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Giving Teens the Freedom (and Guidance) to Succeed Financially

Originally aired as a Facebook Live, this video will give you some great insights and ideas for how to teach your children to succeed financially. Linda Carlson and Vere Reynolds from Evangelical Christian Credit Union are part of the Homeschool Financial Counselor Team here at Teach Them Diligently, and they shared some incredibly helpful ideas […]

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Frank Talk About Parenting In Light Of The Internet

In this interview, Leslie and Sam Black talk very frankly about the dangers facing our children today with the wide availability of internet access as well as discussing great tools and principles to help you equip your children to stand on their own.

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Parenting for the Heart (and Speech) of your child

Ginger Hubbard joins Leslie this week to talk about Biblical parenting and how to train your child to think and speak biblically. They will talk about specific steps in taming your child’s tongue and equipping them to be godly and mature in their talk.

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Hospitable Homeschooling – Interview With Jen Schmidt

Opening our home is an amazing way to enrich our families and our homeschools and to serve others– even when the idea of doing so may seem completely overwhelming with everything that’s going on. This week, get inspired to be a hospitable homeschooler, and get some great ideas for how to do that and just how much of a blessing it will turn out to be.

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Teaching Your Children About Money – Interview with Linda Carlson

As parents, we all want to give our children a much better foundation than we had ourselves. That’s one of the reasons we homeschool them, for we know that by tailoring their education and taking every opportunity afforded to us to point them to Jesus, we are giving them a huge head start to be prepared for whatever God has in store for the next phase of their life. This week, we’re chatting with Linda Carlson about some great ideas and opportunities that are available for us to teach our children sound financial principles that will reap benefits in their lives for years to come. (And you may even learn some yourself!) 🙂

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Why Should Dad Be Involved In Homeschooling?

I told you last week that when David and I did my time inventory, he got a much clearer view of what I do each day—and a much greater appreciation for homeschooling. He was already a spectacular homeschool dad, but he has learned quite a bit himself through the years, and I talked him into sharing his heart with your today. Feel free to grab your husband and join us for this week’s discussion.

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The Surprising Benefits of Building A Time Inventory

One of the questions that so many people ask me is “how can I possibly get everything done in a day?” When you take a birds-eye view of educating your children while still keeping them fed, clean, and nurtured– and STILL managing your home and being a wife, it can get overwhelming. This week, let’s look at time and try to find ways to use it better, so we can always have it available for what is truly important in our day.

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Don’t jump to conclusions: The Importance of Questions in Conversations

Have you noticed how often we jump to conclusions in this day and age? We read a headline and fill in the blanks with whatever we THINK goes there without taking the time to dig deeper to find out what really happened and why. In parenting, we can often do the same thing if we’re not careful. This week, let’s chat about the importance of not jumping to conclusions and how taking the time to have even difficult conversations with our children can prove to be an incredible discipleship time.

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Questions Moms Ask – Homeschooling Multiple Levels

There are so many things to learn about homeschooling, parenting, and managing your household. This week, I’ve asked a couple of TTD favorites, Sonya Shafer and Jessica Hager, to answer some questions about homeschooling multiple ages at once.

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Summer School

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Summer Bucket List

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.

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Biography of God

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.

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Raising Real Boys and Girls

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!) 🙂

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The Mind of a High School Boy

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?

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Movement in our Homeschools

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!)

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Springtime in our Homeschools

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.

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What Discipleship-Focused Parenting DOESN’T Look Like

We have talked a lot about how to raise our children God’s way, but what can we learn about how not to do it? This week, we’ll discuss what discipleship-focused parenting does not look like.

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Raising Children of Promise

Is there really a way to know God’s perfect plan for parenting children His way? Is there really a parenting manual to be found? Let’s discuss that this week as we chat about Raising Children of Promise.

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Preparing for Adulthood (Interview with Carol Topp)

Leslie is joined this week by Carol Topp as they talk about Raising Adults. This conversation is insightful and incredibly helpful as Carol and Leslie discuss raising teens, when you should start preparing your children for different elements of growing up, and so much more!

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