Posts Tagged "homeschooling"
Monday Musings: Homeschooling
Here’s another topic that could fill a few pages. The short of it is that I’ve wanted to homeschool since before I was married. It didn’t take much time in the classroom during my student teaching days for me to decide that, while I enjoyed teaching in a traditional school, I did not want my kids in one. Thankfully, God hooked me up with a husband who feels the same way, and the longer we’ve been parents the more reasons we’ve amassed for why we will make some serious sacrifices to keep our children home for the majority of their education. Certain reasons are more important than others, and their importance changes up sometimes depending on...
Read MoreThursday Thoughts: Educating the Whole Hearted Child
I don’t do a lot of reviews here, as you’ve likely already noticed, but whenever I’m really wowed by something I make sure to spread the word. On Tuesday I finished going through Clay and Sally Clarkson’s Educating the WholeHearted Child again, and dang, what an inspiring, convicting, empowering, encouraging book. While it’s meant as a resource for homeschoolers, I hope you’ll stick around to read the rest of the review even if you’re not a homeschooling parent, because I honestly think every Christian parent, homeschooler or not, needs to read this book before making a final call about their children’s education. If...
Read MoreThursday Thoughts: Pass it on
Well, Abby did it. She got her sewing machine on Tuesday. Of course the first thing she did was select a new face plate, though she decided it was too plain and went to work on it with my Sharpies to add some tulips. Too cute! Wednesday she insisted I teach her how to sew. I know a little–a very little–about sewing machines and sewing in general. But I’m great at reading directions, too, so between what I already knew and the manual we were able to get the thing up and running and get her started. Truthfully, I didn’t want to spend my entire day on this. I was expecting to set her up with some scrap fabric and let her practice straight stitches,...
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