Lessons in Responsibility for Boys

Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 13:15 | Category : Bible, Character Training, Reviews
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Boys are curious creatures if you ask me.  One day I think I’ve got mothering boys down, and the next day I realize I have no clue!  They want different things than girls – they need different things than girls.  One thing I’ve seen in both of my boys, as compared to my daughter, [...]

Names of Jesus Unit

Thursday, 18 December 2008, 11:50 | Category : Bible, Christmas
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This has been such a relaxing and awesome study!  Using Easy Fun School’s free unit titled The Names of Jesus, we’ve spent a little time each day focusing on one of His names from the Bible and creating a scrapbook-style keepsake for each name.
I chose not to include most of the other suggestions from the [...]

Decoupaged Notebooks

Thursday, 13 November 2008, 17:40 | Category : Art, Bible, Handicrafts and Life Skills, History, Notebooking
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This was another of the projects we did during our Colonial Life unit.  It was super-easy and I loved how the notebooks turned out!

To begin, we found compostition notebooks (the kind where all the pages are sewn together with string and the covers are hard.)  I picked out several scrapbooking papers that complimented each other [...]

Bible Bowl

Friday, 16 May 2008, 5:08 | Category : Bible
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Our children have been part of a Bible Bowl team this year.  As skeptical as I am about children competing over God’s Word, they really have learned inside and out the material that was covered this year.  Since the group has decided to take a break next year, I wanted to be sure to grab [...]

The Peace Place

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 6:00 | Category : Bible, Character Training
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This is an idea that’s been mulling over in my mind since I first read Preschoolers and Peace’s blog Part 1 and Part 2.  The idea first originated at Holy Experience’s blog last April in a post called Making a Peace Place: Godly Anger Management for Children.

A peace place.  A place for my children (or myself) [...]