The Body Matters for Parents and Home Schools
What's The Difference?
Parents often ask whether they should purchase an Educator Guide or a Parent Guide. Here's a side-by-side comparison:
Educator Guide
Educator Guides were made with the classroom in mind. The information is much more robust and detailed.
Each Guide includes:
- Vocabulary, Objectives, and preparation laid out for the educator before each lesson
- Page-by-page suggestion for instruction and explanation of what the book intends to teach
- Classroom based activities, Reviews, and Quizzes for the end of each lesson
- Multiple week-by-week instructional plans
Parent Guide
Parent Guides were made to enhance conversation between Parents and their children.
Each Lesson includes:
- A description of the goal that the lesson aims to communicate with the child
- A suggested personal story that the parents can tell their children
- Encouraged discussion topics to have with your child that relates to the lesson
- A family-based activity
Our recommendation:
- Homeschooling parents who want to add TOB to their child’s religion class would probably benefit from the educator guide.
- Parents who want to introduce TOB in a more casual and open-discussion way would probably enjoy the parent guide more.
Testimonials
“…helped me in my work with own children…”
“[The Body Matters] books are just brilliant! They have really helped me in my work with my own children and schools…to incorporate TOB… and build an understanding with students of a Christian Anthropology.”
“…age appropriate TOB curriculum for kids…”
“Thank you for developing a positive, age appropriate TOB curriculum for kids in a culture that devalues our beautiful church teaching. … We have to share the truth about our bodies especially in the midst of our current church crisis with the clergy sex abuse scandal. I was so happy to learn it was seven U.S. Catholic Bishops that asked TOBET to develop a TOB curriculum for kids! We need strong leaders to help us battle the culture, and battle this sickness happening within our church. The crisis is exactly what prompted me to research curriculum that would help educate my last and 5th child at home and my youngest Godchild. Thank you for helping me catechize those precious to me, it truly is a privilege.”
“… I highly recommend TBM!”
“I am really impressed at the way The Body Matters (TBM) reaches children–including my own–with insightful, repetitive, catchy language that captures their imagination while teaching them profound truths about themselves and God. I highly recommend TBM!”
“…These books are needed in this culture…”
“Reviewing TOBET’s The Body Matters was an important work. These books are needed in this culture. I read them with my own children.”