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What Do You Use To Measure
Friday: From the Archives Each Friday I plan to post a previous post from the archives. Hope you enjoy it! What's your measuring stick? (Originally posted here in Nov, 2005) What do I use as a yardstick to measure my family's growth by? I think a lot of us can fall...
Parenting – for whose sake?
To go along with the quote I posted previously, here is another one. Ouch! Yes, God I know... but isn't it enough already? The challenges of raising a child are as much for the sanctification of the parents as they are for the benefit of the child.~ Bryan Chapell
God’s Hidden Agenda
God’s initial goal for Christian homeschooling families is not the raising of godly children. Instead, God’s wonderful, but subtly hidden agenda is that the homeschooling experience be so challenging for the parents that they feel the need and hunger for a closer walk with their heavenly Father.
Where are the best apples?
This is doing the rounds on Facebook but it's too good not to share. Not one word of it is mine but I don't know it's original source. It's a good word picture to share with your children. Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys...
Back in the land of the living
Whoa, what a week! I'v been sick with a horrid flu for one week... barely able to get out of bed. Body aches, fever, chills, coughing, headache and everything else that goes with the flu. There was a 3 day period that has totally escaped me. I was so out of it that I...
Stop the excuses… Just Do It
A few years ago, when I was doing Heart of Wisdom Unit studies and helping others to start homeschooling I found myself repeating the same phrase over again. Just Do It I know that a blogging friend also likes and uses the same catchphrase so I guess I'm in good...
I Don’t Want Kids
I love my children! I don’t want kids. Do our words matter? Does it make a difference if we refer to our children as ‘kids’?
No Teens Here
There was a time when I banned the word 'teen' from our home. Being that the concept of 'teenagers' is a relatively new phenomenon we wanted to avoid the whole drama that seems to be synonymous with those teenage years. But you may have noticed that I have changed. I...
Qualities of an Educated Person
Yesterday I posted the 12 Things You Might Not Have Learned in a Classroom by John Taylor Gatto. I was actually looking in my computer for the 20 Qualities but couldn't find it. But now I've found it! The Twenty Qualities of an Educated Person by John Taylor Gatto 1....
12 Things You Might Not Have Learned in a Classroom
Many years ago I read something else that John Taylor Gatto wrote... I printed it out and stuck it on the wall. But many house moves later and I have lost it, which is a shame. However, whilst searching for it I came across this post. Higher Education: 12 Things You...
Finally… a homeschool post!
This is, after all, a blog by a homeschool mum eh? There's not been much posting about homeschool related matters lately though. Okay, time to update on what the boys are doing for their 'lessons' lately. If you've known us for awhile, you'll know that we believe all...
Try, try, try again
April 29th 2009 was when I started my Fit n 40 quest. How did I go? Well, I gained strength and fitness so I definitely gained some health. I even managed to play softball again. I went from doing circuit training to lifting heavy weights... and then somehow,...
What would happen if we treated our Bible like our cell phone?
This did the Internet rounds a few years ago and I shared it then... but it's too good to not share again. I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell Phones? What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets? What if we turned back...
What about my rights?
"To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but rather recognizing that I haven't any, except to deserve hell. It means just being nothing and having nothing that I call my own, neither time, money,...
How to eat an elephant
Where to begin? It's been over one month since I last posted! I have heaps to write about but very little time in which to do so. I could have logged on and just written quick snippets but I keep holding out for the time to write that long, descriptive, captivating,...
Unschooling or School At Home. So which is it?
If you've read my blog over the years or my forum posts you may be excused for wondering what type of homeschoolers we are! One month we seem to be favouring an unschooling approach and another month we seem to be doing school-at-home! Looking at our homeschooling...
What is the Chief End of Homeschooling?
The Chief End of Homeschooling: there is an eternal reason for all this mess, untidiness, and constant training. That reason is that God wants ALL of us- our entire life. Our goal is to love God and glorify Him forever – in the midst of spilled Weetbix and poopie nappies and children that can’t spell.
Michal: first wife of King David
Knowing I was going to be laid up recently I had been on the lookout for a new fiction book. I don't remember how I came to find out about this new series but I'm glad that I did. I have been wondering if I'd find a series to enjoy as much as I loved Gods and Kings......
Kneeding to rest
Well, I'm in and out. Had the knee surgery and am on the mend. The surgeon found that the problem wasn't as much with my meniscus cartilage as much as it was Joint Surface Damage. There was a bone flap that was sticking out and causing the pain and trouble. So he cut...
Kneeding surgery
Well hasn't it been a busy week? With taxi-ing children to their activities, upgrading websites, building new ones, housekeeping, softball, phone calls and forums there's little time left over for blogging! Who remembers that I injured my knee late last year? Actually...
