Changed By Love

Changed By Love

Following the Lamb wherever he goes… Revelation 14:4

Relaxed Homeschooling – How Can You Tell if They’re Really Learning?

If you think that you may be too structured in your homeschool, if you are worn out and your kids hate homeschool, if you’re tempted to put your kids on the big yellow school bus, you may need to relax your homeschooling approach.

I use relaxed homeschooling. I have found that it works so much better for me. It is sustainable and enjoyable. I don’t fight the kids to do their work every day. I don’t use artificial means to try to get them to learn skills that they will need in the future.

We take advantage of teachable moments. We learn from real life situations that come up. We learn because of needs that we have. We learn what we really want to know about.

Watch these 2 videos about how you can tell if they’re really learning when you use a relaxed homeschooling approach.

https://www.facebook.com/Familyschooling/videos/1776023255780209/

https://www.facebook.com/Familyschooling/videos/1776102399105628/

Check out this Not Back to School Homeschool Blog Party by Bethany Ishee at Homeschool Mindset.

https://bethanyishee.com/not-back-to-school/

Resources mentioned in the videos:

Rhea Perry – Educating For Success – http://www.educatingforsuccess.com/

Homeschool Mindset with Bethany Ishee – http://bethanyishee.com/

http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=b6e00062-e1cd-48dc-8077-0a2d48cdc4a3

Spontaneous, Serendipitous, Sporadic Homeschooling

It’s good to plan your days and your homeschooling days and maybe even year. But a lot of learning happens accidentally. Or unexpectedly. Or differently from the way you planned it.

A lot of it will happen in a spontaneous, serendipitous, sporadic way. And that’s the best way. The learning sticks better when it’s real. It automatically applies to their interests and what catches their attention, so it goes deeper and makes a bigger impression. So don’t think you have to be all organized, planned, structured, and have it all together to do homeschool right. Your style may be more like mine. And it works! But make sure your kids do okay that way, too. Adapt to your kids. If they need more structure because of a learning preference, then you may need to go against your own preferences and do what your kids need.

But sometimes life takes our choices and options away. Then you have to adjust the best that you can. And God will help you to do it in the way that works best for your family.

Watch this video about this subject here:

https://www.facebook.com/Familyschooling/videos/1762498890465979/

My Mom is Singing with the Angels

 

 

My Mom really is singing with the angels. I heard her!

I walked into the ladies’ prayer meeting Thursday night and they were listening to a worship service where angels joined in the singing. The people there heard extra voices that were not coming from the worship team! And when the ladies explained to me what we were listening to, my immediate thought was “I hear my Mom in there”. My Mom was a jubilant worshiper and praiser. It would be just like her to join the angels as they burst in on a gathering of earth people as they praised the Lord real good.

So I have a new appreciation for the phrase “singing with the angels”. And I love to picture my Mom that way. She always, always loved to sing. That’s one of the things I remember about her most.

I’m so happy that she can sing again – and her voice is more heavenly than ever!