Ten Lessons Kids Learn When Playing Charades and Other Games Charades helps children—and adults—learn how to: stand in front of a group, think on their feet, make quick decisions, use their imaginations, communicate nonverbally, be comfortable in their own bodi...
Ten Tips for Family-Focused Homeschooling The purpose of education is to prepare children for life, but that doesn’t mean that life has to be put on hold while you do. Give yourself permission to do these ten things to keep your homeschooling...
Ten Ways to Share the Blessing of Time with Your Children 1. Worship our Father with your family and with His people. 2. Spend time in His Word together. 3. Mess up the kitchen and make a theme dinner. Start with Mexico. Cook up some tacos, make a Mexican fl...
Thank You For Doing Whatever It Takes One of my favorite people is 97-year-old Miss Katherine, a retired schoolteacher who is a member of our church. I love to hear her tell stories of long ago. One year Miss Katherine taught 5th and 6th ...
Thank You for Homeschooling THANK YOU FOR: Knowing that God trusts you to homeschool your children. Realizing you are not perfect and asking God to help you. Doing the most important job your children need you to do today. Being...
Thank You for Teaching Your Children How to Live in the World One day a homeschooling mama expressed a concern that I know many of you are feeling also: What kind of world are my children going to face when they grow up? For decades, many Christians, including R...
The Heart, Soul, and Mind of a Child Our trademarked slogan for what defines Notgrass History is: Teaching the Heart, Soul, and Mind. At the root of the question of how children should be educated is an understanding of who children are....
The Joys of Nourishing Your Child As homeschooling mamas, you have daily opportunities to nourish you children's growing bodies and to nourish their minds, hearts, and souls. Homeschooling mamas nourish their children's bodies with he...
The Math They Need to Know When I was in fourth grade, my math skills were good enough to place me in a top group of fourth grade mathematicians. When I was in college, I was placed in advanced English — and remedial algebra! W...
The Mirror Image of a Homeschool Mama It happened again yesterday: one of our friends lamented that his mother-in-law watches a television news channel all day long. I think this is a common daily time filler for the elderly. Whew! Wouldn...
The Perfect Why for Every Day You Spend with Your Children The perfect Why for every day you spend with your children: "But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith . . ." - 1 Timothy 1:5 Printable Version...
The Power of Words After the devotional with the whole church in the auditorium, little girls with freshly curled hair, frilly dresses over can-can slips, white anklets, and black patent shoes scrambled off to Sunday sc...