Young Beggars ~ Léon Bazille Perrault (1832–1908) ~ Unknown Date
Ultimate List of Christian-Based Homeschool Curriculum
Are you looking for a new curriculum? Hoping to shop around? Heather Bowen has compiled a great list of Christian-based curriculums (and links!) to get you started on your search.
Still looking for good curriculum? Tauna has some good ideas about where to look and who to ask. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Twenty-Three of Bible Road Trip ~ 1 Kings ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Twenty-Two of Bible Road Trip ~ 1 Kings ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Lady Writing a Love Letter ~ Unknown Artist (India) ~ 1700-1800 AD
Family Ministry: Shaping a Child’s Soul, a Task Too Important to be Entrusted to a Professional
Timothy Paul Jones has written an important article about the role of the church in discipling a child. His case is stated for church leadership, but I believe it to be equally important for us as parents. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Twenty-One of Bible Road Trip ~ 2 Samuel ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Twenty of Bible Road Trip ~ 2 Samuel ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Saint George Struggling with the Dragon ~ Cabinet Painting by Raphael (1483-1520) ~ 1504-1506
Tony Payne makes a good point about the ancient cultures we read about in the Bible. It’s a quick read, and worth pondering.
6 Discontinuities between the Old and New Covenants
This is a great chart from Herbert W. Bateman IV showing six ways Christ fulfilled a type from the Old Testament. As you may expect, the real thing (Jesus) is always better than the foreshadowing. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Nineteen of Bible Road Trip ~ 1 Samuel ~ Part Three. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Eighteen of Bible Road Trip ~ 1 Samuel ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Boy in a Red Vest ~ Watercolor by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) ~ c.1890
5 Tools Needed to Reach Today’s Teens
“I have ministered to adolescents for eleven years, eight of them as a youth minister. Based on my conversations with kids and observations in the culture, I consider these five theological tools essential for parents, pastors, and youth ministers hoping to minister effectively to today’s teens.” Cameron Cole gives a list of five things we need to be to teach our teens (and I would argue that we need to teach to our teens). He includes suggested reading for each subject. I am considering adding these books to our high school reading list. Continue Reading →
There are a lot of books in the world. Few are as exciting to me as the books that help children understand Scripture better.
I don’t think there is any substitute to Scripture itself. However, it can be difficult for children to discern the overall storyline of Scripture when their understanding of the Bible consists of seemingly isolated hero stories. When kids think the Bible is really about the people within its pages — Samson, Ruth, or Noah — they can miss the true meaning.
Paul Reynolds has written a wonderful book that can be used in morning devotions, at family worship, or read by older children (8-12) on their own. 66 Books One Story: A Guide to Every Book of the Bible (Christian Focus Publications, 2013) is a 235 page overview of Scripture. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Seventeen of Bible Road Trip ~ 1 Samuel ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Sixteen of Bible Road Trip ~ Ruth. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Are You Teaching a Child or Training a Teen?
Wise words from Mark Gregston: “Children spend the majority of their lives being taught, whether that’s in the classroom, at church, or in their own home. By the time they reach their teens, they have a large amount of practical knowledge stored up inside their heads. It’s not that teenagers know it all (even though they can act like it many times)—they still need to learn. But as they progress into adulthood, what they really require is a place to practice what they’ve learned.” Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Fifteen of Bible Road Trip ~ Judges ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
It seems that a Parent/Teacher Guide is in order, so I’ve created one to help facilitate your use of Bible Road Trip. Continue Reading →
In a very personal post, Heidi St. John reminds us that the “experts” don’t always (often?) know what they’re talking about: “It was 1993. We were expecting our second baby. Our first daughter had mastered toddling and was rapidly moving into terrorizing. Ahh, the “terrible twos” were upon us.” Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Fourteen of Bible Road Trip ~ Judges ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Note: This is the last week of Year One. You can expect the curriculum for Year Two to begin posting in mid-July of 2013. Until then, I will be posting the remaining notebook pages for Year One.
