Help for Planning Field Trips Quickly and Effectively

Last month at the GHEA homeschooling convention, I was delighted to meet Michele Zavatsky. Along with her husband George, they are the family-loving authors of the Kids Love Travel Guides. They were both blessed to grow up in families that love to travel. For over a decade, they have been passing on that love to other families...

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Ten Timeless Tips for Tackling a Homeschool Convention

One of the biggest mistakes I made at my first homeschool convention was heading into a football field sized room full of used books for sale without a plan. Can you feel where I am headed? Can you guess what horrible mistake I made? Photo Credit: Darcy LWM3B Fortunately, I did have a spending cash limit but the sad thing was I...

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Reflections on a Mother’s Life Well Lived

From the moment I received the sad news that she had passed, I knew in my heart that I was not going to miss the 94 year old lady’s funeral. More importantly, it was imperative to me that I take my boys to what I considered was going to be a very important funeral. One day when our body is laid to rest it will not be what...

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Surviving the Mommy Meltdown

Mommy Meltdown: aka tightening of the chest, slowness of breath, a lack of desire to tackle the world, extreme hyper focus on the unaccomplished and uncontrollable things in life, an overwhelming urge to jump on the nearest plane and escape reality as you currently know it. You know you are about to have a mommy meltdown...

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A Marriage Without Leaves

I can’t look at this picture without it evoking a strong desire for my fingers to start typing away. There is a part of me that would love to tell you our incredible love story and then there is another part of me that wants to be completely honest and tell you about the gut wrenching hard times we have come through....

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The Perfect Gift for Imperfect Families

Have you ever looked at another family and easily recognized things that inspired you and made you wish your family could be like that?  I am not talking about material things, but the things that money can’t buy.  Sometimes instead of being encouraged by their life it does more to discourage you.  Maybe you aren’t able...

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How to Encourage the Gift in Your Child This Christmas

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...

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How Questions Empower Our Teaching

 How Questions Can Empower Our Teaching All of us know how to ask our kids questions like, “Did you clean your room?” Or “Did you finish your homework?” But do we know how to ask the kind of questions that encourage our kids to think and take us straight to their heart? I love reading books on the subject of teaching....

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