The Secret to Successful Homeschooling

The secret is not really a secret. It is, in fact, an obvious thing and probably makes up the secret to any successful endeavor.

Prayer

Consistency

Dedication

Selflessness

That’s it. That’s the silver bullet. It isn’t method, curriculum, schedules or perfect students.

It’s prayer for wisdom and knowledge, dedication to hard work and a worthwhile goal, selflessness in serving others rather than your own desires, and it is consistently opening up the schoolbooks, reading stories, handing out workbooks, and calmly, lovingly insisting that your children work hard and diligently at the job God has given them now.

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Southern Snow

Sunday morning, first of February, in the year of our Lord, 2026. 6:30 am, 12 degrees Farenheit, but feels like 7 degrees. Currently clear skies but still an hour before sunrise, so Sandlin Mountain and Oglethorpe are dark on a dark horizon. For those unfamiliar with the location of

Iced In

Yesterday afternoon, Walter and I spent a lovely five hours home alone, napping, watching shows, cleaning house and doing little projects while Curtis and the kids climbed to the top of a waterfall, ran in fields, played on playgrounds, and just in general enjoyed fresh air and sunshine. It was

Changes

God blessed our family with an opportunity to live in “paradise” somewhat recently, and we spent a year living on a tropical island in the Caribbean. We are now back in Georgia living in a similarly warm but different climate and it’s given me some stark examples of how

No Sugar November Follow Up

Well, I succeeded pretty well with making it to Thanksgiving without eating any major sweets, though I did cheat a few times with a handful of chocolate chips or chocolate syrup in my coffee. 😦 The kicker though, was that I was supposed to stop at one piece of pie. I

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