Like many things, daily Bible reading is a habit — and one that your children can start very early! Here are 10 Bible reading plans for 2021.
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20 Fun Holiday Activities
It’s that time of year! Christmas joy and celebrations. Here are 20 holiday fun activities to enjoy with your family: Make a tree-shaped photo collage by including family members that can’t attend the celebration. Play Christmas charades. Make a special Christmas treat. Gather your favorite Christmas titles and put them in a basket next toContinue reading “20 Fun Holiday Activities”
How Much Sleep Do Your Children Need?
How much sleep do your children need? It might be more than you think!
Holiday Fun Activity: 20 DIY Thanksgiving Treats!
You and your kids can create pretzel turkeys or chocolate caramel turkey legs with these 20 fun DIY Thanksgiving treats!
10 Tips for Living on One Income While Homeschooling
We know first-hand that living on one income while homeschooling can be a challenge. But where there is a will there is a way! Here are our 10 tried-and-true tips for making it happen: 1. Stick to your budget. We have operated on a budget since nearly the beginning. It started before we had childrenContinue reading “10 Tips for Living on One Income While Homeschooling”
8 Ideas for Enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday
If we’re not careful, Thanksgiving can end up being an over-stressed, over-indulgent, over-chaotic holiday!
3 Disney Thanksgiving Printables {Free}
If you love Disney you’ll love these 3 free Mickey & Friends Thanksgiving printables: 1. Thanksgiving Activity Placemat Simple activities for the impatient ones waiting for food that include drawing, matching, a maze, word scramble, and word search. To make the placemat more servicable, you can place it between contact paper and use a dryContinue reading “3 Disney Thanksgiving Printables {Free}”
6 Ways to Involve Dad
For most of us, the day-to-day homeschooling routine revolves around Mom. It is Mom who plans the courses, sets up the schedules, chooses the materials, tutors the children, addresses character issues, and manages the home. It is also Mom who carries the burden of the perceived success or failure of the homeschool! Keeping Dad involvedContinue reading “6 Ways to Involve Dad”
The Ministry at Home
“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” — Joel 1:3 This is our first duty, we are to begin at the family hearth: he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home…. To teach our children is a personal duty;Continue reading “The Ministry at Home”
6 Time-Saving Ideas
There never seems to be enough time in a day! Want to find more? Here are 6 time-saving ideas: 1. Prioritize. Feel like you have hundreds of tasks requiring your attention each day? Most moms do. Homeschool moms tend to find themselves with an extra helping. Ever hear of of Steven Covey’s Big Rocks demonstration?Continue reading “6 Time-Saving Ideas”
20 Easy Ways to Save Money Around the Home
Most homeschool families are one-income families. In many cases the family runs a small business or Dad is self-employed. Many homeschool families watch their pennies. Here are our tried and tested top 20 easy ways to save money around the home: Make a budget. Knowing how much you have to spend (or not) tends toContinue reading “20 Easy Ways to Save Money Around the Home”
Expectations… Performance… Consequences
When we are blessed with children, they arrive as bundles of love, and with abundant hope, and rising expectations. For those of us who educate our children at home, the expectations multiply. There is pressure to perform, and fear of consequences. There is also no one else on which to shift blame if things don’tContinue reading “Expectations… Performance… Consequences”
Elisabeth Elliot on Marriage {Free eBook}
It would seem most mothers these days struggle to find a balance between the many directions in which they are pulled. Homeschool moms in particular are prone to becoming focused on our children at the expense of our spouses. This can lead to confusion, chaos, broken promises, lack of peace, criticism, self-will, dissatisfaction, pride, self-pity,Continue reading “Elisabeth Elliot on Marriage {Free eBook}”
Making an Investment in Our Children
With blessings come responsibility. As responsible stewards there are a variety of ways we can make an investment in our children.
Home-Making ~ Free eBook
What makes a home? Relationships! Relationships with each other — fulfilling our duties to one another — and our relationship with Christ. These things truly make a home. Originally written in the late 1800’s by Rev. J. R. Miller, Home-Making takes a look at what the Bible says regarding the duties of each member ofContinue reading “Home-Making ~ Free eBook”
