We might have heard of dyslexia, but how many of us even knew about the learning labels of dyscalculia and dysgraphia, or how to help our children cope with them?
Defining and Overcoming Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Dyslexia
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Unique Learners
Foster and Adoption: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Attachment and Trauma
By Shari McMinn May is recognized nationally as Foster Care Month. I want to personally thank all of you parents who have adopted children or provided foster care. We need more willing Christians like you to undertake this special work that God...
Sensory Processing Issues: Avoiding or Seeking?
By Emily Werner I was watching my son participate in “Safety Town,” a little community summer day camp for soon-to-be kindergarteners. I was partly there for my son, and partly because I so desperately needed to get out of the house! I had been in...
Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Issues While Homeschooling
By Shari McMinn Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2 ESV). Some children, and parents,...
Helping Your ADHD Student Learn Each Day
by Shari McMinn For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well (Psalm 139:13-14 ESV). One of my adopted...
Homeschooling the Violently Aggressive Child
by Shari McMinn There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love (1 John 4:8 ESV). A true adage is, “Hurt people, hurt people.” I was carefully and...
Find Conviction and Purpose in Your Homeschool Journey
Triumph Over Tears by Yvonne Strachan Every perceived failure I carried as a mother and teacher washed over me like a tidal wave. Collapsing onto my daughter’s bedroom floor, I buried my face in trembling hands. Moments before, I had kissed her...
Remembering Christ as the Reason for the Season and Your Family’s Salvation
by Shari McMinn And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:7 NKJV). We all know the story. We have read it perhaps over and over...