Is your church participating in Lifeway's Vacation Bible School for 2015, Journey Off the Map? If so, now is a great time to start crafting (with or without your kiddos' help). These projects will be great for take-home items, decorating classrooms, and getting your own children … [Read more...] about Start Crafting Now! Journey Off the Map VBS Preparation
School-Age Kids
What a Teacher Wants to Tell You, the Parent by Ashley Terpstra
source: Duke University Archives via Flickr Creative Commons The reason we give homework is not to make your life harder as a parent. In order to transfer their knowledge, it is important that they practice independently what we are learning that week. We have a limited … [Read more...] about What a Teacher Wants to Tell You, the Parent by Ashley Terpstra
The Desperate Diva Diaries: Christian Fiction for the Preteen Crowd
There were the Dork Diaries. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. And now Angie Spady offers a Christian alternative with a female protagonist: Catie Conrad, star of The Desperate Diva Diaries series. When Catie asks her journalist father for a sketchbook, she should have known … [Read more...] about The Desperate Diva Diaries: Christian Fiction for the Preteen Crowd
I Love Valentine’s Day! by William Summey
One of my favorite parts of Valentine's Day is helping the boys pick out their Valentine cards for school. They are not that much different than the cards I picked out as a young boy, except for the characters on the front of the cards (although I think Scooby-Doo® has remained … [Read more...] about I Love Valentine’s Day! by William Summey
More Ways to Feel Guilty: Not Crying about Kindergarten
My oldest child, our only daughter, Libbie, started kindergarten on Tuesday. Leading up to the day, I felt pretty emotional. I wrote about letting my baby bird fly from our nest and I wondered what it would be like having her away from home so much of the time. I knew on Tuesday … [Read more...] about More Ways to Feel Guilty: Not Crying about Kindergarten