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Hey Mama Monday: Kids Can Be Terrible, but Even at Their Worst You Wouldn’t Give Them Up

Monday, 13 November 2017 by TOSBlog

Hey Mama, Even on the worst day, was it all worth it? Would you change a thing? Put those kids back where they came from and never look back? In the moments of frustration and even grief (and those moments do come) with our children, when they are being so foolish and illogical .

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Stained Gratitude

Sunday, 12 November 2017 by TOSBlog

This Side of Eternity, No Blessing is Unstained I’m writing this from my neat and tidy, newly refurbished computer. Every time my kids and I sit down to record a podcast episode, we first stop and thank God for putting us in a time and place where technology like this is available to us,

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Using Guided Repeated Reading to Improve Fluency

Saturday, 11 November 2017 by TOSBlog

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I am in my fourth year of homeschooling my son and learning to read has been a slow process for him. He’s made a lot of progress recently, but the one remaining obstacle that I see is for him to achieve enough fluency to feel confident reading in public. In co-op, Sunday school, or

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Do I Really Want My Child to be Like Me?

Friday, 10 November 2017 by TOSBlog

Oscar Wilde once said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” Many of us will be familiar with the first half of this famous quote. But do we actively seek to copy greatness? Who is great enough to be worthy of imitation? Am I worthy of imitation? As

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