Welcome to Back 2 $chool Night (blog style) for our brand new $weet HOME ECONOMIC$ $ocial $ecret$ of the Bible Cla$$ 🍏🤩 I’m Mrs. Smith and I’m the online teacher for this brand new cla$$ (AKA $/HE cla$$ because girls put the SWEET in Home Economics;) This is a beginning level #STEM Class that adds Religion and Art. Adding Religion & Art makes it a #$TREAM Class. Not coincidentally, (since there are no coincidences with God), a #STREAM is also a small body of water that a free-willing soul could easily use to be baptized in!
For those of you who are not familiar with STEM classes….
Google says……“A STEM class is any class that focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. These classes often involve hands-on, problem-based learning and aim to develop skills applicable to real-world challenges and future careers. STEM is NOT just a collection of separate subjects, but an integrated-approach to learning, often incorporating real-world applications and connections between the different disciplines. “
From this google definition this brand new $weet Home Economic$ $ocial $ecret$ of the Bible Cla$$ ($/HE Cla$$) absolutely qualifies as a STEM class and even better, a $TREAM cla$$!
Let me explain…….
S stands for Science. We are going to be learning the science of the social skills involved in running your own $weet-home, bu$ine$$ or both. Home Economic$ cla$$e$ generally include nutrition, textiles and entrepreneur$hip but they don’t usually cover the $ocial/$piritual $kill$ it takes to run your own home or bu$ine$$.
I am a $ocial Pathologist with my Masters of Science Degree from Loma Linda University and a certificate in Discreet Trial Training. I have lots of education and experience in teaching & training social skills in the public school, hospital, private practice & at-home settings.
I have also been running our family’s home, as CEO, since Mr. Smith and I got married almost 25 years ago (May 2001), all while loving and training our four children now ages 22, 19, 17 and 14 (in 2025) as well as our GoldenDoodle, Smitty who is 9:)
As far as entrepreneurship, I was one of the main encouragers for my husband, Mr. Smith, to begin his own business 22 years ago. Of course, initially, I did the math and saw that it could be a very profitable business for our growing family but probably the reason I felt the Holy Spirit pushing him in this direction was because my first job at 12 years old, outside my childhood home, was as an entrepreneur and freelance babysitter. I knew the time flexibility and extra cash it brought me while I was juggling going to school/college & working other jobs. I freelance babysat, from age 12 to 22, for well over 65 families sometimes long-term and other times just one night when parents needed a responsible sitter.
T stands for Technology. I, Mrs. Smith, am the co-creator and online teacher for this modern Sweet Home Economics ($/HE) $ocial $ecret$ of the Bible cla$$. All of the weekly $weet Home Economic$ Testimonie$, $ocial $kills Lesson$, optional $TREAM $ocial $kills Homework Assignment$ and Recipe$ will be assigned and turned in with the use of technology, which is a private on-line classroom page. See AmenWeekly.com About Us (scroll to the bottom) for $tudent regi$tration information.
This flex-$cheduling cla$$ (not live) uses technology so $tudent$ can learn the $ocial/$piritual skills of running their own home/bu$ine$$ at their own pace when her/his own bu$y $chedule allow$.
R stands for Religion. The religion I will be teaching about has nothing to do with church walls! It has to do with hearts & minds focused on God/Jesus/Holy Spirit in our everyday lives! For children, that starts in the home and moves into school, sports, church, art and other extracurricular activities!
I will be teaching spiritual love as our Religion. The Holy Spirit as our Religion.The fruit of the Spirit as our Religion! In Galatians 5:22-23 it says, “But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, honesty, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
I discussed in our Introductory social/spiritual skills lesson with your students that since I know the science of social skills and it agrees with the bible, I can not ethically teach a social skills class without teaching spiritual/character skills (righteous living) from the Bible.
This Beginning Level $/HE cla$$ (also the Intermediate, Advanced $/HE cla$$e$ and the Summer Entrepreneur$hip Camp) will include spiritual/character training to run a home or business in the areas of the fruit of the spirit including but not limited to: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Honesty, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control as our Religion! No laws! The aim of this cla$$ is to teach the spirit of the law!
E stands for Engineering. My adopted father, growing up, was a civil & environmental engineer. He was valedictorian of his high school cla$$ and went to $tanford for graduate $chool. When he retired (about 12 years ago) he was the Chief Engineer of LA County Sanitation Districts ( the CEO of the company). LA County Sanitation Districts is privately owned but works for the government because these brilliant engineers have figured out how to be a profitable business. That’s right! They don’t take tax dollars to collect your trash because they reduce, reuse and recycle everything! They operate independently and privately! Growing up I was able to model from him, glean from him and learn from his vast engineering knowledge and watch how he ran a home that is simultaneously time effective, cost effective and environmentally effective! I have used his example & intellect to run a home while raising our four children (in the technology generation) that is time effective, cost effective and environmentally effective!
A stands for Art=! Culinary Arts!! Culinary Arts is obviously an art and we post a recipe on our private online classroom page for each lesson.
Parenting is also an art! Teaching social/spiritual skills is an Art! I try to emphasize to your students that I am their online teacher but their parents at home are their first teachers and are able to make this cla$$ come alive!
I do not have the opportunities as an online teacher to do the creative-artistic part of this cla$$!. I teach social skills the way scientific research, the bible and my own parenting experiences (successes & failures) have led me. Parents individualize the lessons to fit each of their child/children’s unique personalities, interests and home economics/social skills levels.
Teachers at home know their own student’s developmental levels and areas of strengths and weaknesses. They will be able to show their student(s) around their own unique kitchen/home, keep students safe in their kitchen/home and use the social/spiritual experiences to bond and create memories with their student(s) or entire family!
*Please note their teacher at home can be a parent/grandparent/nanny/teacher’s aide but each student should have a teacher who can individualize this cla$$ for each their $tudent.
M stands for Mathematics. Running a Sweet Home or Business includes a lot of basic math! I already discussed how being raised by an engineer has given me lots of knowledge about running a home in the most time effective, cost effective and environmentally effective way. You can not run a home effectively without math! Being time effective, cost effective and environmentally effective includes basic math concepts that most people in school take for granted! Time management/organization, book keeping, basic measuring in the kitchen or measuring for a kitchen remodel all takes math!
Running a home or business well also requires implementing the scientific method which depends on a higher level math called statistics. Statistics is more than just the basic math that is needed to balance a checking account. Along with the scientific method it can help parents analyze research data and provide accurate educational testing methods, medical interventions, sports training effectiveness or dog training and opportunities in business/investments.
In summary, the main GOAL of our private STREAM $/HE cla$$ is for students to gain biblical wisdom and self-discipline which boosts social confidence which is also spiritual confidence. It is going to help students in their lives right now at-home as well as how to be successful socially in school, sports, at church, business and/or other extra-curricular activities. It will also help students when they start dating, go away to college, get their first job and when they get married, have their own children and need to run their own sweet-home!
In order to join our private on-line classroom visit AmenWeekly.com About Us and scroll down to how to register for the cla$$. See you in cla$$!