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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year. I love fall: the smells, the colors, the warmth. I love it that it gets darker earlier, so that we get lots and lots of family time together. Inside. Drinking hot cocoa and tea. Reading together, playing games, and watching movies. All of it is…
One of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. I’m one of those people who strive to keep Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December, because I want to use November as much as I can as a time to remind myself to give thanks and be grateful to God for all He is and has done…
I grew up learning about character qualities, and I feel that this emphasis on character really helped to shape me into the person I am today. That is why I got together with my sister (a veteran homeschool mom) to put together a new series of studies on character. I have to give credit where…
Our family has never celebrated Halloween. My husband and I have been very careful to share with our children the origins of Halloween and the dangers of minimizing the seriousness of sorcery, the occult, and all of the evil these bring to our culture. Instead, on October 31, we remember another great day in History:…
One of our favorite times of year as a family is fall. The heat of summer is over, the mosquitoes aren’t biting any longer, and the beauty and smells remind us of hot chocolate, warm fires, and read-alouds in the evenings. We love fall in our home! As a family, we don’t celebrate Halloween. Instead,…
Did you know that Halloween lands on the same day as the little-known, largely uncelebrated Christian holiday, Reformation Day? Yes, October 31st is the very day we celebrate Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Chapel! You may be one of the many families out there trying hard to think…
My parents began homeschooling in the early 1980s, when few people had even heard of homeschooling. In fact, homeschool was such a new idea back then that my dad lobbied for legal homeschooling in the State of Washington. We have probably heard every common homeschool myth, and a few that are uncommon. I am an advocate…
People in general don’t think very much about how reading affects the way mankind lives. It touches almost every part of our existence. Read this post: 4 Powerful Tools to Teach Your Dyslexic Child to Read Parents who have a child who struggles to read simple sentences on their own have to spend copious amounts…
Does your child struggle with reading? Do you find they have trouble following words on the page or deciphering what they read? Perhaps you’ve suspected that he or she is dyslexic or they’ve recently been diagnosed. The powerful tools shared below have been used by homeschooling moms to help dyslexic children move from trouble readers…
If you’re like me, you’ve found yourself trying to defend your decision to homeschool. Every little advancement Every good grade Every cool field trip They all get hung up like badges to prove that our decision to homeschool was the right decision. I know, because I’ve often found myself doing this with my friends. It…
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