Can You Shelter a Child TOO Much?

by | Nov 29, 2006 | Raising Children

Taken from The Homeschool Minute. Used with permission. Do you “shelter” your children? That’s a bad word in some circles, we’re finding. Something is creeping into the church (and even the homeschooling community) and it isn’t biblical. It is an “anti-sheltering...

Visible Progress

by | Aug 28, 2006 | Raising Children

Taken from the blog of Julia Torgrimson. Used with permission. A year ago last spring, I was in a state of confusion. My state was due to my 4 yr. old son. I was waffling back and forth about whether I should have him tested for learning difficulties. There were some...

Quote from Lord Chesterfield

by | Jun 28, 2006 | Raising Children

An uninterrupted life of pleasure is as insipid as contemptible…A surfeited glutton, an emaciated sot, and an enervated rotten whoremaster never enjoy the pleasures to which they devote themselves; they are only so many human sacrifices to false...

Raising Girls

by | Jun 22, 2006 | Raising Children

Dear Laurie, I wonder if I could bother you to answer a few questions. One is with visiting the nursing home. This summer I took my 11-year-old daughter, 8-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter and 21-month-old son to the nursing home a few times. My oldest does not want...