Tag: ourfamily

Posted on

Home buying: Why I Recommend Buying a Duplex

house with money signs floating around it

While a duplex is not normally a first choice for the first-time-buyer’s crowd, here’s why it should be.

Duplex: Getting You Your American Dream

“The American dream” has consistently included both opportunity and home buying. Unfortunately, since 2008 and the housing collapse the dream turned nightmare for millions of Americans. Banks had to be forced by the federal government to offer modifications to their clients. People were “upside down,” meaning that the current value of their home was significantly less than they had paid for it, or less than they still owed on it. Is home buying for you? Continue reading “Home buying: Why I Recommend Buying a Duplex”

Posted on

Home schooling: Teach My Child? Who? Me?!

Home schooling help: Picture of teenagers playing basketball

Are you thinking of home schooling your child? Teach my child? Who? Me?! 

[clickToTweet tweet=”‘Christian education is not a type of education merely; it is the education of Christians—individual Christians. It is ‘leading out the called-out’ from wherever they are to wherever God wants them to be’. Sutton https://wp.me/p8m9Kn-32 #goalaccomplish1 #homeschool #homeschooling” quote=”“Christian education is not a type of education merely; it is the education of Christians—individual Christians. It is ‘leading out the called-out’ from wherever they are to wherever God wants them to be’.”]

Besides being a great resource for parents of special needs children, Special Education: A Biblical Approach, edited by Joe P. Sutton, Ph.D. contains the best and most reasoned argument for Christian education that I have ever read.

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our Disclosure Policy for details.

My home schooling philosophy

I used this philosophy when I home schooled my children. Each one of my children was a special individual that needed a unique education to become the person God wanted them to be.

Home schooling help for parents: Four children making silly faces. Yes, this is what my home school looked like some days!

Continue reading “Home schooling: Teach My Child? Who? Me?!”