That’s what living books do. They become your friends, they touch your life, and you aren’t the same afterwards. You have relationships with them, and they make you feel emotions as any friend would....
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In an age where the family seems disconnected more than ever and the general expectation is for teens to rebel, I am blessed to enjoy close-knit relationships with my children. As I reflect on how this happened, it’s not complicated, but it was intentional. ...
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While using the library can make a lot of sense financially, it helps to be organized. Otherwise you may find that you don’t have the book you need, or that you are paying large fines! Here are some tips to help you use your library effectively....
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In our home, when the kids were starting out, I didn’t know much about reading out loud. With my A-type personality and love of worksheets, we had bookshelves full of textbooks and encyclopedias....
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Enjoy this time with your littlest learner! Though you may feel stretched by the many demands of parenting young children, homeschooling in its essence is so very time efficient....
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Unfortunately, no school plan is fool proof. While many families have to deal with the interruption of illness, a move, or some other unexpected crisis, sometimes it just comes down to the realization that you need a break just because! ...
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For many of us, our homeschool curriculum foundation is built on the beauty of living books. We provide a delightful flow of learning for our children with each and every page. But, absorbing the depth of living books should not stop just because we finish school....
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I’m not saying you should never buy a textbook, but it shouldn’t be the lifeblood of your program. Use it more to sort of pull concepts together. Reading about science is okay for some of the time. For the other 95% of the time, just have a blast doing science....
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Christian Heroes Then & Now books simply show what it looks like for a normal, failure-ridden, everyday person to live a life fully surrendered to Christ. Through this revelation, lives are being changed, whether in family read-aloud time or behind prison bars....
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