Well, yesterday marked our first official day of the new homeschool year. And, if I do say so myself, it was a complete success. We were able to stay mostly within the guidelines of our family schedule, only making minor changes to accommodate for a sleeping baby and later an unintentional sleeping toddler. The day [...]
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First Day of the New Homeschool Year
Posted 23 August 2011 by adminTagged As: children, Homeschooling, parenting | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Parenting, Products | Leave a Comment
Giving My All
Posted 10 June 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, homeschool | Categories: Children, Faith, Homeschooling, Parenting | Leave a Comment
As we’re nearing the last stretch of our homeschooling year, I’m already planning out what we’ll be doing in the fall. And as I sat at my kitchen table pondering which language we should study first, which keyboarding curriculum will be the best, and which Bible study will provide the most nourishment to these little [...]
Teacher Not Hall Monitor
Posted 25 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
Sometimes, as parents, it’s easy to forget that our role should resemble that of teacher more than that of hall monitor. I find there are days that I seem to spout off rules left and right with the words seeming to float into oblivion without being heard or understood by the little ears they were [...]
When Your Kids Won’t Eat Dinner
Posted 9 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
My kids have never been really good eaters. In fact, it used to be a major struggle getting them to eat dinner. So, what I’m about to write is coming from someone who knows what it’s like to fight with your kids and not from someone who’s just always had it easy at mealtime and [...]
The Fatherless
Posted 8 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, home, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Parenting | 2 Comments
Adoption and foster care have been on my mind a lot over the past week. My husband and I have always said that these are things that we want to do later in life after we’ve finished having our own biological children. Foster care is what really pulls at the strings of my heart and [...]
Great Patience and Careful Instruction
Posted 4 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Homemaking, Parenting | 2 Comments
A few years ago I was reading my Bible and I came across 2 Timothy 4. I know I had read this passage before, but reading it again as a mom shed a whole new light on what it meant to me personally. It soon became a passage of Scripture that I based my mothering [...]
Stop the Whining!
Posted 1 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
// I sometimes wonder if my almost 3-year old daughter is capable of going more than 15 minutes without whining. The incessant, high-pitched words that are drawn out to be twice the length they’re meant to be is enough to send chills up and down my spine. Since I have a tendency to whine, I’m [...]
His Mercies Are New Every Morning
Posted 27 January 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith | Categories: Children, Faith, Parenting | Leave a Comment
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” – Lamentations 3:22-23 Some nights I crawl into bed convinced I must have used up all of God’s mercy that day. Sometimes my role as wife and mother can test my patience to the [...]
Chores For Kids
Posted 22 January 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Things I Love, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
I’ve always tried to instill in my children a sense of independence. I hold to the belief that if a child is physically capable of doing something then let them do it. And sometimes the child won’t WANT to do what they’re capable of so then sometimes I advocate forcing them to do things they’re [...]
Why I Never Have (and never will) Use the “1…2…3″ Method
Posted 21 January 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children | Categories: Children, Parenting | Leave a Comment
“You have until the count of 3 to do as you’re told! 1…2…” If you haven’t said it yourself, you’ve certainly heard this threat from other parents. I often wonder if the parents who use this method understand just what it is they’re communicating about obedience to their children. I’m not sure about you, but I [...]
