What To Do When Homeschool Gets Hard
Usually, when you ask a homeschool parent about homeschooling, she will tell you how wonderful it is and proceed to list every benefit homeschooling offers. In fact, she’ll probably list things that are not true for her personally but she…
Creation Museum: An Honest Review (2022)
During my family’s trip earlier this year to Ken Ham’s Family Homeschool Experience at the Ark Encounter, we took a day to visit the Creation Museum. It was the second time we had been there, and we enjoyed visiting this…
The Ark Encounter: An Honest Review (2022)
Earlier this year I reviewed Ken Ham’s first Family Homeschool Experience at the Ark Encounter. My focus was primarily on the event, but today I would like to discuss the Ark Encounter as a destination. WARNING: I’m going to be…
Christian, Should You Shelter Your Child?
I was born in the 1980’s when sheltering children wasn’t really a thing. I came home on the bus to an empty apartment every day after school, left on a Saturday morning to play with friends with no instructions besides…
Large Family Homeschooling: How I Do It
Having a large family gets attention. We don’t even have to be doing anything unique or spectacular to receive more looks and comments than smaller families. I guess we just stick out. For example, as we packed up our things…
Confession: I’m An Angry Mom
If you meet me on any given day, you’ll probably see me throwing my head back in some sort of laugh cackle. My leadership style is laidback, and I accommodate people’s preferences fairly easily. As a mother, however, the ugliness…
The 10 Best Parenting Tips I Have Received
My father recently asked for my parenting secret during a phone conversation. After I stopped uncontrollably laughing at him, I realized he wasn’t joking. I explained his grandparent goggles were blurring his vision concerning my children. They are normal kids…
10 Habits Of Good Christian Fathers
Our current culture diminishes fathers’ inherent value in families. Modern feminists choose to raise kids without a man in their lives, usurp their husbands in the home concerning child-rearing, and/or vilify men who fit the “cisgender” label. Fathers, however, are…
Is Children’s Ministry Worth The Effort?
A few years ago, I would have said that children’s ministry is a waste of time. I understand why that makes me sound like a jaded, single, child-hating twenty-something. However, I’m a married woman with five children who is turning…
Christians, You Can’t Support Abortion
On May 2, 2022 the unthinkable happened. A leaked draft of the majority opinion from the Supreme Court regarding overturning Roe v. Wade spread across the internet. Let’s ignore the serious issues revolving around leaked Supreme Court documents and focus…