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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Homemaking Encouragement for Christian Moms
The Simple Life.
Multum non Multa, or Simplicity Part of the Education Is for Life Series It is true that education is a life, and it is true that Life is an education,
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Education Is for Life, a series
Christopher Perrin has begun a great free video series developing eight principles of classical education – none of which require rote parroting of bare facts. He is talking about the core
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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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The Art of Teaching: Humane Humor
The Art of Teaching is conversational in tone and quite easy and enjoyable reading so far. I have been amused by some of the generalizations made that would now be
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Homeschooling is never dull
Homeschooling is never dull. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. […] Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy:
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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 in
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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 way.
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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 my
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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 materials
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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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