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I Sent My Child to School
My 16-year-old went off to school for the first time this month. My neighbor who knew none of my children have ever gone to school outside our home asked me: Was it hard? I heard myself answering, but I was sitting across from my then 15-year-old son in a restaurant...
How to Customize Your Curriculum
One of the things new homeschoolers struggle with most is choosing curriculum. Even after they've made their choice, they doubt themselves. Truth be told, we veterans do the same thing. I know I will even revisit the same decisions I made long ago, just to make...
The Great Thing About Not Being Great
© Photographer Jyothi | Agency: Dreamstime.com I have always been a sucker for appeals to my desire to be great. I love it when my friends or family tell me that someday I could get my big break and write a best seller, become a top blogger, or command huge speaking...
God Isn’t Boring, But Church Often Is
Like a married woman who becomes dissatisfied reading romance novels, I have become dissatisfied with mundane Christianity as I've read the thrilling adventures of missionaries--men and women like Gladys Aylward, Esther Kim, Hudson Taylor, Samuel Morris, and Eric...
How to Help Your Child Memorize
Memory skills are both biological and experiential. In other words, you can be born with good or poor memory skills, but you can also learn to use them to their maximum. Memory skills are very important to your child's future academic success, so spend time helping...
My Joshua Journal: His Name Is
I was expecting my fourth child as a mother of three sons. At the time, I had a number of online friends who also had boys and only boys. One of them shared that she had prayed about the gender of the child she was expecting and her son then had a dream that she would...
Making Bible Time a Favorite Subject
I wrote previously about family and personal devotions. Now I'd like to address how to motivate your children to enjoy studying the Bible for school. I have mentioned two aspects of what we have used in previous posts: Answers for Kids and Memlok for Bible verse...
How to Make Time for Family Devotions
Although I haven't struggled much with personal devotion time, family devotions have been very difficult for me. Here are my struggles and solutions I've found that you may be able to relate to. Husband Not Home My husband works out of town some of the time and also...
What’s Your Motto?
I remember my high school class motto because we borrowed my mother's high school motto: Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. While being able to summarize what your high school class is all about is of questionable importance, being...
How to Find Time for Personal Devotions
One of the most common questions I get from young mothers is how to find time for personal devotions. We all know how vitally important it is for having the energy we need to do all that we do, but when you're up multiple times feeding a baby, awakened early by a...
How to Homeschool and More on TaskCurrent
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15 Days of Fitness Inspiration, Deal with Difficult People and More on TaskCurrent
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