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Back to School Supply List: 21 Resources

‘Tis the season for supply lists. Unfortunately, the back to school supply list can really add up! More than one mom has approached her homeschool list or classroom list with excitement, only to walk away with a grown up case of test anxiety. As a teacher and a mom, I want to encourage you to keep a few things in mind, if your list has you stressed. Your kids don’t need to have the latest and greatest option out there (= most expensive) If the list is long, prioritize what’s needed most (= a key life “lesson” for all of …

Easing Your Kids’ Back-to-School Nerves

We’ve all experienced the first day anxiety of something…You know that YUCKY feeling you get on the first day back to school when your stomach is turned upside down doing somersaults like it’s in the Olympics. As a former school teacher, I have seen that agonizing look of fear on so many faces on the first day of school. You know that YUCKY feeling you get on the first day back to school – 10 ways to ease your child’s nerves Click To Tweet Believe it or not, most teachers go to great extremes to help ease their students’ …

Fighting Teacher Trouble with the PTA

I hope you won’t have teacher trouble this year, but you might. The first conversations of the school year may come after looking at the class lists on school windows, opening mail, or signing up online. You and your kids might discover you’re assigned a teacher or coach you dread. Sweet mama-friend, you may be in for “teacher trouble.” Moms do their best to be positive and patient, letting the new school year get going, but we still might find we’re in for trouble. How can we take action and be godly at the same time? PRAY through teacher trouble …

5 Easy Back-to-School Traditions

Today, I wanted to share a great re-post from last year by Lindsey Bell because SOME OF YOU have children who will be starting back to school tomorrow. Soooo… whether you homeschool, your children are in public, private or virtual school, here are some great ideas to help you begin some back-to-school traditions. My oldest child begins kindergarten this month. (And yes, that is the sound of quiet crying you hear through your computer!) Last year, when he began preschool, I wanted to make his first day special. What I didn’t want to do, though, was stress myself out. I …

How to Easily Teach Foundational Truths of the Christian Faith

“Mom, who made me? Why did God make me? What does it mean to glorify God?” Is there an easy way to break down and teach the foundational, basic truths of the Christian faith to our children? Yes, there is! I pray this post will make this intimidating task easy for you! The Bible reminds us in 2 Timothy 3:15 eternal fruit will be produced from our parenting responsibility: “…from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” (NASB) Let …

The ABC’s of Vacation Bible School

I was born into a family where “vacation,” “Bible” and “school” didn’t go together. Before my parents began a relationship with Jesus, the Bible was a way to ruin our vacation! But once our family learned about God’s plan for moms, dads and kids, summer became a special window of opportunity to grow in faith. It’s a season when signs start popping up on street corners advertising “Vacation Bible School” for kids. If you haven’t been part of a church community for long, you might wonder why VBS should get prime real estate on your summer family calendar. What’s so …

20 Memory Making Ideas for Summertime Fun

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1 I love the summer! How about you? Everything is alive and lively. The days are longer, the air smells sweeter, the kids are out of school and it’s time to play! Unfortunately, when my children were young, I often found school was knocking on the door of our summer fun before we really got to enjoy the season that seemed to all-too-quickly slip through our fingers. Making memories with our kids means we have to intentionally plan our days; purposely putting some things on …

5 Easy Ways To Encourage Summer Reading

Summer. Just the smell of sunblock can bring all the images of summer rushing in. Thoughts of swimming, grilling, snow cones, watermelon, late nights and lazy mornings come flooding in. And, of course, the joy of freedom from government tyranny, errr, I mean school. And for our family, there is one more really important part of summer – books. We are readers all year long, but summer kicks it up a notch. My ten-year-old daughter has been scouring Pinterest for fifth grade summer reading lists for weeks. She’s compiling her own this year (which means I won’t have to fight her …

Why Homeschooling May Be an Option

Have you ever gotten that strange look or sly comment when you say you are a homeschooling momma? Yup. I sure have. As a former middle and high school teacher with experience teaching at both public and private schools, I have firsthand experience of the ins and outs of our nation’s school system. If it works for your family, why not take the opportunity to ignore the masses and educate to your own drum? So here goes… *You can create your own curriculum to suit what’s best for your child. You can avoid the cookie cutter schooling experience to meet state standards that are overly-generalized for the average …

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