Hi, I hope you are well settled into your learning lifestyle at home now that we are in month 3 of 2024.
I also hope you are keeping it simple and having fun.
Today I must share with you a bit on the topic of the sale of the resources.
It’s been quite a trial to keep making the books available to home educators but we preserver as best we can to continue providing, while at the same time seeking ways to make things as easy, simple and as cost effective as we can.
I have been in communication with the various authors, developers and distributors of the books so I have been gaining knowledge along the way, such as the digital reality. As you are probably very aware, things are going digital whether or not we want them to. Some people are very pleased about this and others not so much. The digital can be a considerable cost saving in the long run and a convenience, but it comes with its own challenges. However, it is a reality and one which is having a huge impact on so many levels.
For example.
Naturally the digital way is paperless which is good for some and not for others. I was talking to someone just yesterday who was sharing how his business is slowly shutting down, he is in the printing industry.
If you have been following the newsletters you would have noticed that we have been offering a 25% discount on the Language books. All the LLATL and related novels . We have also been offering a 20% discount on the Bible resources. I will be open book here and tell you why, the books are just sitting on the shelves. We used to stock the shelves so as to have what was needed for the families but we then discovered that they were just not moving, parents were not ordering them, so after speaking to the creators of LLATL I learnt that their digital offerings, in other words their ebooks, have taken over to the point where they are sitting with hundreds of physical books which do not sell.
Due to this we are now aware that it may be that the physical books get discontinued.
Another example of this is the MATHUSEE Parent/Instruction manual. Although they are still available for purchase the number of parent MATHUSEE books which are purchased now are dramatically reduced.
Our discount of 25% on the LLATL books and readers is a huge gift to parents as we have decided to not request a reduction on the royalties (which is one of the reasons I was contacting the people at LLATL) but to rather leave the royalties at the normal amount to support their situation but also, having these LLATL books selling on our side is also supportive of us, for cash flow purposes and so on.
As I said, I will be open book about all of this so that you are informed and given the knowledge I have and that is when these LLATL books are sold out we may not be able to continue providing them however we do know that the ebooks will still be available. This of course has a huge impact on Oikos but we press on doing our utmost.
So, I am going to remind you again to keep it simple and have fun because so much learning happens while having fun and keeping it simple and if we don’t focus on that we may find ourselves being unnecessarily stressed.
I recall now a radio interview I had here in South Africa very many years ago, about 25 years actually, probably more, anyway at that time there wasn’t the massive homeschooling industry there is now in 2024 and I shared on that interview how we don’t need much to be effective in raising our children to be equipped and productive adults if we have given them a childhood of love, protection and education which can come in the form of having fun and teaching them to love learning.
I am witness of how our, now adult children, know how to learn and love learning and they are learning things now which are self taught and things which had not even entered my mind when I was ‘teaching’ them at home.
And….we didn’t have all the variety of resources available now to home educators, in fact we did not even have google! I’m sharing this to say that even though we did not have all that, we do not feel the worse for it, in fact as I have said previously we feel rich and blessed because of the fruit we enjoy now from living a simple fun learning lifestyle.
Last weeks newsletter I left you with this K.I.S.S, so I will do so again this week.
Keep It Simple Sweetheart.
The 25% discount sale.