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Mathematical Problem Solving for Teens: Past CEMC Contests

Do you want your older children to learn problem solving skills?  While most homeschooling moms do, quality problem solving resources can be difficult to find beyond the elementary level.  After all, very few math curricula spend a huge amount of time on problem solving, and not many helpful books are available. However, there is an […]

Review: Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Teens and young adults have some major decisions to make, life-altering and eternally-important decisions about faith, college, career, and marriage.  How can we encourage them to make appropriate choices?  Obviously we discuss the contents of their decisions with them; that’s part of being a parent.  However, now that the book Decisive has been published, young […]

Learning about Earthly Citizenship in the Light of our Heavenly Citizenship

  We and our children are all citizens of at least one country of the world.  As Christians we are also citizens of heaven.  Our dual citizenship leads to a number of questions: How do these two citizenships relate? What is our country’s history, and how do its laws work? What does the Bible say […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Spring, Studies, and Books

  In my life this week… Finally, finally spring is here.  The grass is green, Miss 12 brought me the first dandelion, and our forsythia is almost blooming.  We started neatening up the gardens and the flower beds and spent as much time as possible outside.   It was so warm that we only lit the […]

Input Needed: Teaching Multiple Grades and Teaching High School

  At our local homeschool conference I’m on two panels, one about teaching multiple grades and one about teaching high school.  Of course I’m nervous, since this is a new experience, but I have many pages of words typed up and could almost be ready. However, I just had a brainstorm that would hugely help the […]