What to do when your Child doesn’t have a Teachable Heart?
The phrase “unteachable heart” is often used to describe a person who is unwilling to learn or change their ways. When our child gets stuck on this attitude it makes family life very difficult. There are three specific character traits you can focus on to...
Does Discipleship have a Place in a Successful Homeschool?
As homeschooling parents we can either make the most of our homeschooling opportunities to disciple our children or we miss it in the pursuit of being an educator. In today’s podcast I’m sharing 3 things that will help you be a discipleship homeschool. I have...
How to Create Learning Environment in your Homeschool
In a classroom situation, the teacher works very hard at creating a classroom environment conducive to learning – a creative, safe, engaging place for children to learn. We immediately envisage posters on the wall, artwork hanging from the ceiling, and a display in...
Homeschool Learning is a Process not a Product but there is a Balance
Our world is very outcomes orientated. If you have a paid job I am pretty confident you are assessed on what you get done or even back in the day at school this is how we were assessed – and it is easy to take that attitude into our homeschooling. We want our...
How to Teach Character to your Kids
Character training is a part of giving our children the skills they need to live a relational and intentional life. I define character as the quality of our responses to people and circumstances. Character is what we call the actions we take based on our values. I...
How do you Teach your Children a Growth Mindset as a Christian
One of the buzz words in our culture today – especially in education – is “Growth Mindset”. As with any idea that we latch onto we need to first consider how it lines up with God’s word. My basic understanding of a ‘growth mindset’ is that when you have...
Don’t Listen to the Crowd (Journal Spot)
As I was looking at this week’s 5 Minute Friday* (something I often do to challenge my writing) the prompt word is ‘Crowd”. I started thinking about Jesus and crowds. Jesus was often flocked by crowds of people. They came to him because they wanted something from him....
10 Quick Tips to Help your Homeschool Students Stay Engaged
Keeping our homeschool students stay engaged is certainly a challenge at times. Over the years I have found that there are certain teaching methods and strategies that help: 1 Learn together as a family When we do as many lessons as we can as a family it creates...
Hi! I'm Belinda
I am a family life coach and help parents to raise their kids with faith, values and life skills in a way that is intentional, relational and heart focused. Read more on the About page
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