Category: Parenting
Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father's Day to my Love, Chad! Didn't think I could love you more until I saw how you loved our babes! Thank you for your endless hard work, for your leadership and your constant encouragement of each of us pursuing our dreams and callings. Thank you for always striving to love us just like [...]
A Mother’s Influence
When I read Proverbs 31, I don't often read the very first verse that says that these words recorded by King Lemuel were actually the things that his own mother taught him. The wisdom of searching and waiting for an exceptional woman to become his bride and mother of his future children. Just how many [...]
Parenting Book Review: Fit For The Master’s Use by Nancy Dufresne
This current homeschool year I created an electives course for my children called Marriage and Family. My children are a senior and sophomore and I knew it would be important to take an entire year to go slowly through God's plan for them for their future families and we've read great books that I've hand-selected [...]
Homeschooling Is Not About Academics, It’s About Discipleship
Homeschooling, to me, is not about academics, but about discipleship. My main goal in homeschooling my children has never been to produce college students. I do not believe in “teaching for the test” or in the meticulous “clocking of hours” of study. That would be just doing public school at home. Are there certain requirements [...]
Can Kids “Be Anything They Want to Be”?
As parents, we need to be careful not to fall into the common trap of encouraging our children that they can "be anything they want or do anything they want" when they grow up. While it sounds nice to say that, it's simply not true. They will be anointed to do what God has called [...]
Surround Others With Faith & Love
God did not call us to figure people out or change them. He only called us to WALK IN LOVE toward them. Faith works by LOVE! It's not worth it to compromise your faith walk and prayer life by stepping out of love. When our children were young, their biggest pet peeve with one another [...]
Cultivating Thankfulness in Our Children
Chad and I have worked hard over the years to always demonstrate our faith through everyday actions. While kids are young, we are to be Jesus to them. When we teach them how to submit to us it’s because we want them to practice on us so they will be able to easily submit to [...]
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