The more time I spend on the Internets, the more scared I get. This guy apparently believes that women can’t handle the job of home education, so the menfolk must find a way to do more to help the poor helpless women, who after all were created by God just be help meets, and not actually do anything important in life.
Yes, he actually does insinuate that mom leading the homeschool effort is unbiblical.
Go get him Doc 
You know, every time I try to imagine my wife using a term like help meet, I break out giggling.
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I’ve never been able to figure out what a “help meet” is anyway.
I’m really tired tonight. I’m seriously afraid to click the link.
I took it a different way — that fathers need to be more involved than just “Oh, honey that’s nice”. So many women have ‘supportive’ husbands, which just means that he doesn’t give her guff about doing it or bug her about getting the kids back into school. Mothers do get burned out doing it all themselves. Fathers do need to step up and do a little more than just read stories now and then. Whether you believe this is God-mandated or not, it’s still true. I know from comments you make that you are very involved with your children’s education, so I’m surprised you pooh-poohed the entire article.
I just went and read it again. I had had a drink or two last night when I blogged this
However, in this case I stick with my interpertation.
//It seems to me that the Scriptures are speaking mainly to the fathers when they say to teach the children diligently, yet we (as a homeschool community) have placed the burden on the mothers.//
That to me is a direct slap at moms everywhere.
//I wonder if we aren?t all starting to reap the consequences of not schooling in line with Scriptures.//
And we are suffering because we ignored the bible and let women take the lead in educating our kids?
And then there is this, which I missed last night.
//Fathers must train up their children//
Huge warning bells go of for me when I see that phrase. It could be an odd coincidence, or he could be an advocate of Pearl’s style parenting.
So although his big picture message that dad’s can and should do more is fine, his reasoning that it’s because God didn’t intend women to be the primary educators is very icky.
I read it, but I can’t comment in other than naughty four letter words. Plus, when I clicked on the “about us” link, it looked like all the kids were practically grown.. what am I missing?
Hey, how about this honey?
http://herhusbandscrown.blogspot.com/
“raising Godly seed” Ew.
Hey, we’re raising Godly seed this year.
We bought our input barley from a neighbouring farmer who also happens to be a pastor.
Any other kind of Godly seed would be… well… really, really ewwwww.
“Helping out around the house is certainly helpful (and should be done anyway), but to me avoids the main issue of the father needing to be a teacher.”
So if he takes over the schooling then he can avoid housework? I’m confused about what he thinks the ideal roles are. Husband earns all the money, raises the children, wife just cleans up after everyone? Or if he thinks that housework should be shared, then he thinks that men should make all the money, raise and educate the children, do a bunch of housework…and that leaves the wives to sip wine and eat bon bons? Maybe feminists and fundamentalists might find some commonality.