Dad On Board: Ten Convincing Reasons to Consider or to Continue Homeschooling

This message helps any homeschooling father get his bearings and be fully “on board” with the idea of homeschooling. Great for reluctant or skeptical dads, but every dad will benefit from a fresh rethinking of why homeschooling makes sense biblically and practically.

Jabez Was Homeschooled: Expanding the Borders of Your Vision for Homeschooling

An inspirational and motivational keynote message from the life of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:9-10). Encourages homeschooling families to pray the “prayer of Jabez,” asking God to expand their “borders,” to bless them, and for his hand to be with them.

Keeping Faith in the Family: Nurture, Discipleship, and Instruction at Home

Proven principles and practical insights for faithfully building a Christian home through biblical nurture (shepherding your child’s spirit to long for God), discipleship (shaping your child’s heart to live for God), and instruction (strengthening your child’s mind to learn for God).

Organic Parenting: Preparing the Soil of Your Child’s Heart for Spiritual Growth

A paradigm-shifting look at the Parable of the Sower and the role of a parent in preparing the soil of a child’s heart to receive the seed of the gospel. “Organic” parenting are the God-designed, natural, way-of-life parenting patterns and practices that prepare a child’s heart for God’s truth.

Path of Life Parenting: Showing Your Children the Way to Go...and to God

We have lost sight of a powerful metaphor that guided godly parents in the Old Testament—the path of life. Clay draws on Proverbs and other scriptures to help parents see themselves as walking with their children on God’s path of life, giving them direction, correction, and protection.

Signs of Life: How to Be Christ’s Disciple (and Not a Disaster or a Deserter)

A motivational talk for youth based on Romans 12:1-2. Presents a simple, memorable model of discipleship based on three “signs”: Yield to God, Stop the World, Go to the Word. Includes an entertaining PowerPoint presentation combining humor, photos, quotes, and biblical content.

The Joshua Principle: Building a Memorial of God’s Faithfulness to Your Family

Joshua built an altar of “memorial stones” to remind the children of future generations about God’s faithfulness. For over 20 years, the Clarkson family has followed Joshua’s example. Clay describes scriptures, memorials, and activities so any family can create an annual “Family Day.”

The Teaching Father: Never At a Loss for the Word at Home

Alternate title: Kids Under Instruction. Biblical principles for fathers, or parents, for instructing their children in the Lord. Includes Scriptures and examples about teaching at home, practical models for Bible-centered family devotions, and insights about teaching and learning styles.

The Trustworthy Father: Seven Biblical Keys to Becoming a Faithful Father

Alternate title: The Dad Heart. Practical, “doer of the Word” encouragement from Scripture for becoming a trustworthy father. Identifies seven "dadmonitions" that summarize all of God's direct instructions to fathers, and how to “do” them to open and win your child’s heart.

Understanding Your WholeHearted Child: Living and Learning Styles at Home

Just as we can observe patterns in God’s creation, we can observe patterns of personality in ourselves and our children as part of that creation. This workshop examines four personality types and how they live, learn, love, labor, lead, and listen best. Insightful and practical.

WholeHearted Homeschooling: Living and Learning at Home by God’s Design

As the “architect” of the educational model in the book Educating the WholeHearted Child, Clay explains why and how it works. This message covers core material from the book, including Building Mental Muscles, 12 True Pillars, and the WholeHearted Learning model.

Educating the WholeHearted Child

A 384-page handbook for Christian home education explaining Clay and Sally Clarkson's WholeHearted Learning model of discipleship, whole books, and real life. Clay covers key areas of the home education lifestyle (Discipleship, Learning, Methods, and Living), suggests hundreds of books and resources, and provides useful forms to help. Originally published in 1994 and 1996, this new Third Edition has been extensively revised throughout, and expanded with an additional 130 pages of material.

Apologia/WholeHeart 2011

Heartfelt Discipline

A fresh examination of what the Bible says about childhood discipline. Provides a new lens for viewing discipline through the Old Testament concept of the path of life as a relational process of direction, correction, and protection. Through thorough examination and exegesis of the scriptures, Clarkson develops a biblical view of discipline based on parenting by faith rather than formula. Originally published in 2003 by WaterBrook Press (Random House).

Whole Heart Press 2011

Our 24 Family Ways

A multi-purpose discipleship and devotional resource for families with children 4-14. Train your children in the "way" they should go with Bible truths and principles and Christian character and values. Includes 120 "just add Bible" family devotional outlines for the 24 family ways (biblical values in six key areas of family life), Scripture memory verses, character quality definitions, story-starters, and practice pages. Professionally illustrated with 25 full-page drawings in both a screened version and a line art color-in version.

Whole Heart Press 2004