I can’t believe it’s already October! As we enter the last quarter of the year, I thought I’d share what I’ve been reading. As always,...

One of mine and my husband’s favorite fantasy series is The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Sometimes compared to Lord of the Rings in...

I think most of us want to read more because we see it as a way to grow in any or all areas of our lives. It’s easy to look at books–...

I ’ve found that the biggest hindrance to starting a new routine with my kids is almost always screens. If I want them to spend more time...

While on vacation last month I read Madeline Martin’s newest work of historical fiction, The Keeper of Hidden Books, and it got me...

There seems to be a trend in our current “mom culture” that says it’s okay to complain about and even belittle our children; we have all...

I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time as an adult. I read it for the first time in high school for English class, and...

For many people, homeschooling doesn’t look like a public school classroom. One of the beautiful pieces of homeschooling is that each...

I’ve mentioned the benefits and importance of reading aloud many times already on this blog, so I’m not going to go into them again today...

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that one way to improve your thinking about the books you read is to read books that are written about...

I think reading is the single greatest act that can help us grow, but the act of reading alone isn’t enough: we also have to be thinking...

I have three main goals for my children: I want them to love Jesus, love others, and love learning. I never took on homeschooling with...

Fall is in the air… okay, maybe it doesn’t actually feel like Fall yet, but if you walk into my house you will be convinced that Fall has...

I’m a firm believer that there is no such thing as a “non-reader.” Actually, I think that saying you hate reading books is a little like...

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If you’re a pretender come sit by...

I remember suggesting a book to a friend in high school once and she responded that she didn’t want to read it because it was the first...

It’s a little shocking to me how much movies and television have changed in the last twenty years. Movies that were rated PG-13 when I...

Most of us have felt pressure at some point in time to finish a book we didn’t really want to. It might have been the book you had to...

The first year we homeschooled I remember reading the tip to write a homeschool vision statement, a list of things that you want to be...

I think “bookish” people often have the reputation of being snobs about certain ways of reading. We hear statements like “audiobooks...