We live in an entertainment-driven society. Everyone tries to add an element of fun to everything, even the church. Somehow we think if we entertain the kids they will learn something while they are having fun. I’m not in this camp!
Dana has a well-written post on just this very thing…check it out! And check out [...]

Chuck Colson has a great entry about how important it is to have a biblical worldview. He points to Dorothy Sayer’s “Lost Tools of Learning.”
Sayer’s says about teaching, “…we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning.”
I believe this so much! I graduated from [...]

Trying to keep up with housework, paying bills, cooking, etc. is the hard part of homeschooling for me. Forget that I was never good at these things even when I wasn’t homeschooling…so now it’s much worse.
I’m trying to add little things, one at a time, until I get it all mastered! (if God allows that [...]

My son is still using his lanyard with his schedule in it. It does seem to help him stay on task…and not loose the schedule
You would even laugh…I have resorted to wearing the schedule as well! I have our MOTH schedule in an excel document. So I copied and pasted into Publisher and [...]

I stumbled across something I read quite a while back, but it is great help if you are just starting with Spell To Write & Read. “Getting Started 101″ by Liz FitzGerald. It will walk you through setting up your materials, where to start reading, how to start a master learning log, and more.
I set [...]

God is now working on my discipline and keeping balance in my life. Here is an old article from Homeschool World titled “Controlling Apples” by Lori Harris that I found encouraging.
I’m also trying to figure out how to best incorporate some ideas from largefamilylogistics.net.
Between lesson plans, bible study and two other books I’m trying to [...]