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The temptation for many new home educators is to run out and buy as much curriculum as they can afford and immediately start their eight-hour homeschool day in a dedicated room filled with desks, bulletin boards, and fresh paint.  Before you fall prey to the old public school mentality, take a few moments to sit down with a cup of ...

Knowing your child’s interest can help you to stir up some enthusiasm. Learning is more interesting when it becomes relevant to real life or can be tied to something about which he is passionate (even if it’s just the “fascination of the week”). In The Christian Home School, Gregg Harris refers to this as “delight-directed” learning; Marilyn Howshall expands the ...

Paddington 2 writer and director Paul King calls himself a fan of Charlie Chaplin films, Pixar movies and the Wallace and Gromit clay animation series – all projects that feature innocent humor that can make the whole family laugh. Such clean humor was his goal for the 2014 hit Paddington (PG) and also for the new movie Paddington 2 (PG), ...

Heather Avis’ journey into parenthood didn’t go as planned. But in hindsight, she wouldn’t have it any other way. She and her husband struggled with infertility until God led them down the path of adoption. Yet even that had a surprise, when the couple felt led to adopt not one but two children with Down syndrome. Today, they are the ...

Phineas is a hard-working husband and father who has a flare for creativity and innovation. Right now, though, he’s unemployed and just needs a job to feed his two daughters in 1800s America. Desperate, he risks everything and borrows $10,000 to open a downtown museum of “oddities.” It’ll have everything not seen in other museums – even wax figures and ...

The start of a fresh year means new goals and aspirations for many of us.  Every year, I start to think about the things I want to accomplish in the new year.  I usually divide up my goals and aspirations into categories such as physical (exercise more, maybe even sign up for a half-marathon), spiritual (more time in prayer and ...

INGREDIENTS: 4 quarts cold water 2-3 cups granulated sugar (depending on how sweet you want it) 3 tablespoons root beer extract (see note) 1-2 pounds food-grade dry ice, broken into pieces (use the smaller amount if you want it to dissolve quickly and the greater amount if you want it to foam and bubble while serving) DIRECTIONS: In a large ...

People have asked what we find so fascinating about researching family genealogy and uncovering clues about generations past. It’s not the walk through the old obscure graveyards with barely readable headstones. It’s not digging through yellowed dusty files of centuries old land records. And, it’s certainly not the frustration found in poorly recorded census records. No, actually we have found ...

Not long ago, parents and children could sit in front of the TV and watch a fairytale-based show together, knowing that the program was produced for and aimed at kids. No longer. Today, Hollywood is producing fairytale-type TV shows geared toward adults – full of graphic violence, sexuality and profanity. On this week’s episode of Words of Wisdom, we talk ...

Nazi Germany is on the move, but everyone in 1940 Britain can rest easy. Winston Churchill is finally at the helm as prime minister. If it were only that simple. The courageous and resolute Churchill we’ve learned about in history books is certainly courageous and resolute in Darkest Hour (PG-13) – a biographical movie now in theaters – but he ...