We are the adult leaders within our family and as such we have a God-given responsibility to these young humans we teach and raise. The bible tells us we are to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Prov. 22:6 (KJV ..read more

Across the northern hemisphere, school — and homeschool — is drawing to a close for the school year. Many homeschoolers just revise their summer schedules or even go year round, though. “What! Year round?!? How do you stand it?” Have you heard that from friends or relatives? I have. I was looking at the SDA ..read more

Feeling the Blues In the last article of this series, I wish to recap the fundamentals of good mental health as I address the topic of depression. Depression is a worldwide epidemic and causes more disability than any other mental health diagnosis. Depression is a generalized term which could apply to dysthymia, cyclothymic disorder, bipolar ..read more

 As the school year is coming to an end in my home, I am looking back and taking note on which things we succeeded in and what areas need improvement. A personal area that I need to improve on is how to navigate daily as an introvert (INFJ, to be precise) homeschooler. If you’re an ..read more

Teaching, working, housework, church, community activities….just how in the world is a single parent supposed to manage any “me-time,” or to practice the important self-care? It’s impossible, many say. I tell the parents I work with that it is not an elective to have me-time, but an essential part of life. It boils down to ..read more

This is my final post in this series about using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in our home education journey. We’ve already explored the Extrovert/Introvert, Sensing/iNtuition, and Thinking/Feeling continuums. Today we will address the fourth letter in the MBTI description. The Judging/Perceiving continuum indicates a person’s response to decisions and structure — or more accurately ..read more

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart; you shall teach them diligently to your children,” Deuteronomy 6:6-7. These words clearly instruct that God’s word should be committed to memory and passed on from generation to generation. Committing portions of Scripture to memory is vital in retaining knowledge of the Scriptures. In Psalm 1 and Joshua 1:8 share ..read more

I am a second generation homeschool parent. Before I even got married, I knew that if it was at all possible, I wanted to homeschool any future children I had. Now I am raising an adorable, precocious, scarily intelligent almost-5-year-old. I work part time because we simply cannot afford to live on a single income right ..read more

One question that comes up often in my conversations with parents who have children with challenges is, “Just how do I manage to do it all? How can I manage the special diet, the special educational challenges, and still retain some type of sanity?” I’ve had people ask me how I manage do to it ..read more

This year I have been focusing on teaching math from the Bible and in many other practical ways. If you have missed any of these you can find the posts here. Throughout this process I have fallen more in love with God and with mathematics. I now look for the spiritual lesson in every math lesson that ..read more