I love to hear my children praise each other, but too often I hear criticism. I think that is normal when people live in the same home!
One thing that has worked for us is to have Praising Contests. We certainly still have bickering and criticism, but hopefully it helps the atmosphere of our home to at least have a praise once in a while from a sibling!
We have a laminated page on the fridge that says:
Micah:__
ACE – We mostly use these cute booklets for Math, but we use them for other subjects, too. Especially if you have many children, do not make homeschooling too hard on yourself! This is an example of a great curriculum that makes your life much easier.I wouldn’t recommend a Christian school that uses this curriculum because you have to sit in cubicles all day and do nothing creative! But they a
I have a child who is dyslexic and has ADHD. Two books that have really helped me are:
Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your Add Child by Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons
and
Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz
(also for anybody with reading difficulties)
Dr. Shaywitz suggests going back over the more difficult phonics concepts such as prefixes, suffixes, dipthongs,
Be a missionary!
On the mission field we had some great experiences. We traveled, saw many countries, ministered as a family, and learned how to be best friends with each other.
There really were no peers really because Japanese kids went to cram school in the evenings and had public school on Saturdays. Our kids didn’t notice that they were being deprived of peers because they had each other to play with
We have never stayed on schedule all day, haha! But the schedule does help, and I am so thankful for the scheduling kit I got from titus2.org. It is called Managers of Their Homes. I have not tried the others yet about chores and school, but I’m sure they’re great. Some moms look at it and feel like it is not good for them since they are a small family. But I disagree! I was a mess when I only
Chapter 11 — “He Lived What He Taught Us”
“My Father did not push us to prayer, he led us–first by the consistent example of being a pray-er himself, then by asking the blessing (a phrase he thought more accurate than ‘saying grace’) at meals, and by gathering all of us together after breakfast for family prayers, as described in Mother’s article. I do not say that we
Homeschooling:I try to spend one-on-one time with our youngest child before I start the more intense schooling with the others so she sees that she is important to me. Then she can face the day secure and ready to obey and be separated from me a little. Then I move up the ladder to the other preschooler and spend time with him. It is easy to teach a 3 or 4-year-old beginning reading with phonics flashcard
Q: What do you do about situations with siblings when one tattle-tales, yet what the sibling they’re tattling on is doing probably isn’t best. It’s like, I don’t want to reward the tattle-tale behavior, but also, how do I let a sibling that was doing something *wrong* get away with it? It’s very tough and I pray for leading in this. Let me know any thoughts you have–experience, e
Chapter 23 “Encouragement”
“Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire.
Let me not sink to be a clod–
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.
(Toward Jerusalem, p. 94)”
Chapter 25 “Work and Play”
“‘I commend the enjoyment of life,” says the teacher in Ecclesiaste
Our kids like to read. We have soooooo many books, and they just enjoy perusing through all sorts of them. We are certainly not the experts on this subject, but here are a few ways that we guess they started getting interested in books.
1. One of the main reasons our kids read is that we don’t have our tv hooked up and don’t have video games.
2. One way to get them to read is to take them to a big