Parenting
Lead Your Kids in Leading
I’ve heard it said that you can learn more as a teacher than you can as a student. I wish that it was a thought like that that led me to pass on my leading of our family devotions last week, but it wasn’t. The truth was… I just felt crummy. We try to spend [...]
This is Real Life
Charles Sykes, author of Dumbing Down Our Kids, shared a list of things high school and college graduates did not learn in school. As many high school students near graduation, lets take a look at those. Here are the first 5 “rules,” as Skyes called them. Rule 1: Life if not fair – get used [...]
This is Real Life
Charles Sykes, author of Dumbing Down Our Kids, shared a list of things high school and college graduates did not learn in school. As many high school students near graduation, lets take a look at those. Here are the first 5 “rules,” as Skyes called them. Rule 1: Life if not fair – get used [...]
Are Your Kids Getting Enough Sleep?
According to the National Sleep Foundation, American teenagers require about 9-1/4 hours of sleep a night, yet only 8 percent of them are getting it. A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that as much as two-thirds of high school students get less than seven hours of sleep nightly. You [...]
PLEEZEE, Clean Your Room!
“The Battle of the Bedroom: Most families at some point have at least one teen or pre-teen whose room resembles a landfill,” says Sue Shellenbarger, author of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Clean Your Room…or Else. Let’s talk about that “Battle of the Bedroom.” Ms. Shellenbarger recommended some strategies that [...]
Are They Even Getting It?
Here’s great encouragement to persevere with training children in Biblical truths (even when it seems futile).
Delayed Gratification
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Pamela Druckerman, author of the book “Bringing up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting,” asked the following question, “Could it be that teaching children how to delay gratification – as middle-class French parents do – actually makes them calmer and more resilient?” [...]
3 Ways to Breathe Life into Your Child’s Dreams
This weekend my oldest daughter and I spent about twenty hours helping out at a gymnastics meet. Yes, you’re reading that right. Twenty hours. The competing girls were all levels 3 & 4s. For many of them it was their first state competition. And their dreams were coming true. Kids are like that. The kids [...]
Evaluating Scholastic Progress in Your Homeschooled Student
It’s that time of year. The time of year where if two homeschooling moms get together — even if it’s in the aisles of Wal-Mart — their thoughts turn to how their kids measure up.It’s that time where we wonder if we’ve really done a good job. How would our kids compare to others? What [...]
Grandkids and Technology
Here’s a question that was recently asked. “What do you suggest I do as a grandmother of six, whose grandkids are constantly playing with those electronic gadgets when they visit?” This is not a question your grandmother had to ask. Today, however, kids who are mesmerized by “electronic gadgets” is a common occurrence and something [...]
