Each child learns at his or her own pace.
Today’s report: We are thankful and amazed at how God is sustaining us through our three years of very hard things. He really is with us just as Psalm 23 says. Your prayers mean very much to us. We know…
Category Parenting
Thank God for Little Girls and Big Girls
The Bible tells us that God made us male and female. All of us who have reared one or more of each knows that both little boys and little girls give special blessings and have different needs. Today I’d like…
“Tell me about it.”
Several of our grandchildren enjoy art, as I do. Recently one of our out-of-town grandchildren artists sent me a text with a piece of art he had just finished. It reminded me of this photo I took early one foggy…
Created to Serve God and People
Between traveling to multiple homeschool conventions for years and years . . . On Ray’s birthday in a hotel in Denver during the Colorado homeschool convention . . . to numerous trips to Vanderbilt over the last almost three years,…
Every man has a bit of a little boy.
Today is our firstborn’s birthday. Happy Birthday, John! I looked back at the first time I wrote a blog post for February 24. It was in 2014 and we had just celebrated John’s birthday during a Notgrass History retreat. Familiarity…
Kind Actions and Words
Loving parents require obedience from their children. It’s one of the best ways I know to teach children that God’s rules matter. Back when Ray and I had children at home, we learned from various parenting classes. I remember one teacher contrasting nurture…