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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.)

Wordless Wednesday: My Favorite Movie

   

Review: Snow on the Tulips by Liz Tolsma

Near the end of World War 2, in the far north of Holland, a group of resistance workers is marched through the cold to the edge of the canal where they are shot.  One of them, Gerrit, survives, escapes, and becomes a central character in this gripping and realistic story of life under the Nazis. […]

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 […]