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Review: Overcoming Social Anxiety by JoJo Tabares

Everyone is anxious in some social situations, and some people are anxious in all of them.  Such social anxiety has nothing to do with being homeschooled, but much to do with both personality and lack of communication skills. According to author JoJo Tabares, a communication expert who used to be painfully shy, “Shyness isn’t part of my personality, […]

Review: Youth Virtue Journal

  The Youth Virtue Journal is a slim ring-bound workbook with a huge goal: to help teens choose virtues. Working with a mentor, teens will learn how to be attentive, content, forgiving, gentle, helpful, honest, obedient, perseverant and respectful. The booklet contains a form for parental input as well. Each of the nine chapters contains […]

How to Have More Good Homeschooling Days

Last night I stayed up past 10, which was great then.  But it’s not so great today.   I was even yawning during a trip to the woodlot with my husband to get another load of firewood!  Imagine how inspiring I was during homeschool lessons.  Poor kids. Elizabeth Elliot once wrote that to get up early […]

Review: Amish Values for your Family

  The huge market for Amish stories is due, at least partly, to the solid home life they portray.  Perhaps some of you even wistfully wonder what it would be like to live the simple life.  I have wondered that, too.  However, after reading Amish Values for Your Family, I realize that much of my […]

Marriage Articles to Read before Father’s Day

Years ago, I bought the only copy of Mary Pride’s The Way Home at our local Christian bookstore.  It influenced me greatly in many ways, especially through one small sentence about Above Rubies, a Christian magazine put out by ‘editress’ Nancy Campbell. I now get each refreshing and inspiring Above Rubies issue, and it’s free. […]