Would you rather spend 30 minutes on 1 problem or 1 minute on 30 problems? Obviously, one could argue that 1 minute for 30 problems means they aren’t problems to begin with, but the idea behind the question should be clear. What do we expect from our children? Have we focused so much on completing […]
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After living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for most of my early life, the mountains in Maine seemed more like, well, hills. For the first few years I carried around a kind of dissatisfaction; a sentiment that, try as Maine might, it will never be New Hampshire. This kind of attitude kept me
You may have seen my facebook live last week in which I spoke on three of the reasons that we homeschool. These three things keep us going on the hard days: 1. Freedom : to learn, study, travel, build, play, discover, experience, and worship God. We do most of these things by encountering God
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Depending on where you live, the new school year has started, or it’s about to start. Are you ready? It’s okay if you aren’t. To prepare for this upcoming school year, we want to remind you of a few truths: you can’t do everything, and (spoiler alert) you shouldn’t. Especially if you have older children.
The Latin word from whence we get “discipline”, literally means “instruction, knowledge.” So the lack, then, of discipline, must imply a lack of knowledge. This comes as a hard blow to someone like myself, who tends to think of a vice, such as procrastination, a mere employee to be taken in hand. I confess I
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