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 Homeschooling is the solution to a complicated problem. This problem should not be so complicated, but problems that has come from sin has made it complicated.  Parents are commanded by God to teach their children. The  Bible makes clear that education is to begin in the home (Gen. 18:19; Deut. 6:7; Prov. 22:6; Eph. 6:4; 2 Tim. 1:5; 3:15).   For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they  shall keep the way of the  Lord , to do justice and judgment; that the  Lord  may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Gen 18:19 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deut. 6:7 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the L

 Many people including me say that we trust Jesus. But do we really trust him? I have been thinking about different people in history. The disciples for instance really put their trust in Jesus. They risked everything to spread his Word. The Apostle Paul thought nothing of his life. He was only concerned with reaching the lost for Jesus. There have been countless missionaries who relied on Jesus for everything from where to live to what to eat. My daughter recently was learning about George Muller. He was a pastor who did not even except a salary but lived on donations. He then opened and successfully ran an orphanage without any dependable income. He relied on God to house, feed, and cloth all of those children. So, do we really trust that Jesus will give us what we need? We are called to follow, trust, and obey Jesus. A wise pastor said, "God does not call the qualified, but equips the called." Basically, God does not want anyone to think that they can do it withou

 Children are in need of learning basic life skills. In the effort to help them be better able to keep up with technology, many people have forgotten that children also need to learn basic skills. A computer cannot do everything for you. So many teens and young adult get to college, and they still need someone to wash their clothes, make appointments for them, and cook their food. This is ridiculous. I am sorry but a bright young adult should be able to figure out how to do basic things.  The lack of these skills demonstrates a lack of reading comprehension skills.  Think about cooking. There are countless cookbooks written in very basic language for children. Please go to a library and check one out for your teens. Here is a list of some of my favorite ones:  Betty Crocker's  cook   book  for boys and girls. Kids cook! : 100+ super-easy, delicious recipes / American girl around the world cookbook  Get  cooking  /  -- Sam Stern's get  cooking Kids cook 1-2-3 : recipes for young

       When I was about 7 years old, I got a beautiful pair of white boots. I really liked those boots. I wore them everywhere. One day I even wore them outside to play. I liked to ride my bike. I would ride my bike all over the yard. This day was no different.      My mom had been inside doing housework all morning. I had been outside playing all morning. She had gotten to a stopping point and came outside. She had not gotten far from the front porch when she froze. She saw there on the ground a rattle snake. It was about 10 inches long. It was laying in the well-worn path that I had make with my bike. She also saw my boot print on its head.      My mom called me over and asked me about the snake. I asked, "What snake?" She then showed me the snake with my boot print on it. It is amazing that I had apparently killed the snake before the snake had a chance to strike without me ever seeing the snake.  Thankfully God is always watching. He looks after his children even when we

  When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parent’s divorce was finalized on my 4 th birthday in September. Then in Oct of the same year, my dad was involved in an 18-wheeler accident. A car had drove under the flatbed trailer. His neck was broken. He was out of work with no where to go. My mom let him come back and sleep on the couch. In December, my mom fell and broke her back. She was in the hospital through April of the next year. Now neither had a job. The house note was only $200 a month, but it might as well have been a million. Neither one of my parents could work. My dad tried to work hauling pup wood, but with having to take care of me with no help, it was hard. We didn’t have any family to come help. We could not afford childcare. Somehow even during this time, we paid the house note, had lights, and ate. At the end of April, my mom was able to come home from the hospital. However, they had waited too long to do the surgery. Her sciatic nerve in her left l

Don’t ever drive faster than you angel can fly or drive. It was around September of 2008. My dad was in the hospital with heart problems. He was needing a stint put it. Many years earlier, my parents had divorced. My dad had horses at his place that had not been feed. As I was getting ready to leave, my dad mentions the horses to me. I agree to see about them. Since it was closer to go the back roads, I start off through the back roads. I am driving a little bit too fast when something tells me I need to slow down. I slow a little bit but not enough. Soon after, I hit a pothole and flip the car. As the car is flipping, I cry out, “Please, God, let the car land upright.” The car flips, according to the marks on the ground, about three times. Thankfully, it landed right-side up. However, it did take out a large portion of a cast iron fence. I am scared to say the least about the most. I know that very few cars come this way. I cannot find my purse or my phone. I look up and see a w

  We are all busy. Homeschooling parents are not exception to this rule. I have created a way to keep up with lesson plans, grades, and attendance on in one. All you have to do is download this free doc. Save 4 copies for each subject. I for each of the four 9 weeks. Then type your lesson plan into the place under the heading assignment. As your child completes each assignment put the date. That is your attendance. If the assignment is for a grade put the grade. At the end of the 9 weeks average the grades.  So here is the link to the free  Homeschool Lesson plan and record keeping . While you are there feel free to check out some of my other resources. 

