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Summertime Activities!
By: Heidi Jo Falk A summertime day can be filled up just running around the backyard, splashing in the pool, or laying in the grass gazing at some fluffy clouds. But even on sunny, summer days, we...
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It’s Summer, Now What?
By Dougetta Nuneviller As a homeschooling family, summers in our home,are a time of great anticipation. We take this season to explore the great outdoors. Charlotte Mason, a great school teacher...
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My Father’s World
By Dougetta Nuneviller As “This is My Fathers World” plays in the background. It reminds me of all the times I’ve taken the kids out for a nature walk. There are so many wonderful things we can learn...
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Cultivating an Overflow of Gratitude
By: Kimberly Wager My son’s eighth birthday party wasn’t the best. He had a birthday meltdown. It wasn’t pretty. There were a lot of contributing factors: too much cake and punch, high expectations....
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me, Me, ME
By: Carrie Ward “We shouldn’t have a child-centered home.” I’ve heard that phrase many times; perhaps you have, as well. I agree with the idea behind this statement, but I find that sometimes what I...
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Summertime and the Living is Easy (or Not): Our Summertime “Policies”
By: Amy Cantilina As my kids’ school year comes hurtling to a close in about a week, I am looking ahead at summer vacation with my usual sense of excitement and eagerness to do fun things together, let...
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You Can Be For Without Being Against
By Heidi Jo Falk At first glance, this statement could seem like some wishy-washy advice from someone afraid to take a stand on something. But it’s not, so let me elaborate. There are many things...
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Looking up to my dad!
By Heather Patenaude This is one of my favorite pictures from my wedding nearly 10 years ago. My dad is tall…6 feet 8 inches tall! I remember as a little girl I would always tell people, “My dad is...
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Helping a Friend in Crisis
By Shannon Popkin “Yes, but why did you call me?” I don’t always feel qualified to help my Christian friends when they call, engulfed by a hurtful situation. And I’m sure they don’t feel qualified to...
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“He’s addicted to porn!”
By: Heather Patenaude “He’s addicted to porn!” your friend cries to you “I just discovered it and he’s been hiding it for years!” What would you say? How would you help? We live in a porn-culture, and...
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Walking with a Friend through a Miscarriage
By: Heather Patenaude More than 9 years ago I experienced a miscarriage at 10 weeks with our first baby. Over the years I’ve been able to come along side many friends who deal with this type of loss. I...
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Faith-Based Parenting: Inspiring Faith
By Kimberly Wagner He’s one of the happiest little fellas I know. Always smiling. His mama says that well disciplined children are happy children. I’ve watched that with them. They are already clearly...
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School Choice: Public School AND Homeschool
The next few posts we’re going to look at school choice! We will hear from a mom who send all her kids to public school, one who homeschools her children, one who isn’t decided yet. Today we’ll hear...
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School Choice: Homeschooling
This is the second of our four part series on: School Choice. Today we’ll tackle homeschooling. Our first post was: Public School and Homeschooling. By Heather Patenaude When someone comes to me...
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School Choice: Public School (Part 1)
Last week we started a series on “School Choice”: Homeschool and Public School, Homeschool. Today and tomorrow we’re going to hear from Amy and how they chose the path of Public School! By: Amy...
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School Choice: Public School (Part 2)
Check part one of Amy’s School Choice HERE! And the school choice post on: Homeschool and public school and Homeschool. By Amy Cantilina In choosing public schooling for our children, I did, naturally,...
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School Choice: Undecided
We’ve been talking “school choice” around here! (Public and Homeschool, Homeschool, Public School Part 1, Part 2) Erin wraps up this series with her heart on being “undecided”. By: Erin Davis Here’s a...
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School Choice: Public School
At last minute Shannon decided to chime in on our school choice series! By Shannon Popkin When my daughter Lindsay was in kindergarten, we were driving home from school one day when suddenly she...
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Just For Angry Moms
By Erin Davis I’m an angry mom. That’s the confession I made several months ago on Focus on the Family. You can hear the audio of me fessing up to my mom anger here. I’m not proud of my tendency to...
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Lord, Deliver me from my Irritability
By Amy Cantilina One recent morning, the sound of my then 6-year-old virtual twin girls giggling in the back of the car on our way to our weekly occupational therapy (OT) appointment was a welcome...
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