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Homeschooling, Adam Clarke style… (Adam who?!)
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, originally published in the early 1800s, has an interesting note on Deuteronomy 6:25. It is about the most excellent summary of homeschooling philosophy I've ever read. I can't stop thinking about it. I wish I were smart enough...
The Multi-Age Homeschool
One of the toughest things about homeschooling is managing multiple ages at once. Since I believe that my job as a mother is to be with my children while they're learning (see Deuteronomy 6:7 and Proverbs 29:15), I have to figure out how to be with seven different...
Just Follow Your Heart
Today, we're continuing on with our discussion from chapter 3 of Juggling Life's Responsibilities. "According to Jeremiah 17:9, we should not trust our own judgment. Why not?" Let me give you a little background to this discussion. In my Juggling book, I wrote, "Women...
The Fear of the LORD
As we continue our Bible study from my Juggling Life's Responsibilities, we see this question: "According to Psalm 111:10, where does wisdom begin?" "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding" (Psalm 111:10)....
Motivation for Learning
How can we motivate our children to learn? I absolutely love homeschooling and have no desire to educate my children in any other way, but admittedly, one of the biggest drawbacks to homeschooling is the lack of competition and the give-and-take that can happen in a...
Today I want to quickly list a few "homeschooling" goals that are straight from Scripture. I'm hoping to gain some principles I can use to choose a homeschooling philosophy, method and curriculum out of the trillions of options that are available to me. Actually,...
Brainstorming a Homeschool Philosophy
Ladies, it's late at night when I'm writing this, and I have simply got to get to bed. My eyes are heavy... I'm falling asleep... Seriously, I'm breaking my be-in-bed-by-ten-o'clock rule. 🙂 I didn't have time to finish this blog post as I wanted to, but I'll give...
Homeschooling in a Modern Pantheon
We're deep into the history of Rome here in our homeschool, currently studying the ceasars before Nero, during the spread of the gospel and the lives of the apostles. It's really fascinating stuff! 🙂 We recently studied about some of the temples constructed for...
Homeschooling Goals – Unschooling
As I mentioned in an earlier post on homeschooling goals, many times we homeschoolers are guilty of being sluggish in our thinking, too quickly adopting goals as our own when we haven't compared them against Scripture. Often we make goals by reading popular books or...
