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A Short History of Homeschooling- The Importance of a Christian Education

Homeschooling has become a hot topic in recent years. Many parents have chosen to remove their children from public school settings after the interruptions in schooling due to covid. This influx of children daily in the home, has greatly changed the education landscape of our country. For many of these parents, this was the first time they had an experience with teaching their children at home. The idea of teaching children at home is not novel, although have been accustomed to think its new. In fact, throughout history teaching your children at home was the norm. Homeschooling has been around for a lot longer than we think.

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The Terra Prime Adventures- Book Review for Early Readers

The Terra Prime Adventure Series is a good clean space story for kids and families. The first story sets the scene of a tween boy who awakens on the starship to find that his sleeping pod was opened while everyone else's stayed closed. Zack must solve the problem on the spaceship of an un-identified intruder, with only the help from the on board computer.

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Let Them Be Kids- Book Review

Let Them Be Kids, opens our eyes to look at childhood as a fun process that we as parents need to encourage. Often in society today we rush our kids to the next phase or allow them to spend un seeming amounts of time being entertained by something. Jessica brings up managing video games, television, sleepovers, play dates, outside play, and more.

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Surviving Church with Young Children- Tips for Keeping Children in Worship

Our church bag has changed greatly over the past 11 years as our children have grown and as we have grown as parents. Every stage of life has different requirements for a church bag. When we had no children, our church bag just consisted of our Bibles, notebook, and pen. As our family has grown, our church bag has grown. Read on to find out what our church bag looks like for different ages and some of our favorite church bag supplies.

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A Guide to the Book of Proverbs for Family Worship

Family worship once was a hallmark of earlier Christian generations within the United States. Gathering together daily to extoll the Lord, call upon his name, and submit to his word is a long-forgotten pastime and one that needs to be revived. Many have lived their entire lives missing out on the spiritual pleasure, and joy of reading sacred scripture, praying daily, and lifting united voices in song. Family worship doesn’t need to be marathon, lecture, or sermon. Family worship can be done with children of ALL ages and at any time of the day. The important thing is that we are devoted in our private family lives to the worship of God.

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