A few years ago, my husband and I tried to find a hobby that we enjoyed doing together. You’ve probably tried this too. Our children were getting older, old enough to leave home for an hour or so, and we wanted to find something that we liked doing together. One of our parenting goals is […]
Last month marked the passing of Ravi Zacharias, a great teacher and apologist. His was the first book of substance I read willingly as a young adult, skeptical of digging deeper than complacency in the Christian faith. If you are unfamiliar with Ravi, his mission can be accurately summed up in his organization’s motto: “Helping
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Without diving into the history of curriculum changes, I’d like to address the common practice of searching for a new curriculum. Humans are cyclical. We have patterns that we follow and often homeschool parents follow the same patterns. When our child struggles to grasp the difficult concepts in algebra and higher-level math, we start searching
Everything we learn goes through a process. First, we take in information. Second, we calculate information. Third, we output information. Like most things in life, there are better ways to do all three of these steps. Let’s explore a particular example to see what I mean: Communication – learning to communicate with other people is
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These past few months have brought a lot of change. Our school has been disrupted and our plans have been thrown out the window. As difficult as all of this has been, it has challenged us in both the good and the bad. Maybe we have slowed down and spent quality time with our children.
