Some of you have asked, “How do I get (keep) my child motivated?”
What you probably mean is, “How do I get my child to do the work
correctly without complaining?”.
 
Fact is, being motivated is more than just compliance. To motivate
a child is to teach the child to love learning.
The child must enjoy the process of learning. […]

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We had quite a storm here this past weekend. Not much rain, but a lot of wind. We feel blessed that it wasn’t much worse, as we’ve heard numerous reports of tornadoes touching down not too far away and causing great destruction here in Ohio and elsewhere in the midwest US.
Nonetheless, we did have some storm […]

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Are you looking for a math curriculum? Before you settle on one,
there’s something very important you should consider.
Most math curriculums, even those by Christian publishers, are
presenting an unbiblical worldview. Huh? How’s that again?
Isn’t math a “neutral” subject, not aligned with a political or
ideological grouping?
After all, the equation 1+1=2 works the same way for a Christian,
Muslim, […]

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 Hope all our friends in the USA had a great Memorial Day weekend. Brian’s Dad is a World War II vet, so it was a special day for us. He saw action mainly in the Phillippines, and contracted malaria during battle.
You may be surprised to know that malaria actually killed more U.S. soldiers than the […]

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Remember using a typewriter for letters, term papers, and what not? OK, so you’re not THAT old. We’re not saying whether WE remember those days or not . We will admit to using a stand-alone word processor for some years, but that’s all you’re going to get out of us.
Now, the state-of-the-art is word-processing […]

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Where is the spring going? Seems like we’re mowin’ down one week after another with reckless abandon, and this year is flying by already as we approach the end of the ‘traditional’ school year here in the northern hemisphere.
Mowing a lot of grass, too, now that the spring rains have kicked it into high gear. And […]

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The spring rains have finally come to northwest Ohio. After all the snow and rain we had in February and March, it was hard to believe that it was actually getting a little too dry. But now everything is greening up like it’s supposed to.
Hope we haven’t put some kind of jinx on ourselves by wishing […]

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