Homeschool Update Archives

How to Equip Your Son to Fight Spiritual Battles

We are surrounded by spiritual battles, both inward and outward. We must prepare our sons for battle as we prepare them for every other aspect of...

How to Equip Your Son to Fight Spiritual Battles

7 Scriptures That Show How Important Grandparents Are

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor,...

7 Scriptures That Show How Important Grandparents Are

First Steps to Homeschooling

Broadly speaking, there are three steps you need to take in order to start homeschooling: know your state's laws and regulations; develop your...

First Steps to Homeschooling

7 Ways to Talk to Your Kids about Immigration

In my new book You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees & Immigrants Because God First Loved Us, I share how the way we respond to the immigrant and...

7 Ways to Talk to Your Kids about Immigration

Should You Force Your Kids to Go to Church?

If your kids don't want to go to church, should you force them or let them make that decision themselves? What is best for their relationship with...

Should You Force Your Kids to Go to Church?

Noticing the Diversity of Gifts in Children

When I was in fourth grade, I was sent to the central office one day for a battery of tests. I remember I had fun playing with some blocks, but...

Noticing the Diversity of Gifts in Children

4 Ways to Be a Grace-Focused Parent

The story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 teaches parents 4 ways to be focused on grace as you parent your child.

4 Ways to Be a Grace-Focused Parent

How to Exercise Faith When Allowing Independence

My son’s little legs raced across the field as his kite bounced along on the ground behind him. A gust of wind caught the kite’s corner and lifted...

How to Exercise Faith When Allowing Independence

10 Things I Hope Never Go Back to Normal after COVID-19

I’ll admit up front what most would agree to—2020 hasn’t been my favorite year. The changes brought about by the pandemic—my husband’s job...

10 Things I Hope Never Go Back to Normal after COVID-19

4 Certain Ways to Know You Enable Your Children

Since our idols tend to blind us from reality and truth, perhaps the best way to evaluate whether our actions are harming our kids is to examine...

4 Certain Ways to Know You Enable Your Children

5 Things Moms Can Stop Feeling Guilty About

Chances are you struggle with, have struggled with, or know someone who is struggling with one of these top guilt producers in moms:

5 Things Moms Can Stop Feeling Guilty About

Does the Bible Say Spanking Is OK or Is it Sinful?

Spanking is a sin when done out of anger. The Word of God says to not sin in your anger, in other words, reacting out of your sin nature is against...

Does the Bible Say Spanking Is OK or Is it Sinful?

4 Burdensome Lies Mothers Tell Themselves

“I’m going crazy,” Sally confessed, “do we vaccinate our kids or not. Do we home school or we don’t?”Sally and millions of moms today fret and...

4 Burdensome Lies Mothers Tell Themselves

3 Encouragements for Parents Who Are Utterly Exhausted

The early months with a newborn are not the only years of exhaustion. Until the elusive extra-long vacation arrives on the backs of magical fairy...

3 Encouragements for Parents Who Are Utterly Exhausted

How to Encourage Your Family at the Dinner Table

What if I told you about one simple trick to change the tone of your house?

How to Encourage Your Family at the Dinner Table

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