Live to Love With Jesus – Keynote by Norm Wakefield

This keynote was originally delivered on June 9, 2018 at Teach Them Diligently Columbus, OH. Experience Freedom and Joy in Satisfying Relationships as you learn the difference between a counterfeit love and Jesus’ love, two hindrances to the flow of love, and God’s provision for establishing loving relationships. Everyone wants the homeschooling experience to be […]

Summer School

What do we do about SUMMER when we homeschool? For some families, it's business as usual, continuing much of their same routine year round. For others, it's a wonderful time of complete break from school. For many more, there is a bit of a hybrid approach to those hot summer months. This week, let's discuss Summer school in home education.

How Do I Deal With Discouragement?

Discouragement is something that all of us deal with from time to time. This week, let's look at some different forms it takes and how we can deal with it practically and Biblically.

Long-Term Planning

After thinking through your big picture reason for why you are doing what you're doing, this week, we're going to look briefly at long term planning-- what are you looking for in your children and what pitfalls should you avoid as they are growing up?

What Are You Running Toward?

There has been a huge shift in homeschooling in general where more and more families are running away from something when they start. That type of a reason generally isn't sufficient to keep you in the game long-term. This week, we'll look at why you finding a bigger reason to homeschool to give us something we really should be running towards.

Summer Bucket List

While preparing for a Summer Bucket List video, the Lord redirected Leslie's thoughts to what needs to be FIRST priority on any list. This week, we're talking practically about how to know God better and more intimately this summer. That will set a solid foundation for all your discipleship efforts in the days ahead.

First Things First

While preparing for a Summer Bucket List video, the Lord redirected Leslie's thoughts to what needs to be FIRST priority on any list. This week, we're talking practically about how to know God better and more intimately this summer. That will set a solid foundation for all your discipleship efforts in the days ahead.

Raising Real Boys and Girls

This week, Leslie chats with Hal and Melanie Young of Raising Real Men to talk about raising BOTH boys and girls together. From birth, we all know they're different, so how should our parenting change from one to the other (or should it?) Check out this week's conversation for some great insights into that question. (There are some audio and video hiccups through this week's chat, so please be patient. The content was too good for us to scrap the conversation altogether!) :)

The Mind of a High School Boy

Get a peek into the relationship of a homeschool mom and her high school son. With graduation and college on the horizon, what are some of the most valuable lessons they've learned together?

Middle School to High School Transitions for Boys

Whether you are a Mom of Boys or not, you will want to take a few minutes to watch this week’s video, for you will get great insight into the mind of the middle school boy… from someone who was very recently a middle school boy.

Movement in our Homeschools

Sometimes it's just nice to know how to answer some of the questions we get as home educators. When it comes to allowing our children to move, homeschoolers are well ahead of the curve! Get the research and facts about the effect of movement in education and learn how well you are doing in this very critical area for your children. (I think you'll be very encouraged!)

Springtime In Our Homeschools

As the weather gets nicer, we have the opportunity to mix things up a bit in our homeschools and shake the winter blues away. This week we'll talk about some of those ideas as well as talk a bit about how to allow our children to live boldly, even when it causes fear for us parents.

Live Boldly! Part 1

Throughout 2018, we will be looking at how we can live our lives, parent our children, love our husbands, and manage our homes and homeschools BOLDLY as we are commanded to in Scripture. This week, we’ll kick off that conversation.

Live Boldy!

Live Boldly! This will be our overarching theme for 2018 and in January, we'll take a look at what the Bible tells us about how to do that before we introduce 2 other new series that will appear periodically throughout the year. So many exciting topics to talk about this year. I hope you won't miss a single week!