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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: Mindsight by Daniel Siegel

There’s something exciting and hopeful in the subtitle of Siegel’s book Mindsight:  The New Science of Personal Transformation.  Who doesn’t feel the need to be transformed?  (And yes, as a Christian, I believe true transformation is a gift from God, and will discuss that later.) Rather than the old forms of psychology in which a […]

Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Is it right and good to focus on one’s own happiness?  Or is it supremely selfish?  That’s what Gretchen Rubin wondered off and on during the year she spent on The Happiness Project.   And that is what I, a Christian, wondered when I picked up the book. For two reasons she decided that yes, such […]

Homeschool Review: EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey

As a homeschooling mother of teens, I was looking for a practical, insightful book about business. I wanted my teens to have at least some exposure to the business world and all it entails, and I wanted them to learn from a Christian. Well, I couldn’t have found a better book for all this than […]

Review: Married Mom, Solo Parent by Carla Anne Coroy

Millions of married women raise their children alone because their husbands are not available.  Whether the cause of the husband’s absence is business, the military, ministry, study, illness, or hobbies, the effect is the same:  a lonely wife and mother who faces a life more challenging than she had ever imagined. Married Mom, Solo Parent:  Finding […]