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at Esther ~ the twelfth (and last!) of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers Vietnam. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Croatia, Moldova, and Romania.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Thirty-Two ~ Esther is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
“According to researcher George Barna, most children’s Sunday School curricula only cover 40-60 of the “major” stories of Scripture. The “minor” stories (which one are those, exactly?) are totally missed, and even the major ones tend to be summarized at the lower grades. In other words, the Bible is taught to children as a collection of stories rather than ONE story, hopping and skipping through the Bible to just give the highlights.” John C. Kwasny, Ph.D. of One Story Ministries explains the problem with this popular approach to teaching kids the Bible. Continue Reading →
I read a lot of middle grade and young adult Christian biographies. A lot of them. They all tend to be edifying, to point my mind toward Christ, and to help me contemplate how I spend the hours of my own life. I’ve found they tend to do the same for my children.
Few of them touch me so deeply that I cry.
Nancy Drummond’s new biography of Nate Saint is a rare emotional gem. Nate Saint: Operation Auca (Christian Focus Publications, 2012) is written for ages 9 to 14 (or to be used as a read-aloud for younger children) for Christian Focus’ Torchbearers line. The Torchbearers series covers the lives of Christian martyrs in a narrative fashion. Continue Reading →
I’m going to let you in on a secret that’s pretty well known by the people around me.
I am not a supermom.
I don’t speak in a sing-song voice. I can’t make a cake look like anything other than a cake. Sometimes my microwave goes weeks without getting cleaned. I forget about holidays until noon on the day they are occurring. I even fall down on the whole chronicling-my-kids’-lives-in-photos-thing. My husband recently joined Facebook, and now I sometimes remember to take pictures at the Science Museum so he can see how much fun we’re having.
I know where my strengths lie… and I am painfully aware of my weaknesses. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Thirteen of Bible Road Trip ~ Joshua ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at Nehemiah ~ the eleventh of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers New Zealand. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Thirty-One ~ Nehemiah is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
Motherhood at the Foot of the Cross
An absolutely gorgeous post by Elisha Galotti. This is a must-read. “…there are the other days, the ones where I wake up sleep-deprived, already impatient, on the edge, angry words controlling my speech before we even start breakfast. I know from talking with other moms that this is not a unique experience. There are days where we hear ourselves speak, we see ourselves parent, and it’s graceless, joyless, severe.” Continue Reading →
Have you ever noticed how much of the Old Testament is devoted to the planning, building and use of the tabernacle? 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” Even the long, detailed sections about the tabernacle.
The tabernacle, and the temple after it, were just a shadow of a promise God later fulfilled through the coming of Christ and the New Covenant. I found a short article about that at Ligonier Ministries. You can read “The True Tabernacle” by Douglas Kelly for a little perspective on the importance of this tent God had the Israelites build.
Long story short, if we’re going to teach our children about the Bible, we need to teach them the story of the tabernacle and the priestly system. That can be a daunting task. A new book written by Jean Stapleton, God’s Special Tent (Christian Focus Publications, 2013) can help. Written for ages 8-12, God’s Special Tent is a 44-page activity book. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Twelve of Bible Road Trip ~ Joshua ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at Ezra ~ the tenth of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers Samoa. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Cyprus, Albania, and Macedonia.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Thirty ~ Ezra is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
7 Words From The Cross: The Word Of Salvation
Mark Altrogge is posting a series of “7 Words from the Cross”. Take a look. The posts are short, and the exposition is good. Actually, there were like 5 posts I considered linking to here. You might just want to take a few moments and poke around The Blazing Center site (there are a few writers).
As we enter the week remembering Christ’s sacrifice for us and his death, burial and resurrection, it can be helpful to remember our place in our efforts to glorify Him. As we sing “Hosanna”, Courtney of Women Living Well has a few words for us. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Eleven of Bible Road Trip ~ Deuteronomy. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Ten of Bible Road Trip ~ Numbers ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Parents, do you think before you post?
