Honor: is it a matter of being people oriented vs. task oriented?
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As I’ve mentioned, I am reading Turansky and Miller’s Say Goodbye right now, so I wanted to keep talking about it 🙂 In Say Goodbye, there is an overwhelming theme…
Book Talk
Equal is Less
I am in Chapter 4 of Siblings Without Rivalry, and she is bringing up some more very interesting points. They are well worth discussing, IMHO 😉 I told them all…
Honor vs. Respect
I am reading Turansky and Millers’ Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids right now for a reading group for homeschool moms that I…
The Beatitudes
Matthew 5 The Beatitudes 1Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2and he began to teach them…
Comparing our children
Never compare yourself to others. You’ll become either vain or bitter. I’m reading the chapter on comparing siblings in Siblings Without Rivalry and it is making me think. As she…
Romancing Your Husband
A few years ago, my mother-in-law gave me this book and deeply encouraged me to read it. I was a bit because, hel-lo, I was a newlywed and plenty of…
Watching over little hearts
Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. I’ve been going back through Heartfelt Discipline, and just couldn’t pass up the…
Trains of thought
From Home Education by Charlotte Mason (from the chapter “Habit is Ten Natures”) …it is as if every familiar train of thought made a rut in the nervous substance of…
Life goals
As you can see in my VoluntarySimplicity post, I have recently been thinking a lot about what is important to me and what is just a waste of my time.…
Voluntary simplicity
Contrary to some reports, simplicity is not about deprivation. Those practicing simplicity in North America typically are quite comfortable by global standards. They only thing they’ve given up is the…
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