How to Nurture Generosity in Your Children

What a great topic! I love it, so I'll hand it straight over to Jamie without further ado... ******* Guest Post by Jamie Martin of Steady Mom Photo by Milena Mihaylova One Sunday afternoon our family of five headed out to visit a friend. As we drove, my husband was telling the children about his job with Love146, an organization combating child sex slavery and exploitation in Southeast Asia. He was leaving soon for a work-related trip to Cambodia, and described to our kids the [...]

Waldorf-Inspired Real Play

While we don't specifically use Waldorf methods in our home (simply because I've never studied about it myself), I think that there are a lot of similarities in our philosophy of how we would like our children to learn and play, especially as home educators.  I've really enjoyed learning more about the Waldorf method from guest poster Cara! ******* Guest Post by Cara Waldorf is a method of education founded by Rudolf Steiner in the late 1800s that focuses on a natural approach to child [...]

Q&A: Blogging and Balancing Time

Celebrating Our First Passover Supper

Christmas Traditions- the Jesse Tree

More of my thoughts on birth control

I knew that I was opening the proverbial can of worms when I started this series of posts. May I just say thank you so much for the respectful, kind and gently worded responses I received through the comments? I did not have to delete a single comment, and I was so appreciative of the manner in which even those who disagreed expressed themselves. Ya'll are the best! And on with my thoughts... I have discussed, prayed, thought and read about this issue much over [...]

Frugal Family Vacations!

Q&A- My thoughts on birth control