Help Your Children Live Fruitful Lives Like basketball’s Boston Celtics or football’s Pittsburgh Steelers, we homeschoolers are, so to speak, a dynasty. Competitively, we dominate. Every year, seemingly, homeschoolers take top honors at the National Spelling Bee, span the globe victoriously at the Geography Bee, and argue our way to statewide forensics titles. We populate…
I’m 23, which means I’m old enough to be an adult, but young enough to still have stubborn weeds of foolishness, insert-foot-directly-in-mouth moments (“When I was young…”), and general lack of perspective. I’m also single, which status means that I’m stuck in our culture’s stereotype of an awkward no-man’s land: not a carefree kid, but…
Many years ago, my parents made a radical decision to keep their children home with them—no daycare, no preschool, no kindergarten, no elementary school, no middle school, no junior high, and no high school. Their brave decision then will change generations for centuries, because each one of my siblings and I are equally committed to…
“Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. . . .We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established testimony in Jacob,…
Read about the heart of the problem in Part I. Guarding Your Heart Since the condition of our heart determines our life, it is imperative that we carefully guard our hearts. How? By carefully giving it to the right people. Proverbs 23:26 says, “My son, give me thine heart.” Who wrote that, anyway? It was…
Proverbs 23:26 gives us this plea: “My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.” This concise statement contains one of the greatest truths pertaining to family relationships found anywhere in the Bible. In fact, it is probably impossible to violate this truth and not live to regret it. But why…
In case you missed it, you can read the phenomenal first part here. Secret 3: Learn from the Best What is the greatest dilemma of being a young entrepreneur? You know very little; but, even worse, you don’t know what you don’t know! It’s called unconscious incompetency. As hard as it is, we must look…
I wasn’t your ideal homeschool kid. Believe me. In fact, you’ve probably heard the breathtaking stories of amazingly disciplined 10-year-old “wonder children” who wake up every morning eagerly waiting to propose their top 5 goals for the day, listed with A, B, C, D and E priorities. Unfortunately for my mother, that wasn’t me. Nevertheless,…