, thank you for suggestion.:) Have a great day!
Thank you for your response, Amy! I am looking forward to seeing Lssons 11-18 posted. Do you have any blogs/information posted elsewhere on your website with specifics about infant care? Between you and another resource, I have what I need for toddlers through preteens, but nothing about babies. At the very least, I can have my son watch videos on diaper changing and bottle-feeding/burping a baby!
That is wonderful! This reminds me, I have started doing a pregnancy and infant home ec course, just didn’t get to finish it this year—it will be next, maybe before, depending upon my year. I’m sure there are lots of youtube videos on infant care:)
Did you happen to create any quizzes/assessments? If so would you be willing to share? I could send you my email address.
I have not š I am sorry
This is what I plan to do for the boys also. Maybe replace final chapter with car maintenance.
Awesome. I will be working on a regular book soon:)Glad it is of help.
I just found your website and I’m so excited to share this with my two teens this coming homeschool year. I see that in the last few days that the links are no longer available for this course but put in a PDF format. I thought they were great. My boys are not the best readers and I think they’d get more out of the video demonstrations and whatnot. Just a request to have two options if it’s not too much trouble.
Thank you!
Hey Denise, I am deciding to get rid of the old course. The reason being is that the outside links change and I cannot control the content on those sites. I am putting together a printable PDF course that will give suggestions to look up videos on how to do things. I will post a new week’s worth of lessons every week. In time, I may do an online course like I do with the kitchen course that could include videos. I am just not ready to do that yet. Sorry, hope you are able to still use it. Thanks Amy
Thank you for the reply. I appreciate your concern for the content. I look forward to your future lessons. I love this site. It’s so helpful.
When will you be adding to this list? I have a son that is talking about moving out and I think it is wonderful for him to learn how to clean house. I also wondered if you have how to do small repairs around the house? Car maintenance? Things like that. He really doesn’t need personal hygiene but taking care of his surroundings and cooking he will need for life.
Each week I will be adding, I have the entire book up for sale on Amazon right now. I will be posting it tomorrow on my blog. It does cover personal hygiene but it recommends looking up easy household repairs and such things. It is kind of hard to do that sort of thing without images. But I do give lots of things to look up and learn from another male or youtube videos. I will still continue to post weekly lessons until it is finished on my blog. Hope this helps:)
Hello. I am only seeing this course for up to week 4,am I missing something? Planning out my sons curriculum for the year and wanted to include this class for him!
I will be adding links every week until I have all the weeks up:) Keep watching, I’ll be adding Friday this week.
Do you have quizzes ect for this so it can be used for a credit?
I don’t sorry, š
Hi, for what ages will this be appropriate? My boys are still young, 8 and 6..
I found you last night on YT, thank you so much! I feel like you are the mentor I’ve always needed..
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Wonderful and nice to meet you! I would wait until preteen age. More 13 ish:)
Are there quizzes etc. for this like you have for the other one for girls? We did your home economics course and it was wonderful!
Thank you, no unfortunately I do not. I may in time work on expanded that course…actually I know I will, just not at the current moment., sorry.
Hi I just want to say thank you for all your hard work! We will be using the home economics courses this year with my 10 grade boys this year! I’m so excited to get started and learn right along with them! You’ve done a wonderful job!
I appreciate all of that and am very happy you can use it:)
Hi Amy, I wanted to poke my head in here and thank you for making this resource available! I’m a homeschooling mom of four, and my oldest boy is autistic. It has been a struggle to find materials that cover all of the bases in terms of life skills that he needs to know. I think I have the social skills and character education type stuff pretty well covered for him, but I was really missing the more practical type of skills and this resource covers them and then some. Thank you so much for helping fill that glaring gap for us. š
I am so happy that you have found me and that you are able to use this. It blesses my heart and makes me continue doing what I do. I thank you for commenting. Have a wonderful day!
I really enjoy the easy PDF format. Could you please put your web address or name at the top in a header or footer. I wanted to share this info with my home school special needs coop. When I looked on the example I brought to show in tell, it had no info on it. So I spent over a month trying to relocate your site again. Thank you for your valuable resource.
I will have to add that for you. I didn’t even think about it. I appreciate it. Thanks for using and for sharing.
Very much appreciated the resource you have shared with all of us. God bless you and your family.
Hello again, Amy!
