Some books need to be read slowly so their ideas can be pondered and applied. The Passionate Mom: Dare to Parent in Today’s World by Susan Merrill, a unique parenting book that focuses on becoming a godly mom, is like that. Where can a woman find wise counsel about how to become a godly mom? […]
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Charlotte Mason, Lost and then Found
I have always loved Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. Based on a lifetime of teaching, a view that all children, whether of the nobility or not, could learn (revolutionary in those days), and a Christian faith, Charlotte Mason’s ideas work and have done so for well over a century. They are not simply an idealist’s dream […]
Review: Hot Buttons: Bullying Edition by Nicole O’ Dell
Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written a series of Hot Buttons books that I desperately wish I’d had years ago. A few days ago I reviewed Hot Buttons: Image and today I’m privileged to tell you about […]
Review: Hot Buttons: Image Edition by Nicole O’ Dell
Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written the Hot Buttons books to help parents talk to their teens about hot button issues like image and many more. How I wish I had had these books years ago! Image is an important […]
Delight-Directed Learning, Part 1: Pitfalls
Years ago I heard about Greg Harris’s idea of ‘delight directed learning’. You may know that Greg Harris is the father of Josh Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye) and Brett and Alex Harris (Do Hard Things and The Rebelution youth movement). Obviously something worked for his kids, and it just may be related to how they […]