If you have ever met an adult or a teenager with an entitlement mentality, you know it is not a pleasant thing. None of us wants our child to become someone who believes the world owes them one and everyone else exists to serve them. As we approach Thanksgiving week, …
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 …
If you are a parent, you have likely heard the warnings put out by the news media and the medical community: Childhood obesity is on the rise. This is the first generation of children who will have shorter life spans than their parents. Children are now suffering from obesity-related conditions …
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 …
Overwhelmed. That may be how you are feeling since we’ve talked for nearly 31 days about blending all the different areas of your life. Your life may even have a whole lot more categories than just Work, School and Home. I think we have all been there at one time …
During this 31 Days of writing, I have focused each Sunday post on Sabbath rest, the culmination of all of our “blending”. If you haven’t read the first posts, I suggest that you read them before you read the last post today: Why You Should Turn Off the Blender …
The subject of moms finding “me time” is a slippery slope. While the discussion has its merits, it can lead to some dangerous conclusions. Almost everyone agrees that a woman that runs from dawn until midnight from one task to another without taking time for a shower or a …
I am very blessed to have Christian parents who took the responsibility of parenting me and my siblings very seriously. Now that I am in the thick of parenting my own children, I try to look at them and other successful parents and follow their example. To say that …
Some moms allow a messy room but would never allow messy eating at the table. Others might be strict about children cleaning up after themselves but a little lax in clearing up an argument. There are as many variations on family rules as there are families. Since I became …
The first week of October I focused generally on blending the areas of our lives, and the second week I focused on homeschooling. Last week, I focused on working from home. This week’s posts will deal with family life in general and how to keep marriage and children a priority …
