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Holding on to Faith While Homeschooling: an Interview with Kendra Fletcher

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February 23, 2016 by Melanie Wilson Leave a Comment

Many of us began homeschooling because of our faith. I know I did. Homeschooling wasn’t my idea or even my preference. But somewhere along the way we can get confused about the promise of homeschooling. Today my guest is Kendra Fletcher of the Homeschooling in Real Life podcast and we will discuss Holding onto Faith While Homeschooling. I loved this interview so much that I’ve been telling everyone about it. I think you’ll love it too.

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Links

Homeschooling in Real Life

Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network

Help for Homeschooled Teens with ADD

EnrichmentStudies.com

Smart but Scattered Teens by Richard Guare and Peg Dawson

Preschoolers and Peace blog

Preschoolers and Peace book

Circle Time

Lost and Found: Losing Religion and Finding Faith

HomeschoolingIRL on Facebook

Next Week

The topic is Homeschooling Boys: Is it Really Different?

Have a happy homeschool week!

Filed Under: The Homeschool Sanity Show Tagged With: Christian homeschooling, faith, HomeschooingIRL, homeschooling, Kendra Fletcher

MBFLP – Two Vans, 300 Fans, and One Great God

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March 30, 2015 by Hal and Melanie Young Leave a Comment

We’re just back from a 3600-mile trip to North Dakota and back. It wasn’t our longest trip but it was certainly one of our most eventful …

When we lost oil pressure in Wisconsin, we wondered if God was sending us a message.

When the engine seized in the middle of an Iowa intersection, we didn’t know the outcome.

But when we returned home with a “new” low mileage van, thanks to a providential God and the generosity of His people, we realized the message was – KEEP GOING!

Hear the whole story in this special edition of Making Biblical Family Life Practical!

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Filed Under: Making Biblical Family Life Practical Tagged With: breakdown, faith, love of the brethren, perseverance, Providence, vans

MBFLP – Millennials, Church, and Family

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February 2, 2015 by Hal and Melanie Young Leave a Comment

Studies and research on the Millennial Generation, those in their twenties and thirties now, can pretty disturbing. Indications are this group of young adults is moving away from their parents’ values and institutions in ways we haven’t seen since the sixties — and in some areas, making a radical shift in the nation’s culture. What does this mean for Christian homeschooling parents? Can we gain insight into our parenting and educational process by looking at the results of the families just ahead of ours? You may be surprised at what we learned from the Gen2 Survey released at the Gen2 Conference in late January!

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Filed Under: Making Biblical Family Life Practical Tagged With: Christianity, faith, father, Millennials, mother, parenting, Relationships

MBFLP – Boy Question Free-For-All

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September 29, 2014 by Hal and Melanie Young Leave a Comment

Another of our popular sessions answering your questions about raising sons —

How can you encourage sons to pursue their individual gifts?
How do you keep rough-and-tumble from coming fighting and bullying?
How do you teach your sons not to look down on their sisters for being girls?
How can you help make your faith their own?
What do you do about embarrassing behaviors in public?

And more!

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Filed Under: Making Biblical Family Life Practical Tagged With: appreciating girls, belief, bullying, embarrassing behavior, faith, fighting, Gifts, wrestling

Destination: Inspiration Episode 12- Who was Maya Angelou? A Tribute to The Phenomenal Woman

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June 10, 2014 by mediaangels Leave a Comment

Hey, Friends!

If you can get through the echo (I’m working on it- LOL) in my latest podcast, I know you’ll be blessed to hear the words of this phenomenal woman, Maya Angelou. I’m sure you’ll find her life and words inspirational for you and your homeschool! Scroll below for some inspiring video footage of Maya Angelou. Click the little grey arrow at the bottom to listen!

Outside of scripture, my grandma, my fourth grade teacher Mr. Freesman, and my friend/ fellow poet and co-author of my new Words With Wings Poetry Curriculum, De, Maya Angelou is the biggest inspiration for my words. Ever.

What is the craziest is how she had SO many roles- like me. I guess it’s the life of a poet. Or a Renaissance Woman. Funny, a friend gave my that title of Renaissance Woman years ago, and it’s just stuck. Felt right. After I visited her website after her passing, diving deeper into Who Was Maya Angelou, I see those words. Right there. Global Renaissance Woman.

Here’s a screenshot and link straight to her page.

While my words are not known globally like hers, I pray that someday they will impact as many as hers did. And I pray you find a bit of inspiration on today’s poetic tribute to the life of a truly Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou. Global Renaissance Woman.

As promised, I’ll share some of the links I mention in the podcast below. Here’s a link and a free download to the poem, #Reset I read and wrote just a few weeks before her passing.

Blessings for your journey, and may your words take flight.

Jen

An except from the 1993 Inaugural Poem of President Bill Clinton, On the Pulse of Morning:

(Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.)

“Here on the pulse of this new day

You may have the grace to look up and out

And into your sister’s eyes,

Into your brother’s face, your country

And say simply

Very simply

With hope

Good morning.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59xGmHzxtZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQzjit7b1w

“The People’s Poet”- CBS News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKoPCOMSto

Phenomenal Woman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFfhH83_RE

And Still I Rise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0

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Filed Under: Destination: Inspiration Tagged With: Christian, Destination:Inspiration, faith, homeschool, how to write a poem, inspiration, Jen Reyneri, maya angelou, podcast, poem, reset, tribute, who was maya angelou

American Family – Values – Freedom – Faith

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January 15, 2014 by mediaangels 2 Comments

What does the constitution have to do with it – allot! In this session Professor Wilson discusses the IRS attempt at regulating non-profit organizations such as the American Family Association in order to squelch fliers, tracks, and pamphlets with voting records and other kinds of handouts that help tax payers.

Terminology such as “writ of certiorari” and more

The articles and amendments discussed:

Article 2: Section 2

Amendment 10 was compared to Amendment 14 as it pertains to a District Judge shooting down Okalahoma’s voters ruling that marriage is between a man and a woman (Judge said it was a mater of the equal protection law).

Article 1: Section 5 – Clause 4

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Filed Under: Current Issues and The Constitution Tagged With: abortion, affordable health care, Amercan politics, American Government, American History, class action law suit, Constitution, Current Events, faith, Felice Gerwitz, freedom of the US, homeschool, homeschool government class, homeschool podcasts, homeschool radio, Rights of Americans, Teens, the constitution of the US, United States Consitution, values

Overcoming Insecurity with Deb Wolf

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December 3, 2013 by Melanie Wilson 2 Comments

You won’t want to miss this episode of The Homeschool Sanity Show where my guest, Deb Wolf, and I get real about:

what makes us insecure as women, moms, and homeschoolers
why we will only admit to so much
how to help our daughters find the source of real security

Deb is the author of a beautiful book that will help you begin the conversation with your daughter about where our security comes from. The illustrator was just 12 when she created these lovely pictures that bring this allegorical fairy tail to life. The paperback version of Sarah’s Garden would make a fantastic gift, but the Kindle version is free December 3rd and 4th, 2013 in honor of our listeners.