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Homeschooling with Confidence

Wednesday, 02 March 2016 by Dawn Winters

I don’t know about you, but I have found confidence to be a rather fickle creature; especially when it comes to homeschooling. Although I knew that pulling my kids out of “Brick and Mortar” five years ago and schooling them at home was something that I needed to do, the things that people would say

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March Blog Giveaway Basket

Tuesday, 01 March 2016 by Dawn Winters

Puertas Abiertas Kit (DVD): Level 1 Learn Spanish through this natural approach to language learning, focusing on visual and aural input instead of traditional grammar-based methods. Puertas Abiertas offers children and adults a fun and productive way to begin communicating in Spanish. Kit includes a Student Workbook, a Facilitator’s Guide, five DVDs (over six hours

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Bible Memorization For Little Hearts

Monday, 29 February 2016 by TOSBlog

No Christian homeschool can afford to journey far without Bible memorization. As a homeschooled young woman, I’m so grateful my parents taught my siblings and me how to store God’s word in our hearts early. The Scriptures themselves teach nursing babies should already be hearing the Word (Isaiah 28:9) and that through it a child

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The Gray Hair of Glory

Monday, 29 February 2016 by TOSBlog

If you’ve got gray hair, any at all, you’ve earned it. Parenting is one of the—if not the—toughest job on the planet. For eighteen years, in most cases, we cry and laugh with our kids. We try to teach them right from wrong. Sometimes that sinks in; sometimes it doesn’t. Eventually they leave to