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Our Favorite Things: Young Peacemakers
Purchase Young Peacemakers About this product Peacemakers is a practical, step by step guide for children to handling conflict, seeking reconciliation and asking and receiving forgiveness. If you're looking for something to encourage healthy family...
Perspectives from the Porch on Life and Homeschooling
Have you ever considered the idea that some of our favorite places and pastimes can give us insight into life and priorities? My in-laws house sits on 25 acres next to a river in rural North Dakota. The property is full of places to play and relax – swimming...
10 Gifts of Routine
As the carefree days of summer fade into the demands of another school year, I’m tempted to view the needed return to routine as an imposition. I readily focus on the sacrifice required to maintain routine without remembering the many gifts that it delivers. If...
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Getting Started
Ignite the Joy of Learning in Your Children
I started out homeschooling with the idea that we were going to be doing school like they did it in the public school, but we’d be doing it at home. I bought the little desks for the kids to sit in; they were made of metal and wood (bought used from the school), and...
Understanding How Your Child Learns, Part 2
In part 1 of this series I shared about Learning Modalities, which refers to the sensory method that a person prefers to use for taking in information when learning. Just to recap, visual learners prefer to be able to see what they are learning, and auditory learners...
Understanding How Your Child Learns, Part 1
As a parent, you probably have realized that even if children are raised in the same environment, they can still be totally different in the way they approach life – each child is unique in the way they think and act. Even identical twins often have completely...
General Homeschooling
Finding Joy in Your Homeschool Journey
The holidays are done, and the new year stretches before us. It’s time to begin a new semester of school…and I’m guessing that some of you may not be feeling very excited about getting back into a school schedule again. Maybe you feel a bit overwhelmed with the idea...
50 Great Games to Use for Learning
50 Great Games to Use For Learning! This is the fourth and final post in a series on using games for learning. The first three posts were on the benefits of using games, and then great games to use for teaching language arts and math: 12 Amazing Benefits of...
Tips for Choosing Curriculum to Fit Your Family
For many families, school is done for this year and the summer is in full-force. It feels so good to wrap up a school year, doesn't it? And I love the summer months, such a great time to enjoy the outdoors and family time. It’s also the perfect time to do some...
Fun Games to Teach and Strengthen Math Skills
I love springtime and the culmination of another school year. It’s one of my favorite times of the year! It’s a time of finishing curriculum, feeling a sense of accomplishment plus anticipation for a fun summer ahead! Unfortunately, along with the fun of summer...
Fun Educational Games for Learning Language Arts
I've always known playing games made learning so much more fun for our children. However, as I wrote my last post on the benefits of using games for teaching, I was excited to find studies and information that confirmed what I knew experientially: playing games...
Help! I’m Homeschooling a Tween!
I remember a time back when one of our sons was around age 11-12, when he would spend his usual hour working on math, but would only finish 2-3 problems because he was daydreaming so much. He just couldn’t seem to stay focused! Then when our daughter was around that...
10 Tips for a Great Start to Your School Year:
This is such an exciting time of year! All those new school books have arrived in the mail, and you’re thinking through how to use them. (Okay, so it's also a little overwhelming, I know...) But even the kids are starting to look forward to starting homeschooling...
5 Ways to Develop Respect in Your Children
“Respect means honoring other people and treating them with care and courtesy. While respect includes good manners, the core of the behavior goes deeper than politeness. It stems from the belief that other people have as much worth and dignity as you, and that harming...
5 Ways to Develop Honesty in Your Children
With summer already in full-swing, it’s time to go back to our series on Character-building! Summer is a great time to focus on helping our children build godly character because many homeschoolers are not as busy also trying to fit in the many academic studies we...
Planning & Organizing
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Encouragement
10 Ways to Avoid the “Supermom” Syndrome
Do you feel ever feel overwhelmed with all the responsibilities you have in a given day?Are there just not enough hours in the day to get everything done? Do you fall into bed exhausted and wake up feeling like you just need another hour of sleep? I think most moms...
Homeschool Teaching Tips Part 2!
Happy Easter! I pray God will remind you afresh about the amazing miracle of His love and His salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this weekend. We are so blessed to serve a God who loves us so much that He provided a way for our relationship...
Homeschool Teaching Tips
There are so many tips for homeschooling, really too many to share in one post! I'll share some of the more important ones here, plus tips for teaching children in the younger years. Stay tuned for another post on teaching tips for older students soon! TEACHING...
Encouragement for the Burned Out Homeschool Mom
Burnout is defined as feeling depressed, exhausted, and exasperated, basically being worn out, even ready to give up. Burnout is a fairly common problem among homeschoolers at some point in their homeschool journey, so if you're feeling a little bit this way, don't...
8 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Alive and Well in the Homeschool Years
When I learned a friend was going through a divorce, my heart broke. Sadly, I've seen several Christian marriages fall apart over the years. Even homeschool couples drift apart in the busyness of parenting and life. God opened my eyes to this problem several...
Beating the Homeschool Winter Doldrums!
I don’t know what it is about January and February, but I suspect it has to do with the long vacation over the holidays, and maybe the cold weather and the trapped feeling from being indoors more. School feels like such a chore, and life is not quite as “joyful” at...
Faith Development
5 Ways to Develop Honesty in Your Children
With summer already in full-swing, it’s time to go back to our series on Character-building! Summer is a great time to focus on helping our children build godly character because many homeschoolers are not as busy also trying to fit in the many academic studies we...
Resources and Ideas for Building Your Child’s’ Faith
As I said in my last post, “Motherhood: A Blessed Calling,” we as moms have an amazing opportunity to disciple and train up our children to know the Lord. As a Christian parent, you hopefully have a great desire to teach your children about Jesus, but maybe you...
Understand Your Child’s Love Language
Children have a great need to feel unconditionally loved. God created us to need love, and He sent His Son to die for our sins to show us His unconditional love. Jesus said we’re to follow His example of loving others in John 13: 34-35: 34 “A new command I give...
Purity: Restoring a Lost Virtue
Our children today are growing up in a culture where sexual promiscuity and “doing whatever feels good” are toted as the norm, and even considered acceptable by some Christians. But God calls us to live lives of purity and moral righteousness. Christianity is...
Self-Control: Building Godly Character in Your Children
(5th in a series on building godly character in your children) Our youngest son has always been curious and adventurous. As soon as he learned to open doors, he had trouble controlling his curiosity and desire to go outside. We had to install a “Jonny-lock” (named...
12 Ideas for Raising Responsible Children
(4th in a series on Building Godly Character in Our Kids) Recently I was visiting a friend, and was pleased to see her children helping her with emptying the dishwasher, cleaning up lunch and generally helping her with the chores around the house. These children were...
Obedience: Building Godly Character in Our Kids
(3rd blog post in a series on building godly character in our children) Obedience is one of the most important character qualities to help our children develop as they grow up. We want our children to be obedient to us as parents, to others in authority and...
Developing the Character Quality of Kindness in Your Kids
In my last post, I shared about the importance of building godly character in our children. Because I think character building is so important, I've been wanting to give you some hands-on activities and options to do just that! However, there are so many great...
10 Ideas for Building Godly Character in Your Kids
One of the goals we often have as parents is to raise responsible children who can function well in society. This is a great goal, and one we should have. As Christian parents, many of us also have the goal of raising children who have godly character, or...
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