Recently, during an exceedingly difficult afternoon, a stranger kindly asked me if I needed anything. A glass of water, perhaps? I hadn’t realized I was thirsty, but he had. He saw the need for water—and the need for encouragement—and provided both. Just a simple glass of water. Just an encouraging, compassionate smile. But it added […]
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Review: Smart but Scattered Teens by Guare, Dawson, and Guare
Perhaps you have one of them, a teen who is bright but just can’t seem to get things together. Sometimes I suspect most of us, parents and teens, are scattered in one way or another. But some struggle in a deeper way with executive skills, ‘the functions of our brains and thought processes that help […]
Sex Education with Jonathan McKee
We Christian homeschoolers can teach our kids almost anything, and we do. The one thing we have issues with, however, is sex education and that is because, as Christians, most of us are unaware of what the world out there is actually like these days. And unless you’ve seen the enemy, you don’t know what […]
Review: Total Recovery by Gary Kaplan
Chronic pain is common in our society, and so are depression, anxiety, and many autoimmune conditions. Despite all the advances of medicine, there seem to be more and more people that modern medicine is not able to cure or even make comfortable. It almost seems as though the current medical paradigm is faulty and a […]