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Doubt Yourself? Trust Christ

Doubt Yourself? Trust Christ

May 22 | Blog, Homeschool Vision, Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not...

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The Importance of Like-Minded Fellowship

The Importance of Like-Minded Fellowship

Apr 24 | Blog, Co-ops & Community, Family Discipleship, Homeschool Vision, How to Homeschool, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and...

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Long-Term Caring for Your Special Needs Child

Long-Term Caring for Your Special Needs Child

Mar 27 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Single-Parent Homeschooling, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn  And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these...

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Expressing Love So Our Children Feel Love

Expressing Love So Our Children Feel Love

Feb 28 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Highly Gifted, Homeschool Vision, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not...

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Cabin Fever: Frustration or Fun?

Cabin Fever: Frustration or Fun?

Jan 17 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain...

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Peacefully Navigating the New Year

Peacefully Navigating the New Year

Dec 27 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn And He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and...

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Instilling a Thankful Heart

Instilling a Thankful Heart

Nov 22 | Blog, Discipling Young Children, Family Discipleship, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom,...

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Trauma and the Need to Redeem October 31st

Trauma and the Need to Redeem October 31st

Oct 25 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Ghoulish masks. Headstones. Risque costumes. Scary Clowns. Witches and warlocks. Do you agree that...

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Baseline Start for a Home Run Year

Baseline Start for a Home Run Year

Sep 27 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Homeschool Vision, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and...

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Back-to-School: Resetting Routines

Back-to-School: Resetting Routines

Aug 28 | Blog, Homeschool Vision, How to Homeschool, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as...

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Lazy Days of Summer Hot Dates

Lazy Days of Summer Hot Dates

Jul 26 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Marriage, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.(Proverbs 5:18 ESV) Remaining...

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Summer Struggles and Solutions

Summer Struggles and Solutions

Jun 28 | Blog, Homeschool Methods, How to Homeschool, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night....

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Graduating to What?

Graduating to What?

May 24 | Blog, Discipling Teens, Family Discipleship, Homeschool High School, Homeschool Stages, Homeschool Vision, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he (Proverbs 29:18...

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Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning

Apr 19 | Blog, Homeschool Methods, How to Homeschool, Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house,...

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Destressing Your Homeschool

Destressing Your Homeschool

Mar 22 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Single-Parent Homeschooling, Special Needs Labels, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Destressing Your Homeschool  Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate...

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Discipling Includes Disciplining

Discipling Includes Disciplining

Feb 22 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn In my previous blog, I wrote about building character in your children. There are many reasons to...

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Unique Learners — Instilling Godly Character

Unique Learners — Instilling Godly Character

Jan 25 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Homeschool Vision, Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

by author Shari McMinn Today is my amazing Mom’s 90th birthday, as well as my oldest son’s 42nd birthday. Two great...

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Twice Exceptional Students

Twice Exceptional Students

Oct 26 | Blog, Highly Gifted, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Author Shari McMinn “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them...

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Unique Learners: Peace through Unity or Isolation?

Unique Learners: Peace through Unity or Isolation?

Aug 24 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Highly Gifted, Homeschool Vision, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn As a parent of a busy homeschooling family, especially one where challenging students can purposely...

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Writing Struggles — Unique Learner’s Column

Writing Struggles — Unique Learner’s Column

Jul 27 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn It’s firecracker-hot July, a season some have termed “the dog days of summer.” Not only are dogs hot,...

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