How Can I Reenergize Our Home School if My Children Are Bored or Unmotivated?

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By Zan Tyler
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“Mom, can I go to real school?” I remember my 8-year-old asking me that question like it was yesterday. I feared that our homeschooling journey might end that day. But God was faithful, and my son graduated happily from our home school ten years later.

During our twenty-one years of homeschooling, I could sometimes trace my children’s dissatisfaction or boredom to my own attitudes—at times I needed new vision, a change in focus, or a little more creativity. At other times, I simply needed to alter a child’s course by discerning his needs and strengths. The following pursuits brought energy, motivation, and life into our home year after year. (more…)

Active Duty Homeschooling

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By Carrie Daws
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With its ups and downs, homeschooling is like being on a roller coaster. Some moments you rush at high speed as you cherish your children and can’t dream of ever doing anything else. Other moments drag on as you doggedly remind yourself of the reasons you’re doing this in the first place.

Military life isn’t much different. (more…)

We Are Not Alone

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Written by Katharine Trauger
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Imagine with me, if you can, that you live on the East Coast in a town that has been established for only about twenty years, when many of your friends live in log cabins and England is taxing you out of house and home. You are of famous Puritan descent and are married to a Congregational minister. Your little girl is born the year after Thomas Jefferson and the year before John Jay. You have yet to meet them, but you know your daughter has made her appearance at an auspicious time and place.

Imagine, if you can, your delight as she grows and begins to show her personality, to find that she is a generous soul, kind to all, with wise perceptions of her little world,  and everyone’s darling. She loves buttons and bows, the more colorful, the better. (more…)