{"id":16547,"date":"2016-09-09T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:57:29","slug":"16547-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/2016\/09\/09\/16547-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics for Everybody Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my goals over the summer was to cover a couple of subjects we normally don’t tackle during the school year<\/strong>, including economics. When I first pitched this idea to my children, it wasn’t met with a lot of enthusiasm. At least, not until after they viewed the first lesson of a video series on the topic by R.C. Sproul, Jr,<\/strong> called Economics for Everybody<\/a>. Then they didn’t seem to mind at all.<\/p>\n

\"Economics<\/p>\n

I’d originally planned on just going through this course with my three high schoolers. I expected it to be dry and boring<\/strong>, but figured we would slog through the material to help pad their transcripts and possibly prepare them for taking a macroeconomics CLEP test.<\/p>\n

But the videos were way more engaging and entertaining than any of us anticipated<\/strong>, and an interesting thing happened as soon as we plugged in the first one: my younger children (ages 12, 10, 8, and 6) joined us for class.<\/p>\n

\"Economics<\/p>\n

Not only did they watch all twelve videos, but they participated in our discussions afterwards<\/strong>, as well, quickly and correctly answering many of the review questions given in the chapter summaries.<\/p>\n

The title of this course is no exaggeration: Economics really is<\/em> for Everybody, and R.C. Sproul, Jr. does an amazing job explaining a complex topic in terms everyone can easily understand<\/strong> and making the information interesting and relevant.<\/p>\n

But you needn’t take my word for it. You can watch a short clip from Lesson 1 <\/strong>in the following video:<\/p>\n