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 [...]
Recently I was mailed a free issue of Chatelaine, a mainline Canadian women’s magazine. Rather than immediately throwing it out, I paged through it and discovered, once again, why I don’t read such magazines. Besides the general silliness, ungodly attitudes, and shallowness, I found the stupidest advice I’d ever read. Here’s Chatelaine’s advice to a [...]
On Thursday, well over 20,000 people of all ages filled Parliament Hill in Ottawa to march in support of life and to protest female gendercide which occurs in Canada as well as throughout the world. As homeschoolers, we are privileged to make political activity part of our learning. Our children are part of the protest [...]
An International Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Syrian Church will be held on Saturday, May 11th, 2013. Syrian churches from all denominations will be unified in seeking God for mercy on their country. They are asking Christians worldwide to join them by praying for divine protection of the Church in Syria. In a [...]
Because I grew up with pictures of the Dutch royal family on our kitchen calendars, I have always felt a special affinity to dimpled Queen Beatrix and her boys, only slightly younger than me. While proud to be Canadian, my parents did not ignore their Dutch background. No touristy trappings for us, though, but rather [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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