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One of the subjects that I dreaded when I first considered homeschooling was reading. I was terrified I’d never be able to teach my kids how to read and their education would forever suffer. In the six years we’ve been homeschooling, I’ve learned that teaching reading isn’t as hard as I’d feared. That’s mostly because…
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Hope for the Stressed-Out, Angry Mom
I’m a mom of four boys. Yeah, 4 boys. They currently range in age from nine years down to two months. I confess that I’m stressed-out and exhausted. The chaos. The messes. The noise. It’s easy for that stress and frustration to turn into anger. And I resort to yelling way more often than I’d…
Intentional Impact: 10 Ways to Pass Your Faith on to Your Kids
The older I get, the more I realize how quickly time passes by. It seems like just yesterday when I was a kid, and now here I am raising five of my own. Each year that passes is one less year that I have to make an impact on my children, and I am continually…
5 Ways to Help Your Kids Make Biblical Goals for the New Year
2016 is here and it is a time that we begin to make goals. Many people focus on a One Word that will help them with different areas of their lives. This can be confusing or hard to understand for kids – and yet, this is such a biblical concept. Here are 5 ways to…
A Story of the Book
A long time ago, in a land not so far away, a young boy grew in the kingdom of his grandfather, the rightful heir to a rich and prosperous throne. His grandfather, while mighty and blessed, was a cruel and wicked man. Though his father had served the one, true God of the land, the…
A Family Bible Study for the New Year
Have you made any goals for the new year? Do any of them involve helping your family grow closer to Jesus? An excellent way to reach this goal is to find a time at least once a month to gather your family together for a family Bible time. Don’t know what to study together? No…
Teaching Your Kids To Be IN The World, But Not OF The World
“How do you love the sinner without loving the sin?” Hasn’t this been the age-old question? Our kids started out being homeschooled, but after some complications we decided to enroll 2 of our 5 kids into the public school that was practically in our backyard. We have been blown away with the support they have given…
The Lord’s Prayer
Sometimes, words fail me. This affliction seems to strike me at the most inopportune times. I often find myself without the words that seem appropriate during difficult times. When someone shares something with me that is deeply personal, and sometimes painful, I often find myself struggling with emotions so big that I don’t know how…
5 Biblical Truths You Can Teach Your Kids From Football
My boys are crazy about football. Their obsession with football is interesting to me. NFL games. College games. Fantasy Football games. They’ve even trained the five-year-old to complete the plays they have written for their own backyard games! I enjoy watching games with them and I have learned quite a bit about football as a…
The Wisdom Of God Memory Cards
Welcome to the 2016 Kids in the Word Family Scripture Memory Challenge! To start 2016 off, we are going to be focusing on the Wisdom of God and memorizing Proverbs 2:1-18! This passage teaches us a lot about the wisdom of God, and how we can have wisdom in this life! This is a great…