Life is Exercise: It's ok to be tired.
You are a runner. Running requires effort and makes you tired and out of breath. That is a sign that you’re doing it, that you’re moving, not that
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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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The Simple Life.
The principle of multum non multa means choosing depth over distraction. Don't manage dozens of tasks; focus your energy on what matters most.
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What Makes a Productive Day?
So, last week felt like a rough, terrible week. However, the school checklists got done, the house hadn’t really fallen apart, and we’d had no major disasters. Really,
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Why messy homeschool days still matter
Homeschool mom encouragement for messy days full of lessons, laughter, resistance, virtue, and real learning around the kitchen table.
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Make a Digital Home Management Binder
It’s a simple fact: We need to track the details of running our households in order to maintain sanity and reliability. Our job isn’t to impress others, but
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Life is a Story: You Are in a Fairy Tale
Life is a story. It is God’s Story. Not only can these fairy-tales be enjoyed because they are moral, but morality can be enjoyed because it puts us
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Living Your Biography
Life is a story. There is the big-picture story that God is telling from beginning to end, a story where we are just bit players adding color along the
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Growing Pains
This is the first installment of what I hope to be a regular Monday feature: A Metaphor for Monday. Each Monday during our weekly meeting, I will be pep-talking
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Teaching Beginning Writing, freeform
This year I start teaching writing again. I have taught several writing classes over a scattered 5 years from 2001-2010. I started off using the old IEW teacher training
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Summer Side Dish: Flatbread Cooked on the Grill Easy Recipe
Winter has its soups served with bread and salad, and summer has its grilled meat and salad and…what? Who wants to heat up the oven for potatoes or bread?
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The Young Peacemaker review and lesson plan ideas
Review of The Young Peacemaker by Ken Sande with lesson plan ideas for Christian homeschool families teaching biblical conflict resolution.
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Classically Charlotte: The nature of children
Is Charlotte Mason classical education? Her second principle shows how children bear God’s image, need formation, and must learn self-control.
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