Build a Heart of Obedience One of the biggest causes of burnout in home education is out-of-control kids. We as parents must obey God and train our kids to obey, telling them that if they don’t learn when they are small it will be much harder when they are older. Our approach to obedience is…
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Preschoolers: Shaping Little Hearts- Part 2
Teach Doctrine Early David Barton, from WallBuilders, tells how in the 1800s, our country used the catechism to teach kids doctrine. Kids really can learn! We haven’t done that, but we have used books by Carolyn Nystrom: What is God? Who is Jesus? What is the Bible? A couple of our kids were actually prompted…
Preschoolers: Shaping Little Hearts- Part 1
I have eight boys and six girls, and we’ve been homeschooling for over 30 years now. I figured out that when I’m finished homeschooling my six-year-old we’ll have been doing this for thirty-six years…maybe by then we’ll know what we’re doing! When I started homeschooling, my oldest was in kindergarten, I had two preschool children,…
