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Wednesday Web Walk

Each Wednesday, we do our best to bring you a “Web Walk.” Yep! We keep our eyes scouring the web for blogs outside of Heart of the Matter…blogs that are like-minded. We pick articles that we know will encourage,...

Faith and Fantasy Part 2

C.S. Lewis, in his last novel Till We Have Faces, re-tells a classic Greek myth. The story contains elements of the fantastic, and yes, he brings his characters through many difficult trials. They don’t always make the right...

Debbie Strayer – Safety from the Tidal Wave of Overachievement

As I’ve been going through all the articles, emails and notes I have from Debbie. The article linked below is one of my favorites. Whenever I would have the privilege of spending time with Debbie, this topic and...

This Week At Heart Of The Matter

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and take some time to catch up on these amazing articles from this week at Heart of the Matter! SQUILT: Amazing Resource and Give Away for Teaching Music and Music Appreciation at Home How To Use...

Encouraging and Discovering Your Children’s Interests

As parents we all want our children to be interested in and curious about the world around them. Some children develop deep and abiding interests early in life and others seem to never get beyond mildly interested in any one...

Wednesday Web Walk

Faith and Fantasy Part 1

Myth. Fairy tale. Fantasy. These words may bring a wary feeling into the minds of Christian parents, especially parents of preteens and teenagers. There’s a good reason for that. Today’s society has made the fantasy genre a...

Dandelions and the Gospel

My husband and I were walking around our yard the other day. It’s a neat yard – not a lot of ‘yard’ to it, but it has areas where the children can play, a little area for a garden and a hill covered with...

Organizing e-Books

For starters, organizing your e-books and other downloads is somewhat like organizing your computer files: set up broad categories for the types of sites you usually want to return to. For instance, my categories run along the...

How To Use Conferences

Can I confess something? Until 2012, I had not been to a homeschooling conference that required me to put on something other than pajamas in years. In a homeschooling community that thrives on conferences and gatherings in...