![]() ![]() This helps us keep focused on Scripture but introduce those topics with gentle guidance, setting up a framework to evaluate other resources together later. Bible Road Trip is an amazing Bible curriculum and there are plenty of opportunities in it to discuss violence, false gods, and other cultures just through the Bible stories. I’d have to read it instead or listen ahead, and that wasn’t going to work for me in that season of life.īible Road Trip is not only our Bible curriculum but it ended up being our history for that year once we dropped Story of the World. There is also just enough violence in some of the stories that I just can’t casually listen to the audiobook with them. ![]() This isn’t the case in SOTW, and until we had more time establishing that concept with my children through biblical resources, we needed something that spoke to this in a more direct way. The purpose of the discussion is always to highlight God’s authority and glory. When we do talk to our kids about false gods and idols, we make it clear that they are, indeed, false. At that stage in our children’s lives, we felt it was unwise to muddy the waters between the true God and false gods, using a curriculum that spends so much time on the latter. (I don’t believe it is even marketed as Christian.) Major pieces of God’s story are left out. The curriculum is not Christian, contrary to what some might assume or suggest. The One True God seems to be just another story among many gods. The biggest problem we had at the time is the constant focus on false idols and gods without calling them out as such. Let me explain some of these points a bit more. We learned through this experience that we strongly prefer a biblical worldview for the subject of history. A generally secular rather than biblical worldview.Reported inaccuracies (just worth noting, but in truth, every history curriculum will have some things that need corrected).When listening on audio with little kids it’s hard to anticipate to pause or skip ahead, but you could get around that by editing on the fly as a read aloud. The Lord and the Scripture have very little authority – the Bible is treated like just one more story.Too much focus on false gods and idols without calling them out as such.Moms I like and respect use it to teach their kids.Many others use it, so there are vast amounts of resources and tips available online.I appreciate that it teaches through storytelling.It’s available at the library! That doesn’t happen often with curriculum audios.My kids love the engaging story and asked to listen to it.There are many things we really liked about the curriculum: Let me brace myself to dodge some rotten tomatoes and I’ll tell you about what brought us to this decision. However, in my limited searching at the time I found nothing but glowing praise for The Story of the World for young kids! So my hope here is to present some pros and cons for your consideration. ![]() I’m sure we’re not the only ones who have made this call with a curriculum. We quickly realized it wouldn’t work for us and made the decision to ditch it. So we checked out Volume 1 of Story of the World, both book and audio, and tried it out. My husband and I originally wanted to look into Mystery of History, but at the time (our oldest was 6) some other more experienced moms advised that it might be better to wait a few years because it was a bit more rigorous than we probably needed right away. The Story of the World is a very popular history curriculum in Christian homeschool circles and co-ops. It just didn’t fit our needs at the time and we found other resources that better match our goals and values.) I don’t think Story of the World is a “bad” curriculum. ![]() I have updated the post to reflect what we’ve used instead, and you can also find our current curriculum picks here. (Note: When I originally wrote this post, my oldest was 6 at the time. That’s part of the beauty of homeschooling! ❤️ If you’re on the fence about whether to use Story of the World, my hope is that sharing our thought processes here will help you one way or the other! Bottom line: do what works best for your family. What works for one family doesn’t work for everyone! For us, one of those times was when we tried out Story of the World and ended up ditching it for a different approach. If you’ve been homeschooling for any length of time, you’ve come across a situation where you thought a curriculum would be a big win and quickly realized it wouldn’t work for you. ![]()
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