Parenting & Homeschooling

The world in its present state has good and evil, darkness and light, ugliness and beauty. Sometimes the beauty is before us in all its splendor – a gorgeous flower, a beautiful sunset, a loving act. Other times we need to make a concerted effort to look for it when darkness or evil is before […]

  I have homeschooled all ten of our children. The youngest has recently graduated from our homeschool and doesn’t yet know what he is going to pursue. A mentor of his was encouraging him to just apply for university, but I told him that as this mentor hasn’t been homeschooled, he doesn’t know that there

A really good time to buy curriculum is at homeschool conferences, which are typically held in the spring. If you buy curriculum at conferences, you save money by not paying shipping. Also, you can hold the item in your hands and look through it thoroughly, rather than just reading a blurb about it in a

Stories are extremely powerful – I guess that’s why Jesus often used them to teach. I loved reading stories to my children, and now, my grandchildren. These stories have become part of our family culture. Years later, our family still quotes from our favourite stories which brings me joy. Stories teach in a pain-free way.

Like all people, children can have big dreams or aspirations of what they want to do or what they want to be. As parents, how do we help them with these? First, be aware as to whether this is a passing fancy and will be gone tomorrow or next week or if this is something

Many people, including children, often beat themselves up (figuratively) for mistakes. We want to help our children learn not to do so. The first step is to examine ourselves: do we beat ourselves up for our mistakes? If we do, you can be sure our children have seen us do this. These kinds of things

I wrote a post in my “Life” blog, which is my more general blog, but I think that we parents need some more specific reminders – reminders that we should not only refrain from comparing ourselves with others, but we should not compare our spouse, our family, our children, or our homeschooling with others. Even

“…and be thankful.” This is from Colossians 3: 15, but there are many other places throughout God’s Word where we are instructed to be thankful. We are also told (in Romans 1:21) the consequences of not honouring God or giving thanks to Him. Such people become “futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were

Here are some advantages of educating your child at home: You love your child more than any other teacher, which counts for a lot. Your child is more significant to you than he/she would be to anyone else. Therefore you will take more interest in their learning. The teacher-student ratio is ideal – whether it’s

If you can read, you can homeschool your children. Therefore, I know if you are reading this, you can homeschool your children. Logic. If you can read, then even if you don’t know much about a subject, you can learn along with your child. Curriculum comes with a teacher’s guide that can lead you step