It’s Summer! Time to kick off your shoes, open a novel, and sip lemonade. Not necessarily in that order. Do you know what Summer is not a good time for? Forgetting all of your math from this past year. Turns out, however, that we forget easily and need to encourage our brains to retain […]
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Did you know that the first half of Algebra 2 is an algebra 1 review? Do you know why? Because we forget. We are forgetful creatures. If you don’t believe me, read the old testament. How many times does God tell His people to obey His statues and He would bless them? How many times
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Last year my family read aloud Bob Goff’s new book, “Dream Big”. We really enjoyed it. Truly. However, some of us also struggle with the jump from the ideal dream to reality. The fact is that none of our dreams have ever come true the way that we’ve first envisioned them. If it never comes
This month we’ve been looking at teaching life skills. Perhaps the hardest life skill for me to teach my guys has been the skills of coping. On one hand, coping skills are only necessary when your life doesn’t go well and their life has gone fairly well. On the other hand, they don’t know that
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Making phone calls seems to be a difficult task. So difficult in fact that my husband delegates all of our phone calls to me. The whole idea of calling a place that he doesn’t know, talking to a person he doesn’t know, and asking questions that he doesn’t know stresses him out. This is the
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