This is his classroom; a place where he is free to learn and grow; where he can discover who God made him to be; his dreams, his passions, his gifts and talents.
A place where he can learn in the way his brain works, rather than in the way a test tells him he must!
This is his classroom...

It’s not always clean, because this is real life,these are real children, and this is real learning.
Because I am a real mom.
But…when all the eraser dust settles, the masterpiece will be seen…

“You are not making the cut.” “You are not enough; you can’t do this.” So often these are the things we whisper to ourselves. Not only are we moms, wives and keepers of our home, but we are also the primary educators of our children. At times it can feel overwhelming. We feel as if…

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(GUEST POST) Now, nearly 30 years after graduating, I am homeschooling my own children. But it wasn’t until recently when I was reminiscing with my parents that they shared some insights that I hadn’t heard put into words before…...

Reading to your children and spending time outside are two of the best things we can do for our kids to set them up for success-physically, academically, mentally, socially, and spiritually.
Check out our compilation of of books for you to either read to your kids, or send them out, under a tree, to read independently.

I saw a photo the other day of a worn out, exhausted mother collapsed onto a chair, hand to forehead. The caption under the picture read “I put my symptoms into Web MD and it turns out I just have kids.” I couldn’t help but giggle. I knew exactly how she felt…

I wanted that freedom. I wanted that heart. I wanted to shake off the chains of formal education and embrace this love of teaching and learning that I saw; it felt so much more powerful than a piece of paper that was stamped with the big word CERTIFIED…

Do your kids have to stand by your side looking up at you, hoping to pull your eyes from the device, wondering why it seems more important than they are?
Do you carry on half-focused conversations with your children while your eyes, rather than looking into theirs, are looking into a screen?

What I thought, when I heard this, was that my kids would never fight, that we would not experience conflict in our family, and that there would be a beautiful unity between our children in our home, always.
Oh how wrong I was…

In the last two decades, childhood has moved indoors. The average American child spends as few as 30 minutes of unstructured outdoor play each day. Studies show that teens spend more than seven hours each day in front of a screen and now, with online learning becoming more common, our younger children are clocking in at about the same.
It’s hurting our kids. This is not how they were designed to thrive.

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As we are raising our children in righteousness amongst a world that is departing rapidly from truth, we are in a battle and the hearts and minds of our children are under attack.
We must look not just at the arrow, but beyond it as well…

The goal isn’t to raise loud kids marching for things they don’t understand or silent kids who sit back and watch because they have been conditioned.
The goal is to raise strong kids that can stand on truth.  
We do not want to produce a reckless generation led by emotion, but rather wise and discerning kids that are rooted on the foundations that will preserve their future.

We promise ourselves that this will be the year: the year to get it all done, the year our children won’t complain and the year we can try the new curriculum that everyone is talking about.
This will be the year we can implement all the ideas, suggestions and plans we have been dreaming about since the beginning.
And we forget…

Mom pressure is real.
The weight we carry is not a light load.
The demands on us are not child’s play.
The outcome of what we do happens to effect the life of another human.
No pressure, but mediocrity is not an option.
Lives are hanging in the balance…

WE have a pre-programmed idea that all education should look like the brick and mortar school down the street and we spend hours trying to re-create this school environment in our homes.
It’s what we know, it’s what we are familiar with, it’s what we think everyone else is doing. Surely, it must be the right way.
But is it?