older teens and adults
For our college age young people, and also for ourselves as homeschooling moms. (I used to tag this as ‘adult’ but my hubby told me that had the wrong connotation.)
Review: Reading with Purpose by Nancy Wilson
Would you encourage your teen to hang out, unsupervised, with some of the most charming, persuasive, and articulate non-Christians in the world? That is what’s happening when they read literature without guidance. Obviously, this can have devastating effects. So, what is a Christian homeschooling parent to do? We must understand both the ideas and the […]
Review: Grammarly for Homeschoolers and Bloggers
Marking my teens’ writing—after helping them improve it—is exhausting. It involves evaluating their content, editing, proofreading, correcting, encouraging, and, finally, evaluating and grading. Sometimes this whole process is too much for me. And sometimes I want to pull in an outside authority who is not emotionally involved with my teens. I love blogging, reviewing, and […]
Review: The Sparrow Found a House by Jason McIntire
It’s not often that practical Christian lifestyle ideas are successfully presented in a novel, but Jason McIntire makes it work in The Sparrow Found a House: a story of family transformation. From the back cover: What if your new stepdad was a Bible-toting Army Sergeant? Fifiteen-year-old Jessie Rivera is living every teenager’s nightmare. Her widowed […]