Looking to raise independent learners in your homeschool? Your planner system and curriculum choice is critical.

Raising Independent Learners

Are you empowering or holding your children back? Aim to raise independent learners for life and your homeschool. It will lessen the workload and stress. In this post, I share how our curriculum choice and planner system helped me in my quest to get our children be more independent.  Read more…

What legacy are you leaving behind?

What Legacy Are You Leaving Behind?

Indeed, what will our family, friends and colleagues say of us when we return to the Lord? We cannot dictate the legacy we leave behind, nor how history will remember us. But we can do our best to make sure that we have done our part. Read more…

Beauty and the Beast. To watch or not to watch?

Beauty and the Beast Brouhaha

So, unless you have been living under a rock, you would have read or heard about the “nice, exclusively gay moment” in Disney’s latest offering, Beauty and the Beast. So, are the conservatives really making a mountain out of a molehill? Or is there really an insidious plot to brainwash our children? How will YOU decide on this issue? Read more…

Too overwhelmed

Too Overwhelmed to Shower

Feeling too overwhelmed hits us every now and then. I totally get it. It could be due to a sudden change in circumstances. It could be due to money woes or even hormonal changes. This post is specifically for new mothers and mothers with high need babies. How Overwhelmed Have You Been? Just this week, […] Read more…

Gatekeepers of our children’s health

Who decides what baby’s first food will be? Or what goes into your child’s lunch box for recess? And who decides what the family will eat on a daily basis? Mom, I believe it is you. Like it or not, mothers, we are the gatekeepers of our children’s health. What we decide to store in our pantries and cook in our kitchens affect their taste buds and habits. Even after they leave home. Read more…

Encouraging sibling closeness and not rivalry. Don't play favourites!

Encouraging sibling closeness not rivalry

If there is only one lesson you get from this post, it will be this : don’t play favourites. It has long term repercussions. It may be difficult if you have one child that you constantly butt heads with. But you are the adult. BE the adult. Don’t play one child against another.

Sometimes we don’t think we are but to the children we are. (And yes, sometimes, they are being ridiculous). We just need to be aware of how certain actions and behaviours come across to the other children. Read more…

Devotions with the Children – Then and Now

In my last post, Struggling to spend quiet times with the Lord?, I shared my struggle on finding time to spend with the Lord and how these times have changed with each season of my life. Today, I tackle another popular question from mothers – how to get our children to do their devotions, preferably on their […] Read more…

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