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How I Teach a Foreign Language

It is more and more accepted that foreign language learning must start as early as possible. Imagine a toddler who is learning to speak. He has to figure out the meaning of each word, he has to learn it, and then he has to utter it properly. This is also the case with foreign language learning. A child can learn many languages...

Apple Dumplings

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Each year we like to go apple picking together as a family. It’s a great time to get out into God’s beautiful world and remind the children about the harvest, to be thankful for the food we have to eat, and to explain how God created seed-bearing plants (Gen 1:29) as a way of provision for us. Apple...

My family loves apples

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My family loves apples. We like to eat them in pie and cobbler, with cheese and peanut butter, candied, coated with caramel, or baked. I frequently buy a big of apples only to discover they are gone before I have time to bake a pie. With autumn her in New England, come the apples. Cold Spring Orchard is about a half hour...

Crowing about Fall

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One of the ways to teach kids about seasons is to have them help you welcome the seasons. A great welcome for fall is to make a scarecrow. Don’t have a garden? Who says you need one? You can even have your children decorate a fake garden for the scarecrow. Scarecrows are only limited to your own imaginations. There...

Beauty Bargains

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Let’s face it. Skin care, anti-aging creams, and hair products are not cheap. Nearly everyone wants to look attractive and youthful, but not everyone has a limitless budget for beauty. Through the years I’ve hit on some inexpensive alternatives to high-priced beauty items that have not only saved me a bundle, but are just...

Housekeeping Tips and Efficiency Ideas

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Home Management: How to Turn Up Your Efficiency Level What do people need the most of besides money? Time. While we’re not all earning the same amount of money, everyone is given an equal amount of time. It’s the great equalizer–no respecter of persons. Like money, you can either waste it or save it. In caring for a...

In the Kitchen with your Kids

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Do any of you cook with your kids? I wasn’t always keen on the idea. Even when thinking about it as a class. It was hard for me to let go and slow down long enough to even allow my children to help. For me, I just wanted to get it done and over with so I could move on and do the next thing. Pretty selfish hu? I was. Life was...

Homeschooling With Toddlers

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Do you get nervous when it gets really quiet around your house? Do you have to put markers, glue and other creative art supplies up on a high shelf ? Do step stools located in unusual places around the house make you cringe? If you have answered yes to two or more of these questions, then you must have a toddler living in your...

Father’s Day: Turning 40

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By Tim Hawkins Comedian and homeschool dad It came and went. Faster than a speeding bullet. My 40th birthday. And there was nothing I could do about it. My face is changing. I have eyebrows growing in like fiber optic cable. I’m serious. “Honey, do we have any pruning shears? I’ve gotta trim these babies up.” There’s...

Scheduling Your Homeschool Day

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Is there one best way to schedule and plan out your homeschool day? I don’t think so, but I do believe we should have some kind of direction, plan and or schedule laid out for the days activities. “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through...