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Summer School

Some homeschooling families choose to school year-round, while others follow the “summers off” schedule to which their local public school district adheres. Right now, we are taking summers off, though that may change in the future. (This is our first “official” year homeschooling.) Let me clarify...

High Hopes

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I’ve been teaching our children preschool at home for a few years now. I began planning and doing educational activities with them both since they were each about 2-1/2. This past school year, as they turned ages 3 and 5, we embarked upon a formal preschool curriculum. This coming fall, though, marks the start of our...

Motherhood is….thankless?

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You’ve heard it often. I hear it often. “Motherhood is a thankless job.” I heard it while I was still carrying our first son. With two children, I still hear it, whether from another mom or a well-meaning stranger. You know what? I don’t entirely agree. Don’t get me wrong. There are so many...

Using Open-endedness to Foster Creativity

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One of the main reasons we decided to teach our children preschool at home was so that we could foster boost and bolster their creativity. According to research I’ve come across, children are losing much of their creative potential by the time they exit kindergarten. Can it be that, with many schools now focusing on...

Waste Not

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The coming and going of the holiday season always brings the concept of gratitude back to my mind. The Christmas season is a time of intense spending, gratuitous gain, and over-the-top marketing. My views on material possessions challenge the way that most of America views them today, and our family’s ideas and beliefs...

Not Be Greatly Shaken

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When Jesus left the earth to return to His Father in heaven, He expressly told us that we would have trouble. The exact word He used in John 16:33 was the Hebrew word “thlipsis,” which in essence envelopes a whole host of unpleasant circumstances: anguish, affliction, burdens, persecution, tribulation, and being...

Mercy Me

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Training and disciplining is a part of parenthood. This is something that’s necessary, like it or not. It was hard for me to accept that training was necessary as our firstborn began crawling and trying his hand at “boyish” feats (pulling on cords and reaching out for the hot stove door), even at 10 months...