Grace and the Homeschool
Monday, 30 April 2012
[section] [iquote cite=”2 Corinthians 12:9″]And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.[/iquote] I’ve noticed a series of stages in the life of homeschool moms. The
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Freedom to Grow in an Environment of Grace
Monday, 30 April 2012
If it were not for my adventurous imagination, school would have been like solitary confinement in a maximum security prison. In elementary school my high grades reflected only my ability to memorize facts; my level of reasoning and comprehension remained below average. In high school, where a higher level of reasoning was required, my grades
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Finding Rest
Monday, 30 April 2012
By Marla Nowak At twelve months my little fellow with Down syndrome put a donut in the VCR. This was a foreshadowing of things to come. Whatever curiosity gene possessed my boy to experiment at age 1 has followed him to age 13. Today’s summertime lazy morning had me feeling good with a song
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Encouraging Single-Parent Home Educators
Monday, 30 April 2012
The face of homeschooling is changing. As long-term benefits of homeschooling are visible and documented, more people are pursuing this educational choice. No longer is there one common picture of a “typical” homeschooling family. Grandparents home educate today And the number of single parents who homeschool is increasing. Does that surprise you? Do you wonder
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Dealing with "Negative Nellie"
Monday, 30 April 2012
Dealing with negative family members is kind of a given when you homeschool. I mean, who doesn’t have an “Aunt Nellie,” who, at every Christmas gathering, asks, “So how much longer are you going to homeschool? You certainly aren’t going to do it in high school , are you?” Now you could pray that God
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Climbing Mt. Homeschooling
Monday, 30 April 2012
I was discouraged about the progress of our homeschooling recently. I dumped my tale of woe to my dear husband (over a Starbucks, of course.). “Nothing seems to be going as planned,” I lamented. “How did I ever think I could teach one child how to figure out the area of a circle, while training
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The Bible as the Main Textbook
Monday, 30 April 2012
Quotations that come to mind first are not from homeschoolers, but, instead, are ones that I would like to direct to homeschoolers, especially Christian homeschoolers who believe the Bible is the main textbook on which to raise children. Northrop Frye, a famous literature professor in Toronto wrote that the Bible . . . .
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Unschooling
Monday, 30 April 2012
Unschooling is a word that typically generates interest with the media. For people who question whether parents are even able to educate their own children, unschooling seems totally unacceptable. With or without the approval of the general public, though, unschooling continues to grow. To understand unschooling, you really have to look back at the history
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