Impatience or Grace?
“Mom, will you play a game with me?” I can’t believe that after hounding reminding this child several times this morning to finish his math and fighting “the writing wars” this afternoon, he now wanted to play a game. With…
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Family Mission Statement: Establish Your Mission and Stay the Course!
Do your kids know why you homeschool? At some point, every family who homeschools makes a methodical decision to pursue this route. Homeschooling is not something one switches to overnight or on a whim. For each one of us,…
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High School to College: How Will Your Homeschooler Adjust?
Homeschooling high school for the first time can be terrifying. Every homeschooling parent I have talked to about this admits to at least one sweat-producing, heart-beating episode of panic: Can I do this? If I homeschool high school, will my student…
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Need a Lift? Tips to Beat the Winter Blahs
Winter’s dark, damp days often bring a certain amount of boredom, at best. At worst, you could suffer from isolation or even depression. As the temperature plummets, so do attitudes all around. Need a lift? Here are several tried and…
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Want to Be Wise?
January always brings a bit of a struggle for me. The spiritual side of me wants to spend copious quantities of time in prayer and the Scriptures, searching for God’s direction, asking Him to guide and help me focus on…
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Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
“I’m. SO. BORED.” You’re eleven year old is looking at his a textbook like it will give him the black plague. Meanwhile, your seven and five year olds are chasing each other around the house instead of doing their assigned…