   Homeschooling Resources 1. Easy Peasy All-in-one Homeschool:  Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool – A complete, free online Christian homeschool curriculum for your family and mine (allinonehomeschool.com) This is a great place for beginner homeschoolers. It has everything that you need to begin with. I still use this site, and I have been homeschooling for about 12 years now. I like that you don't have to buy anything- just paper and ink. If you live near a library, you sometimes can print there for free.  2.  Free Homeschool Curriculum - Freedom Homeschooling Links to all sorts of homeschooling resources.  3. Library Don't forget to check-out your local library. They have tons of books. Check there before you buy any book.  4.  Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg If the book is a bit old, check here. It is free to use. and you don't have to create yet another account.  5.  Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Home Great for K-5th. Has a wonderful poetry section and i

       Many years ago, my dad was coming down the side of a mountain in an 18-wheeler. He as a long-haul truck driver. It was late at night. He often drove at night to avoid getting stuck in traffic. You did not get paid for sitting still in traffic.      My mom was at home with me. We were both sleeping. She was awakened from her sleep. She felt that something was terribly wrong, but she could not have imagined what was wrong.  So, she started fervently praying for my dad.      My dad knew exactly what was wrong. The load had shifted and the straps securing the load had broken. The trailer was in danger of pulling the truck off the side of the mountain.      From the moment that my mom started praying, an angel appeared that looked similar to me with long blond hair. My dad said that he could see her in the side mirrors. When the trailer tilted one way, she would hold it up. When it started to tilt the other way, she went to the other side and held that side up. All the way down the m

 We all want our children to be the best that they can be. We want them to learn and grow. However, sometimes things don't go quite as planned. Today I want to talk about two things that could be the problem. These two things go hand in hand. It is eye hand coordination and small muscle strength in the hands. Both the eye and the hands have muscles. As we all know muscle need to be exercised to be strong and healthy. However, most people forget about the eyes and the hands.  Even if your child is not having problems, it would be a good idea to check for problems and even do some of the activities to help prevent problems. Symptoms of these problems include but are not limited to:  poor reading skills poor writing skills avoidance of schoolwork not being about to catch a ball not being about to kick a ball not being about to hit a ball with a bat running into things not putting things completely on a surface (such as a cup half on and half off of a table) frequently knocking over th

 Prayer According to Jesus, His House is to be a house of Prayer. You can read this for yourself in Matthew 21:13 Jesus said to them, “It is written [in Scripture], ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.” He was quoting from  Isaiah 56:7 All these I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]? When you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour your body becomes the house "temple" of the Lord. He says that his house shall be called a house of prayer.  In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 it says "be unceasing and persistent in prayer;" in the Amplified Bible. In

Creation Week (From Genesis chapter 1) Day 1 God said, "Let there be light" and there was light. He then divided the light from the darkness. Even from the beginning, God made a distinction between light and darkness.  Day 2 God divided the waters from the waters. In other words, he put in the firmament (sky). This means that at one time there was water above the sky.  Day 3 On this day God caused the water on earth to be gathered together so that dry land could appear. At this time God gave boundaries to the water. "And marked for it My [appointed] boundary  And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],  And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther.  And here your proud waves shall stop’?" Job 38:10-11 Day 4 This rest of the solar system was created on this day. God created the sun, moon, stars, and what we now call planets. However, he even had a purpose for creating all of this. In Genesis  1:14-18 it says, "Then God said, “Let there be light-beare

 In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.  This literal creation was done in 7 literal days with God resting on the 7th day as an example for us to follow.  One of the 10 commandments tells us to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11 This commandment is just as relevant now as it was then. The Israelites had a problem remembering their creator. We have a problem remembering that our creator made the earth just as he said that he did. We have allowed the Theory of Evolution to

  Introduction to the Old Testament Time Periods In the Old Testament there are 4 major time periods. These 4 time periods span a time period of around 3600 years.  Innocence Conscience The Patriarchs Law and Prophets 1. The time of Innocence was the time that Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden.  2. The time of the Conscience spans the time from the fall of man to Abraham. 3. The time of the Patriarchs goes from Abraham to Moses. 4. The time of the Law and Prophets goes from Moses to Abraham.  Every event in the Old Testament can be placed into one of these 4 big time periods.  Knowing these time periods can help us to organize everything that we are learning into a logical order.  Books of the Old Testament There are 36 books in the Old Testament. They are organized into the books of the law, history, poetry, and prophecy.  Inspired by God But understand this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is  a matter  of  or  comes from one’s own [personal or special] interpretati

 The world has gone crazy. I look around and don't understand all of what is going on anymore. Things that used to be more or less written in stone is being questioned and, in some cases, throw out like yesterday's garbage.  This is sad on many levels. It shows just how many people are not rooted and grounded in the word of God. It shows that insanity that is taking place. It shows that we are closer to the return of Jesus than we were a few years ago.  However, everything taken place is only a symptom of the real problem. The majority of the people stopped reading the Word of God. They started just relying what the preacher said on Sunday. Now instead of the people needing and getting meat they need milk again. The milk and the meat symbolize different levels of knowledge. Jesus said that "... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." ( Matthew 4:4). In order to grow strong and be able to stand against the insanity