By Shari McMinn Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.(Proverbs 5:18 ESV) Remaining happily married is a challenge for most couples. It is even more difficult when you are raising unique learners, but is crucial to...
Summer Struggles and Solutions
By Shari McMinn And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years (Genesis 1:14 ESV). I love how God created the signs and seasons,...
Graduating to What?
By Shari McMinn Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he (Proverbs 29:18 KJV). Three decades ago when my late husband, Cary, and I began homeschooling our then five children, we discussed what outcomes...
Experiential Learning
by Shari McMinn You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV) As homeschool parents, we should...
Destressing Your Homeschool
By Shari McMinn Destressing Your Homeschool Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving...
Discipling Includes Disciplining
By Shari McMinn In my previous blog, I wrote about building character in your children. There are many reasons to raise our future adult children to be men and women of godly character. One reason is so that we will choose them for the inner circle...
Doing Life Together
By author Shari McMinn When homeschooling unique learners, it is a necessary constant to work on relationships while doing ‘school.’ Three times a year, our family ditched the books altogether and enjoyed doing special things to make memories, draw...
Unique Learners — Instilling Godly Character
by author Shari McMinn Today is my amazing Mom’s 90th birthday, as well as my oldest son’s 42nd birthday. Two great celebrations for two beloved family members, one celebration is for the one who modeled godly character for me during my idyllic...





