Balance in Your Homeschool Life
So you decided that homeschool was best for your family and you got started. Great! You probably had fun figuring out which books to use and made some plans for…
Teenage Drivers
Are you ready for the ride of your life? It's more thrilling than a roller coaster! More dreaded than potty training! The day they get their license you'll celebrate! The…
Teaching Sexual Purity
As parents we know both the pleasure and the long term consequences of sexual intimacy. And we have a responsibility to teach our children about it. The Bible is clear…
Great Expectations
https://youtu.be/K6CKAQlNl_M What do you expect from your kids? Thanks to Mr. Charles Dickens for letting me borrow his title today. I do respect a good author. My post is very…
Being Cool for Your Teens
During the time when children worry the most about who they are, we parents worry the most about our kids not liking us. Now that hubby and I have been…
An Easter Fun Day
How will you celebrate Easter this year? If you're familiar with my homeschool posts, you know we have a "fun day" about every six weeks as part of our home-micro-school…
To Spank or Not to Spank
Do you use spanking in disciplining your kids? In 2002, my new husband and I were wanting to have children. I was also a college student taking a marriage and…
Making Time for What Matters
Being a parent can feel so overwhelming. How can we possibly do all we are "supposed" to do? When you have kids, you don't have time to get all the…
A Shepherd Experience
Looking for ideas to teach the Christmas story? This Christmastime, I wanted to give my home & micro-school kids a shepherd experience. I knew we had a fun day coming…
Helping Littles with Big Feelings
How do we help our little kids with their big feelings? I feel a lot more qualified to answer that question now than I did a couple decades ago, partly…