It is my privilege and honor to introduce Myklin Cox to you and her book, What Every Girl Should Know: A Christian Finishing Course for Young Women.
Every now and then in the homeschool community, you meet someone who has been homeschooled all their childhood, and you can see all the love and goodness and joy that was poured into the child coming out through the fruit the child displays.
Myklin Cox is one of those people. I am so thankful to her parents for homeschooling her and raising her in the way she should go! What a blessing she is to young Christian women and their parents. Her bubbly, positive, honest, and virtuous outlook is definitely something I would want my daughter to look to as a good example of a virtuous woman of God.
I wish I would have had this resource when my oldest child -- my stepdaughter -- was growing up. It would have been so much fun to go through this book with her!
When I was growing up, I belonged first to the Brownies, then the Girl Scouts, then the Cadets. By the time I was in Cadets I really didn't fit in, and so I focused on being involved in our girls' group at church. I credit my experiences in these groups with teaching me a lot of the social graces and leadership skills I have today. I didn't have the privilege of being home schooled or coming from a refined family. There were many gaps in my learning that the lessons in these organizations taught me.
It is rare to find a thriving girls' group in today's churches. It would be wonderful to start one yourself -- whether you are an older woman, or a younger woman, or even an older teen -- in order to mentor young women.
That is what this wonderful book is all about! Myklin Cox has given us a wonderful tool in which to disciple the young women in our homes, churches and communities.
I see so many young ladies in my community confused about their "womanliness", and how to take care of themselves. It's not entirely their fault -- how are they to know if no one teaches them? The messages they get from the media are confusing, and most often contrary to God's Word. But how are they to know what God's Word says if Christian women do not lead them?
"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"
(Romans 10:14)
(Romans 10:14)
This book is a wonderful study for a mother and daughter to go through, or for a woman to teach in her homeschool coop, Sunday School, or Bible Study for young ladies. (I plan to use it with my granddaughters as soon as they are old enough.) It is lively, easy to use, interesting, engaging, and full of information "every girl should know!"
First and foremost, the book emphasises the young woman's relationship with Christ and her spiritual health. Then, it moves into taking care of the body that God gave her for Him to dwell in. Diet, exercise, posture, clothing, skin care, and hair care are discussed.
The book also discusses friendship, manners, role models, and Christian Character. It reminds the young woman that God has given her gifts, talents and abilities that God has a purpose for!
Home Economics, cooking, laundry, mending, sewing and caring for a home are discussed along with accepting God's timing and future.
Modesty, and seeking God's will for her lifelong mate are also taught in this book.
When I was going through my teen years, I do not recall anyone discussing all of these issues in such an honest, fresh, and loving way! Myklin Cox manages to reach into the hearts of young women and bring to light the things that are really on their minds.
Mothers who are shy about talking about growing up will find this book a wonderful tool. Church leaders who see a need to reach out to the young women who are lost and searching for their identity in Christ will be able to use this to teach those seeking young women.
I will be using this book in this coming school year to teach a young 16-year old girl with special needs. She mimics what she sees in the media. And why shouldn't she if that's the only instruction she has received? She attends my cottage school (and is my only female student!) and we will be using this as her health credit this year.
I love this book. Myklin has a real gift to teach and reach young women. You will love her CDs, too, and I hope you will purchase them for your school this coming year!
Be sure to stop by Myklin's blog, too: http://homeschoolblogger.com/heartofvirtue/
She is going to have her first baby! Another generation of homeschoolers are being born!
Myklin is becoming a true leader in our daughter's lives, and I for one am thankful that she has been called to "teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children" (Titus 2:4).
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