Creative Ways to Beat Winter Boredom With Little Ones

Winters can seem L-O-N-G when you are a homeschooling mom of little ones. I think it is because we tend to hunker down and plow through our schoolwork with little to no regard for how long it takes. We all get tired of being inside …

Serving Your Kids {Without Being Child-Centered}

Last week I wrote about being a servant, here and received this question from a reader that I wanted to address, because I think it is a common concern for moms. Q:  God has definitely brought to my mind that I am to lay down …

Revolutionary Parenting: Some Basics

I wish kids came with an owners manual, but they don’t. They don’t even come with a care label: feed every 4 hours and bathe daily. 🙂 That’s why a book like George Barna’s Revolutionary Parenting is a great resource. If you missed yesterday’s post, you …

Revolutionary Parenting: What the Research Shows Really Works

One of the topics that I am passionate about is parenting. I love being a mom, and I have spent years reading, reading, reading about being the best wife and mother I could be. People seem to ask me their child raising questions, and have …

Grace for Holly Grace

This Sunday, my musically inclined little Holly played a piano solo for the first time in church. She is really a violinist, but she also enjoys playing around on the piano. (Music has always been her passion–since she was 2. I am not kidding.) And …

Giving Your Kids An Accurate View of God

Teaching our kids about God is one probably the biggest responsibility that Christian parents face. And sometimes it is an overwhelming task because there is so much to know about God, that we (parents) are still learning. Most of us don’t have a PhD in Theology. Some of …

Generation ME

My husband and I were challenged at a youth workers conference to read a book entitled Generation Me: Why  Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled- and More Miserable Than Ever Before. Weird thing was, that I actually had checked that very book out of …

What Happened to All the Titus 2 Mentors?

Last night I spoke to a sweet group of home schooling moms about the topic of keeping Your devotional life devotional. I was so encouraged by their desire to teach their children God’s word. We sat and chatted afterwards and as we spoke, the “topic” …

An Object Lesson about Love

When my oldest was little, she had a teddy bear. Its name was Bear. She lugged Bear around everywhere. She dressed him, put sunglasses on him, pushed him around in her little grocery carriage while she pretended to go shopping, and slept with him every …

A One Size Fits All Parenting Tip

Yesterday we talked about the one size fits all parenting strategy that  God prescribes for us in Psalm 78.  here  We are to teach our kids about God’s mighty acts, so that they will remember to hope in God and to obey Him. I don’t know …