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No More Trophy Children!

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 by TOSBlog

Can we please get one thing right in the new year? Can we agree to no longer have trophy children but just to simply love and cherish our children as they are? Too often homeschoolers feel the need to justify all they, and their children, have done—in order to try to prove to the

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Hey Mama Monday: God Loves You More Than You Can Even Imagine

Monday, 29 January 2018 by TOSBlog

Hey Mama, It’s kind of interesting to me how when you go to Ephesians chapter 3 and read through the text, you find a strong message about Christ’s love for us. I mean, the writer, Paul, is trying to give us even a mere glimpse of that deep love that cannot even be fully

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Helping Our Children Depend on Christ

Saturday, 27 January 2018 by TOSBlog

One reason I love physical books is the turning of the page. Don’t get me wrong—I use a Kindle often, but no matter how engaged I am in my e-books, there’s nothing like the crinkle of another page turn. And in that short moment, I go from the bottom of one page to the

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Achievement Testing Dilemma

Friday, 26 January 2018 by TOSBlog

Several times a year, I watch as students pore over SAT and ACT prep books and attend prep classes; and moms and dads, feeling their student’s college career is at stake, stress out or stress their children out as test time approaches. Are these tests really necessary? Are they really an indicator of college

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