No, It Doesn’t Take a Village, but . . .

Informative, Just For Fun, Organization

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Written by Mary Hood, Ph.D.
www.archersforthelord.org
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No, it doesn’t take a village to raise a child. It takes a committed family unit to raise a child. However, the judicious use of community resources can add a lot to the home base. We always said that our home was the heart of our homeschooling, but most of our learning occurred out in the larger community.

When our family first began homeschooling, few resources were available to homeschoolers. There were no support groups, no curriculum fairs, no catalogues arriving in the mail, no Facebook, and no Internet. What we did have were numerous community resources: libraries, church and secular organizations, volunteer opportunities, and family field trips to a myriad of interesting places. (more…)

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Framed

Informative, Just For Fun

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Written by Mark Hamby
www.lamplighter.net
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Language is important to God. Yet, many drift through life without any real dialogue with a God Who desires to be personal.

Gene Edward Veith, author of Reading Between the Lines, writes:

We can never know anyone intimately by simply being in that person’s presence. We need to have a conversation in order to share our thoughts and our personalities. By the same token, we need a conversation with God—a two-way conversation through language—in order to know Him on a personal basis. Just as human beings address God by means of language through prayer, God addresses human beings by means of language in the pages of Scripture. Prayer and Bible reading are central to a personal relationship with God.

 To illustrate this point, let’s take a look at one of the ways God communicates with us. (more…)

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Away We Go! Ten Awesome Field Trips

Informative, Just For Fun, Preschoolers, Projects

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Written by Kelly Vittoria
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As any homeschooling family knows, much of our children’s learning actually takes place outside of the home. Field trips can be an exciting, if not essential, component of your family’s curriculum. They spark an interest in children of all ages and can be valuable resources to enhance lessons being taught in the home.

Following is a list of ten free or low-cost field trips that can boost learning and in some cases help nourish your child’s soul: (more…)

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