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Happy Birthday Karin

We would like to wish our wonderful Karin a very blessed birthday. Please stop by her blog at Mommy Matters and leave her a birthday comment. ...

Welcome to the Heart of the Matter Online meme. Every Friday we will feature a different topic for our meme. Mr. Linky is set up below so please share with us your thoughts on the following: Have any tips for tackling the after-Thanksgiving sales? We filled up on turkey, the kids bounced off the walls and I had the blessed...

Christmas at Bedtime

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Welcome to Heart of the Matter Online’s Christmas Series!! We are looking forward to bringing you a fantastic array of crafts, projects, and activities everyday from now until Christmas Eve. Our hope is that you may use some of these to strengthen family ties, not only with your children, but between your children and...

Black Friday at CurrClick.com

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This Friday, November 28th, put on your pajamas, put away your pocketbooks and “head over” to CurrClick’s best ever Black Friday Freebie Giveaway and Homeschooling Through the Holidays Sale! Black Friday is about savings, this season is about being frugal and CurrClick is and always has been about helping you...

How to Encourage the Gift in Your Child This Christmas

Posted by Beth | 0 comments

We all love to give our children that one gift that makes them squeal with delight. As you are contemplating your children’s gift list this year, why not consider buying them something that encourages their own unique interests while also enhancing the gift that is inside them. I like to think of these gifts as things that...

Why Do I Homeschool?

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As we approach upon the new school year, that question always arises: why do I home school? Is it to give my children an excellent education, far superior to public schools? Is it so that I can shelter them from outside influences? Is it so that I can teach them at their own pace, and individualize their curriculum to suit...

Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk by David Elkind

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Published in 1987 by Dr. David Elkind, Professor of Child Study and Senior Resident Scholar at Tufts University, Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk is designed to help parents avoid the ever growing trend of the miseducation of young children . It’s findings and review of research is not only pertinent in today’s...

Enough

Posted by Suzanne | 0 comments

Around the end of summer last year we began to really feel the financial pinch we were in. We had moved into our first home, had a baby (the fourth) and bought a van we had to have in order for our entire family to go anywhere together…all in a span of 1 month. We don’t do credit cards. We had felt the conviction...

Black Friday at The Old Schoolhouse

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The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is having an amazing sale on subscriptions during their annual Black Friday Sale November 26 – 30. For those 5 days only, they are drastically reducing their one-year subscription price to $7.95! That’s the price you would usually pay for just one issue at a bookstore! This is their lowest...

Just A Wee Bit Fascinated With the Wii!

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What has the gaming industry done to my child’s education? My six-year-old is working learning to spell correctly using Sequential Spelling. Last week we were working on words that contain double E’s. He was doing great until we arrived at the word “wee”. The sentence was “The wee little lad has an eye for wee little...