Jen Wilkin takes on the issue of documenting our children’s childhoods on social media. She makes some excellent points, but she’s so succinct, that I’m not going to give anything away by quoting her. I’ll just say this: if you have kids, and you “post”, this is a must-read. While I was poking around Jen Wilkin’s blog, I found an older post, “Worship together” that I loved. This does a great job of outlining our family’s thought process regarding corporate worship, children’s church (Sunday School), and families. Read it. Really. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Seven of Bible Road Trip ~ Numbers ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Eight of Bible Road Trip ~ Leviticus. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Have you or your children ever wondered what Saint Patrick’s Day is really about? Was there really a Patrick – and what’s the deal with the shamrock? Christian History Magazine’s archives are an excellent resource. They’ve allowed public access to this article about Patrick by Mary Cagney: “A fleet of 50 currachs (longboats) weaved its way toward the shore, where a young Roman Brit and his family walked. His name was Patricius, the 16-year-old son of a civil magistrate and tax collector. He had heard stories of Irish raiders who captured slaves and took them “to the ends of the world,” and as he studied the longboats, he no doubt began imagining the worst.” Continue Reading →
Here in the great Pacific Northwest we’re enjoying the first signs of spring. Oh, are we excited! Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Seven of Bible Road Trip ~ Exodus ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at 2 Chronicles ~ the ninth of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers Fiji. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Europe and Greece.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Twenty-Nine ~ 2 Chronicles is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post.
As a reminder, you can download the Overview for Bible Road Trip here. To easily access the available weeks of Bible Road Trip, you may visit www.BibleRoadTrip.org. A new weekly syllabus publishes each Wednesday. Continue Reading →
The Death of a Vision – Could be Your Greatest Learning Experience
Dave Stelzl blogs and speaks about raising children to be entrepreneurs. He has carried that teaching into their family’s homeschool. Recently, his children ran up against new legislation that had the potential to kill a small business they were already running. Here, he writes about what they learned: “It’s always interesting, and educational, to talk with someone who oversees a state law on something like this. As part of the home school learning process, this is the kind of call you want your kids to make – learning to ask the right questions, but also learning how laws are made, and how not to make laws or rules. It’s also a time to practice having the right response – and learning to be creative rather than just giving up. As we work through this exercise, some important questions and learning concepts come to mind…”
Raising Kids in a Pornified Culture
Zach Nielsen gives 8 ways to raise your kids in a culture where porn is everywhere. I was going to highlight my favorite suggestion, but I agree with them all. You need to read the article. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Six of Bible Road Trip ~ Exodus ~ Part One. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at 1 Chronicles ~ the eighth of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers Papua New Guinea. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Kiribati.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Twenty-Eight ~ 1 Chronicles is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
10 Sure Signs We’ve Lost Our Minds
Trevin Wax gives a brief commentary. I found it interesting — and accurate. “Documenting the bizarre beliefs and inconsistencies that surface in contemporary discourse…
1. We worry about the shallowness and superficiality of online relationships, so we go to FaceBook and Twitter to register our concerns.”
How to Choose a Bible Translation for Your Kids
Amanda Pelser has put together a great article on how to choose a Bible translation — without actually telling you what you should choose: “Here’s a dilemma that most families face: Your child is ready for a “real” Bible or you want to read a “real” Bible to them from the beginning instead of a children’s Bible, but there are so many choices. How do you know which Bible translation is best?” Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that I love Christian Focus Publication’s Trailblazers line of Christian biographies for children ages 9-14). They are written by various authors in a narrative format with fictionalized dialogue. Reading a Trailblazers book almost feels as though one is reading a novel rather than a biography.
