Personality Matters: Understanding MBTI Typing
Learn how understanding personality can reduce conflict, improve homeschool life, and help moms respond with grace.
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Mystie Winckler
Mystie, homeschooling mom of 5, shares the life lessons she's learned and the grace she's received from Christ. She is author of Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
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Principles Are Practical, a video conversation
What is a principle? Principle noun 1. A basic truth, law, or assumption 2. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior: a man of principle. 3. A fixed or
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Audio books and how we experience stories.
It’s no secret that I love and make use of audio books. As someone who cannot do voices, who can’t read ahead silently while speaking the words that
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Daily faithfulness over measurable results
One more post about Michael Horton’s Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World if you’ll humor me. I think this is a book any mom deep in
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An easy recipe for a hot, filling breakfast: Oven Puffed Pancakes
The quest for a simple breakfast that is filling enough to keep the kids satisfied until lunch is an endless one. Oatmeal is a good stick-to-the-ribs breakfast,
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Why study Latin in classical homeschooling?
Why study Latin in classical homeschooling? A thoughtful look at Latin, classical texts, memory, grammar, and long-term educational recovery.
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How I Use My Commonplace Journal
A commonplace journal is not complicated and doesn’t need to be fancy. It is simply a place where notes and quotes from our reading are kept. The simpler we
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Why break weeks aren't wasted weeks
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Last week was a break week in our year-round homeschool schedule, and it was great! It is so easy to slip
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Outsourcing dinner duties
When I was 11, my mom had twins. Already interested in cooking, I eagerly took once-a-week dinner duties. I could make spaghetti, macaroni and cheese (from boxes) with
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What are the liberal arts?
I am almost done reading The Liberal Arts Tradition, but I know I have at least two more posts in me for this one. I feel like I understand the
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How to Keep Digital Homeschooling Notes
A simple guide to using a digital notes app for homeschool planning, book lists, and long-term reference.
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Why You Want to Give Up Homeschooling
It’s February. Like clockwork homeschool moms hit burn out mode this time of year. Yes, it might be cloudy skies, lack of sleep, or holiday sugar-binges catching up
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