Reddit reviews The Picture Bible

My parents were heavily religious. I’m stuck being a manga loving weeaboo now since I never got the chance to get all the weirdness out of my system while I was young. (I’m a married 36-year-old female.) My particular genre of interest is yaoi, shamefully. (Sodom and Gomorrah stuff right there.)

I laughed out loud when I read your comment and remembered that my parents thought I needed this book in my room:

The Picture Bible https://www.amazon.com/dp/0781430550/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_eZKWAbFPN4K25

Ah, memories.

This is how I read the Bible.

I would also recommend The Picture Bible, it's the one I grew up with

Beat me to it. This guy here - https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Bible-Iva-Hoth/dp/0781430550/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538400614&sr=8-2&keywords=picture+bible. Don't expect indepth discussions of doctrine and nuance. Do expect oversimplified, kid-level stuff. I second this recommendation.

Good for you! First go to your state education website and find out what the requirements are for homeschooling, if any. Next, locate homeschooling groups in your area, talk to parents, and considering joining to try them out. Your kids will need extra curricular activities and friends, of course. Home schooled kids are eligible to have access to to facilities and programs in your school district. Music programs, athletic facilities, library, etc.

Start them on a foreign language as early in life as possible and do at least eight years so they're fluent. Have them master a musical instrument. A flute is lightweight for a grade school aged child to carry and it's not excessively loud. If you've ever had a saxophone player in the household and had to listen to daily practice sessions, you understand what I mean. Hah. I like piano too.

Make sure you cover history, geography, art and literature very well. Schools seem to be missing a lot in these subjects. Biographies are a great way to learn about history. But do tailor your approach. If you have a kid who's hotly interested in a particular subject or activity, give them leeway to follow their interest. Kids need plenty of physical activity, as I'm sure you know. We went to the public library every week and brought plenty of books home in our 'book bags'. Stock a shelf of classical children's literature in each child's room. Include the gift of a book on every gift giving occasion. And try to challenge them occasionally with books that are a little beyond their reading/vocabulary level, or at least have that material available for when they're ready.

>prepared your children for the harshness that is the real world

It's okay to protect kids, to let them have some innocence. They need to be stress free so they can focus on learning, growing and playing. On the other hand, they also need to be encouraged to take on age appropriate risks. You'll know when the time comes how to explain what the dangers are and teach them how to cope. Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, Sacred Scripture, and old classic Disney films can help. This picture Bible was a hit in our family with grade schoolers.

I had a comic book bible when I was a kid, something like this one. And now I'm an atheist. Not sure that the two things are entirely related, but I won't count out the possibility.

I read this picture Bible twice, once as a kid and once as an adult, and really enjoyed it both times. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a quick refresher on all of the basic Bible stories.

Also, The Source isn't exactly what you are looking for but might be relevant. I like Michener in theory, if not in practice.

The comic book version of the bible is actually pretty awesome, or at least the one I had as a kid was.

edit: I think this was the version I had:
http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Bible-Iva-Hoth/dp/0781430550

I got one of these recently (which has a conventional old-style comic book look)

You might like these two amateur-made comic books from the 1980s -
maybe you'd like to redraw the content in a more modern style?

Okay, this goes against what I said about reading key parts of the KJV, but if you're just wanting to get the characters and stories imprinted in your brain, here's a great resource: The Picture Bible

Yes, it's all the Bible stories in graphic novel format. I read this like crazy when I was a kid.

There's a bunch of different comic book Bibles. This one (I think) is the same as the one I had in the 80s. I just ordered one now to see if it is the same as I remember.

I think it was actually just an older version of The Picture Bible. http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Bible-Iva-Hoth/dp/0781430550

I have no idea if it's still good, or I merely thought it was at 6. I should find a copy and see it withstood the test of time.