I also really appreciate the fact that the Trailblazers series covers figures from Christian history that are generally not available in books for children. Some of the men and women they’ve covered in their 35 published biographies (so far) include John Stott, John Calvin, Martin Lloyd-Jones, and Queen Mary of Orange. See what I mean? Not your average fare. The books also cover some of the wonderful missionaries we all love to read about like Mary Slessor, Gladys Aylward and Adoniram Judson.
These books have become a standard part of our history curriculum.
I was excited to see a new addition to the Trailblazers line, John Knox: The Sharpened Sword by Catherine Mackenzie (Christian Focus Publications, 2012). Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Five of Bible Road Trip ~ Genesis ~ Part Three. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at chapters 18-25 of the book of 2 Kings ~ the seventh of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers the Dayak. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is American Samoa and Samoa.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Twenty-Seven ~ 2 Kings ~ Part Three is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
Daniel Darling has written two terrific articles for fathers that you won’t want to miss:
5 Things Every Daughter Needs to Hear From Her Dad
“…I love having daughters. There is something about having a daughter that softens a man, adds a certain tenderness to his soul. In that spirit, I’d like to share five things every daughter needs to hear from her father…” ~ Daniel Darling
5 Things Every Son Needs to Hear From His Dad
“…the job of raising a son is a noble and important task. It is a job many men abdicate, leading to what is now a full-blown crisis in our country: a crisis of fatherhood. Look up the statistics when you have time and you will see that a very high percentage of young men in prison experienced little or no involvement from Dad. In my pastoral role, I’ve seen the devastating effects of a father’s absence or lack of leadership in the life of his son.
Fathering your sons is a serious job, men. And so in that spirit, I’d like to offer five things every son needs to hear from his father…” ~ Daniel Darling Continue Reading →
There are so many decisions to be made as a parent, aren’t there?
I frequently see questions about parenting and homeschooling on forums and boards across the internet. Overwhelmed parents are searching for answers.
Friends, I believe that we benefit from having principles by which we judge our parenting decisions. In fact, I think there are 5 questions we can ask ourselves that can serve as guideposts in every parenting or homeschooling choice we make.
By asking ourselves the following, we can help ensure that our families will remain on a wise, godly, discerning path. Continue Reading →
This week, I am posting Notebook Pages for Year One Week Four of Bible Road Trip ~ Genesis ~ Part Two. I’ve posted these by level (Lower Grammar, Upper Grammar, Dialectic) – that way, you can print exactly what you want. To access the free sheets, just click on the link below the titles.
The Notebooking Pages are designed to be used with Bible Road Trip. Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer! Continue Reading →
Bible Road Trip is an exciting journey which places you and your children in the driver’s seat! Aimed at youth grades 1-12, Bible Road Trip will allow your family to survey the Bible cover-to-cover in 3 years ~ with breaks for summer!
Available weekly: Notebooking Pages for Bible Road Trip!
This week we’re looking at chapters 10-17 of the book of 2 Kings ~ the seventh of the Historical Books. The prayer focus for the Grammar levels covers Indonesia. For Dialectic and Rhetoric students (middle school and high school), the prayer focus is Wallis & Fortuna, and Tonga.
Bible Road Trip ~ Year One Week Twenty-Six ~ 2 Kings ~ Part Two is attached in a downloadable, printable file at the end of this post. Continue Reading →
8 Ways to tell your Kids “I Love You”
An absolutely beautiful post by Rachel Marie Martin.
Writing a Family Mission Statement
“Although most parents have unspoken goals for their children — financial, spiritual, physical, emotional — these big ideas seldom translate into reality accidentally. One way to prioritize what your family values is to write a family mission statement. This written declaration isn’t a guarantee of family success, but it can help establish a family’s identity even as it reinforces what is important.” ~ Sheila Seifert and Jeanne Gowen Dennis
I had the opportunity to participate in this article for Focus on the Family. My husband and I have found benefit in developing a family mission statement. Continue Reading →
