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 the others about chores and school, and they’re great, too. 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 had one kid, and the sc
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 first-grader and spend time with him. It is easy to teach a 3 or 4-year-old beginning reading with phonics flashcards, so
Question: “Sometimes I feel like my kids stumble out of bed, eat breakfast in their underwear, then take forever getting ready to do school. Of course we also have to clean up the kitchen which is just another thing to delay getting our day started. ”
Answer: When I was on the MOMYS (Mothers of Many Young Siblings, momys.com) email loop, I learned so very much from moms who had already been where I wa
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
See my ebook, His B.A. Was Only $8k for more information.
