Informative Reviews for Homeschooling Moms…and a slice of our life as well
In the past few years I have repeatedly read about how our ‘objective’ decisions and opinions are often influenced by completely unexpected factors. The mind is a fascinating thing. For us homeschooling moms who spend our days trying to train our children’s minds, such research and conclusions can have practical implications. Mastermind, an analysis of […]
One disadvantage of homeschooling is that there is no competition. Our teens often have no idea where they stand in comparison to other teens, so they have no idea what they are really good at. And it turns out that Mom’s opinion about these things does not always carry that much weight. When Miss 16 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When Trevin Wax wrote Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After, he did not mean it to be a conventional novel, but rather “a narrative about two people engaging the big questions of life”. Even so, the characters are so realistic and loveable and their conversations are so compelling that […]
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