I’d love your advice on which homemaking book to purchase first of the three available on Amazon. Is there an order to work through them that would be best? I currently have the green one, Home Economics Household Skills: Becoming a daughter of purpose, in my cart. It’s for my 11 year old. She’s has completed the Christian Light home ec electives, and would like to learn more.
I also want to thank you for providing this curriculum. All my kids love it, but my eldest daughter in particular has blossomed in confidence with your program. She’s never been academically inclined, and school was always a bit of a fight. She’s had such success with the format of your fourth, fifth, and sixth grade books, and is now eager to do school every morning, sometimes diving in while everyone else is still eating breakfast! Thank you!
I am excited for your daughter. That is why I do this..The book …one is the kitchen skills, the other is the household skills and the third is the complete book….that would have all with devotionals…the one that costs more….if that helps identify which one. THis blessed me thank you.
Hi Amy! Does this book cover personal finance? Also, I wanted to thank you for your videos. I clean with you most days. Your encouragement and upbeat style make it more enjoyable doing the day to day chores. Keep up the good work!
The book contains all of the online lessons. You can look at each week’s lesson and that is what is in the book.
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I’ve only read through a few of the lessons so far, but they seem to be a good basis for a parent to develop a home economics/life skills course for teenage boys. My major criticism is that the lessons are full of grammatical errors (incorrect usage of you’re and your, or possessive vs. plural errors, for example) and were difficult to read at times, mainly because incorrect grammar usage is a big pet peeve of mine. I appreciate the effort, though, in developing a course that is geared towards boys, as most of what I’ve found seem to be highly sexist in that they focus solely on girls needing to learn how to keep house, cook and care for children.
I need to go back and edit these..I wrote these so many years ago and did not have an editor..or the time to edit them..I will be doing that soon…I hope:) Thank you so much.
Hello- I was wondering if the book on amazon is different than your links on the website at all?
they are the same:)
So appreciative of your work. I wrote a curriculum years ago, I called “Survival” for my 7th grade year. She loved it and many local HS parents wanted a copy but I never put it completely together for others. I now have an 8th grade boy and just didn’t feel (or really have the time) to put together another course similar to that. In searching, I found your work. It is exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much!!! Also, I saw several make statements about quizzes and tests. I’m planning on ending each chapter (week) with a notebooking/writing assignment (short essay) of what he learned. I made a rubric for checking it as fairly as possible. Others might want to try the same.
That is amazing!! Thank you for sharing this
Thank you so much for this Guide. I have a 13 year old special needs grandson I am raising. I had daughters and I was not sure how to approach some of these guy things or where to start.
We use many of your homeschool resources, I am very appreciative of your hard work in putting all this together.
Tena
YOu are very much welcome! I am glad it will be of assistance to you š
Thank you so much for all your wonderful information. May God Bless you!
Is there one link to print the entire thing, or do I need to go into each chapter to do so? I just purchased the Home Econ. download to print for my daughters, and wondered how to print this one all at once? Thank you THANK YOU for the blessing of your material!!
Send me an email and I can help you luvinmy12@gmail.com
I bought the book but it was missing the first 10 pages
missing? like a download? or printable? you can email me if it was a pdf otherwise that would be an amazon issue..luvinmy12@gmail.com
Thank you so much!
Has anyone made worksheets or tests to go with these Life Skills or Cooking courses? Iām going to be using them for High school credit and it would be good to have something to show work.
Thanks.
this helped me š
really cool, helped me a lot
How would you have the kids verify or go over what they learned? Example: for science, my kids watch a YouTube video then write a 3-5 sentence paragraph about what they learned. Do you have any ideas for the life skills program?
we do a lot of verbal asking:) dictation
Hi, Could you tell me if there is an assement or week end quizzes for the Life Skills for young men course?
Thank You!
Lori
there is not..sorry
Thank you so much for this wonderful resource! I will be using this for my 8th grader and 10th grader this school year!
Hi! Is there a girl’s life skills book I’m not seeing? I can absolutely teach my girls along with my boys these skills in our life skills class this spring (just change the wording as I teach) I just wondered if there is another one I’m not seeing here?
Thank you!
Yes the home economics series there is one for kitchen and personal and household management skills š
Thank you. This helped me a lot. Now my amigo can learn to be a braver and stronger man! I’ll look forward for the next time you post something like this.