Parenting & Homeschooling

  Your children are your children. That sounds obvious, but sometimes it seems that the government assumes that your children are their children. And they want to decide just about everything concerning them. But you, not the government nor anyone else, have the obligation to decide what is best for your children – hopefully under

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105) In this world where good is called evil and evil is called good, we and our children desperately need to renew our minds with the Word of God. Lies come at us and our children – subtly and not

Homeschooling parents often worry about missing something in their children’s education. Here is a truth that should speak into that concern: It’s never too late to learn something. While it might be too early to learn something – a child might not be developmentally ready – there is no “magical time” to learn things –

In my last post I wrote about how setting a good tone in our homes (and homeschooling) is so important – we need to work on our attitude, projecting positivity. It helps if you schedule some things every day that your children enjoy. To some children, everything is enjoyable, but to most children, at least

Here we are – another year of homeschooling, or maybe for some of you: the first! What are some ingredients to make it successful? I assume that you are doing this of your own free will, that you are not being forced to homeschool – that you are doing this for a reason or for

Those of us who were homeschooling in the 2019-20 school year were going along as usual, when COVID-19 came upon us in March. Unlike those whose children were in school, we continued as we were, teaching our children. On that level, the pandemic didn’t affect us as much as non-homeschoolers. But even for us things

I have discovered a sort of Law, not a law that someone made up, but a “this is how things work” sort of thing -such as “the law of gravity.” It’s not a rule, although I call it “Robin’s Rule” for alliteration – it’s just something I discovered. It could be called “The Law of

Each of our children are different, with their own personalities, gifts and challenges. It is so important to let that sink in. It is so important not to compare them to their siblings, their friends, or even to yourself. One of our children was not very academic – she found some subjects challenging, but it

As homeschooling parents, there are many important things we want to teach our children: reading, writing, and arithmetic for starters. But there is an extremely important lesson that we want to make sure our children learn, and learn well! And that is: if we are going to be God-followers, we are going to be different.