College Disclaimer: Before I answer if your homeschooling will make your children ready for college, my college disclaimer: I am not a fan of going to college just because you have graduated high school. It doesn't make sense to me to accrue debt and waste time without a clear focus and reason to attend college. Outside of ...
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September 16, 2022 11:07 am | 
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I've always implemented "morning time" in our homeschool, and guarded it passionately. But the book, Morning Time, A Liturgy of Love, has been a tremendous blessing to our family, confirming why it's so important, explaining what it is, and loaded with ideas AND actual resources right in the book for your morning time! She has ...
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I haven't forgotten the day. My dad glared at me, then threw the door stop across the room. He stormed out and that was it. The next day, he acted normal. I was accustomed to such volatile cycles. Things had been bad for a while. I had learned to survive in an environment where authority was ...
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It's HERE!!! The Homeschool Summit starts today and I will be in one of the opening sessions. Click HERE to sign up now for the totally FREE Homeschool Teaching Summit 2.0 to access this exclusive video session from me: "Is Homeschooling Stressing You Out? A Closer Look at School vs Education" You’ll learn about: Why to treat conversation ...
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Because y'all, this is BIG. I LOVE going to homeschool conferences to be renewed. There's just something about it. But often they are expensive or too far, not to mention the logistics of actually getting out of the house to go. But this is the best of it all--amazing encouragement free, from home! (But the ...
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This morning I signed my senior up for one of Great Courses instant video classes to finish up her Science credit. I was so pumped to get a catalog in the mail with a priority code making a $300 class only $25! I'm not an affiliate for them, I just wanted to share what a ...
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Let Your Kids Watch Lifehacks Don't we all just want to know what children need to be successful and worry that it's all up to us? I was complaining to my kids about how many "life hack" videos they've watched this summer, even though there are worse things they could watch. Hours later, my younger daughter showed ...
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August 7, 2019 4:43 pm | Comments (6)
Homeschoolers face a number of stresses. They have to answer neighbors and strangers alike about qualifications, feeling the constant need to prove the effectiveness of homeschooling, though its validation has been long proven. Curriculum choices abound and we are always looking at our homeschooling friends to see how they are doing it, always knowing we could ...
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Even the most avid homeschool family stops periodically and asks, "Are we teaching our children the right things?" Heavily swayed by outside pressures and our own influence by the state's agenda, Christians easily lose focus of our educational responsibility before the Lord. R.C. Sproul Jr. has written one of my favorite books--a book I think every family needs ...
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Ah, math. It's a subject we worship, we hate, we love or we just tolerate. Because, well, we have to. Everyone knows we have to teach our kids higher math because, college, and good test scores, and good jobs, and success and.... John Bennett, a high school math teacher, has a radical, logical, wonderful alternative to ...
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