“Your daughter can’t marry him. It will never work. They are both firstborns. Everyone knows firstborns are too competitive and don’t make good marriage partners.” Such was the sage advice given to my mother after we announced our engagement. Stereotype or not, both us are competitive. We each like to …
“I never once heard my mother raise her voice.” “The first time I ate a pizza that wasn’t homemade was in college.” “Through the years, my mother never missed a day of reading her Bible.” “We never had paper plates in our home. Mama always set the table with her …
If you are a mother, remember the first time you held your very own child? You were so overjoyed and excited to finally meet the little one you had waited so long to meet! Whether he grew inside you for nine months or whether you went through the seemingly endless …
My husband and I have determined that we want to teach our children about finances God’s way from a young age. Like most people, we have made some mistakes with money. We want to keep our children from making the same mistakes if possible. With children that are still young, …
Just as the weather follows predictable seasons where I live, I have found that my homeschooling has seasons as well. While I wouldn’t call them predictable, they are constantly evolving just the same. Some of this is central to parenting in general, but our homeschool has taken many different forms …
I’ve shared a lot about our personal philosophies in this series. I hope I’ve made clear that we don’t think we have all the answers and that we don’t think that your life has to be a mirror image of ours. I’ve just shared from my heart in the …
For most of us, the classes called “electives” were a large part of our education experience. Most of us sat through a few years of a foreign language and endured the rigors of jumping jacks and running in gym class. You may have played clarinet in band or made a crooked …
We were just a couple days into our first year of homeschooling. I was beginning schoolwork with my brand-new little kindergartner and her 2-year-old brother when I received the call. In the eerie calm of delivering bad news when still not quite grasping it oneself, my mother’s voice came over …
Another one of the big issues that comes up when people find out we homeschool is….. Big Question: If a child is homeschooled, how will he be properly socialized? The word socialization brings to my mind psychologists and professors with glasses far down on their nose studying what used to be called …
Choosing one thing over another always requires sacrifices of some kind. When I chose to keep my 5-year-old daughter home instead of putting her on the school bus, I knew there would be some trade-offs. Many of them didn’t become evident until I had a few years under my belt. …
