Informative Reviews for Homeschooling Moms…and a slice of our life as well
Last month, I wrote about Portraits of Integrity, Volume 1 by Marilyn Boyer. You can read that post here to find out more about the Boyers and the Portraits of Integrity series. Now Portraits of Integrity, Volume 2 is on sale for $1.99 from today until Friday at midnight. Because I found out about the [...]
Two years ago, a local homeschooling family gave everyone attending our conference a gift of CD’s and DVD’s. This year they did it again. When a family is so convicted about their message that they put together 200 resource packages to hand out for free, no strings attached, at their local homeschooling conference, their message [...]
Homeschooling moms, like other people, are all unique. Sometimes ‘experts’ forget this and push their own method of homeschooling, organizing the home, or scheduling, forgetting that it won’t work for everyone even though it works for them. And, hey, it’s not only the experts who do this. Now, as Christians, we all agree on [...]
Lee Binz is offering Delight Directed Learning, one of her Coffee Break Kindle ebooks, for free today, in exchange for your review on Amazon. I always like what Lee has to say about homeschooling. Although I haven’t read this ebook yet, I feel safe in recommending it. Here’s what she says about her book: It’s a [...]
We try to teach our children character by example, by teaching, and by encouragement. Marilyn Boyer, pioneering homeschool mom of 14, has another very good approach: stories. In Portraits of Integrity (Volume 1) Marilyn tells 17 “stories of real people from history who, in the course of their lives, have been placed in situations where [...]
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 [...]
This weekend we celebrated Christ’s death and resurrection for our sins. It’s a good reminder to ask ourselves: how can we live in thankfulness to our Savior? One aspect of this is that we understand what we are called to do and make careful plans to do these things. Of course, we all have our [...]
Choosing the right curriculum is important. It sets the tone, the goals, and the daily activities of your homeschool. If you chose something that does not suit your child, yourself, your family circumstances, or your beliefs, you are only causing yourself grief. In fact, I firmly believe that the curriculum you choose can make or [...]
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