By guest author Lyndsay Lambert

A friend of mine once told me that if she was going to homeschool, she wanted to give her children things that they could not get anywhere else. I liked that, so I began to think about what that would be for my family. I decided it would be an education that incorporates Scripture and character into all aspects of the curricula.

We believed that if we could teach our children to work with numbers, to read, and to write and train them in character, they could educate themselves. How? They would have the tools and the desire, as well as the character needed to persevere. That does not mean we did not pursue academics; rather, we emphasized tools and character training as the most important part of schooling.

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By guest author Marcie Watkinson

Young children are not known for their patience. Adorable, funny, cute, smart, mischievous, observant, talkative, shy, sensitive, and outgoing are all words to describe little ones, but not “patient.” Mine want their breakfast the moment their sweet heads rise off their pillows in the morning. Going to the bathroom is suddenly a huge emergency as soon as they discover someone else is using it (never mind the fact that we have two more bathrooms upstairs that the needy individual could easily use).

They ask ever so kindly if they could play with a toy when their sibling is finished with it, but if the particular sibling is not finished in about twenty seconds, the kindness disappears and frustration takes its place.
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