Training Toddlers
After Its Kind, and Then Some
When I see orange, the same shade as the fruit, I experience an involuntary citrus constriction in the muscles of my jaw.
Broken Insides
As we piled out of the car and started unloading, there was a certain air of quiet foreboding over the place…
Uncommon Common Sense
Recently I asked two old-timers (men who remember seeing the first airplane or automobile that came to town, and they go to sleep before they finish telling the story)…
The Selfishness of a Tender Heart
You remember the many “Johnnys” in our book. His reputation was further confirmed as he came to visit us this week.
What Can We Do?
“We are starved for fellowship with believers who are of like mind. I am ashamed to say that we cannot relate to most of the families in our church.
We love our pastor and his family, he is a good man. But as a homeschooling family concerned about holiness, we just can’t be a part of all the carnality that is in our church. What can we do?”
Pubermania
Mother number One: “I simply can’t understand what has happen to my son John. He has always been the one child I could trust to always do right. He has always been so thoughtful, polite and sensitive to the…
Mountain Ma and Pa
O, so much ter do So much ter be done! The work’s never through An the work ain’t much fun. No thanks fer yer labor No pay fer the job” Jest “What’s fer supper?” “How bout corn-on-da-cob?” Ya mop an … Read more
Training Teens
Dear Michael, I have a fourteen-year-old son who is worldly minded. He gets his hair cut so that his bangs hang down over his eye on one side.
Volley Ball No Bawler
This past fall on the volley ball court another episode in the ongoing saga of child training was played out on a nearby pallet where a mother daily deposited her crying nine-month-old daughter.










