Warmth – An Essential Nutrient For Early Learning
A necessary, but often overlooked, component of learning is emotional arousal. In laymen’s terms, that means we learn more when feelings of pleasure and interest are associated with a learning experience. Our memory system encodes what we are experiencing more deeply, more lastingly and in greater detail when we are not just cognitively engaged but [...]
‘Tis the Season to Pause
Much has been written about the seasons of life. Childhood is often compared to spring, young adulthood to summer, middle age to fall, and old age to winter. Marriage and parenthood also have their seasons. In her book Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, Sally Clarkson refers to spring, summer, fall, and winter as the seasons [...]
Your Family’s Christmas Schedule—Flustered or Flexible?
By Davis Carman There are plenty of good reasons to educate your children at home, and I’ve put together a top ten list that’s intended for fun but is true nonetheless. Counting down from number ten: 10. Your kids will never miss the bus. 9. Praying and reading the Bible are allowed. 8. You don’t [...]
Homeschooling As A Single Parent
How You Can Make It Work
By Mary Jo Tate Let’s face it: being a single parent intensifies the challenges of homeschooling. In most two-parent homeschooling families, the dad takes primary responsibility for earning the living while the mom takes primary responsibility for educating the children. The labor is divided, and the support is multiplied. Although there are also many [...]
Listen in Live and Online for Free
An Evening of Homeschool Encouragement! Join Debra Bell and Zan Tyler for two hours of homeschooling information, inspiration, and fellowship. The new homeschool year is starting, and we’re celebrating with two free webinars! On Thursday, August 16, from 8:00 p.m. eastern until 10:00 p.m. eastern, Debra and Zan will treat us to 2 encouraging sessions—listen [...]
Back to Homeschool
Back to Homeschool Davis Carman Have you ever seen those Family Circus cartoons by the late Bill Keane where Billy or one of the other children took the scenic route to get from point A to point B? Having been assigned a relatively simple task like taking a letter to the mailbox, the child’s course [...]
Teach Them Truth
By Rachael Carman Our culture is so full of lies that it’s difficult to know where to start listing them. In generations past, the lies were of the back-alley, smoke-filled-room variety. These were lies that nearly everyone could identify, that almost everyone acknowledged as lies. Not so anymore. Today’s lies have graduated to respectability, [...]
What’s A Dad To Do?
Being a little more intentional can be fun — and impact eternity A while back I received a phone call from my son who attends a Christian college in New York City. We talked about classes, girls, and his lack of money. Then he got to the real point of his call. "Dad, I really [...]
7 Tools For Cultivating Your Child’s Potential – Special Price for Kindle and iTunes – and Book Club Announcement
7 Tools For Cultivating Your Child's Potential, written by Zan Tyler will take you on a journey beyond the status quo, as you learn how to use the tools the Master Gardener provides for tending and teaching all of your children (toddlers to teens). Now, you can enjoy Zan's encouraging book as a special summer [...]
Mother’s Day Monday Results: Everyone Wins!
This week you may have seen a few of our posts with the headline "Mother's Day Monday." Our initial post (seen here) called for stories of heroes of motherhood and we received some great stories. We had planned to pick three winners out of the entries but, as we only got five submissions, we just [...]
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