Children’s books and growing a reader
Enjoy these tips for fostering a reading culture in your home. Love for books starts young!
Posted May 22, 2017
Helping your 3rd-5th grader with homeschool writing
The best ways to teach your 3rd-5th grader homeschool writing: what to do and what to expect.
Posted September 19, 2016
4 things you’re {already} doing to raise a writer
Can you really raise a writer? Yes! Start by looking for the things you’re already doing well.
Posted April 25, 2016
4 tips for teaching the strong-willed writer
If your child is a perfectionist, focus on teaching self-editing skills. Always encourage, and make writing lessons light-hearted!
Posted September 28, 2015
Your child’s writing: Garden or weed patch?
Find out how your child’s writing is like a garden. Is it flowering and bearing fruit, or is it dry and listless?
Posted May 18, 2015
How to love your kids’ writing
Great tips for how to love your kids’ writing, especially when you’d rather wad it into a ball and toss it across the room.
Posted February 9, 2015
Why does writing matter? Part 2
By Daniella Dautrich PARENTS know that writing matters. It allows our children to form ideas, cement their knowledge, and spread their thoughts to others. Still, your kids...
Posted March 18, 2014
Why does writing matter, Mom?
By Daniella Dautrich DO your efforts to teach writing feel like an ongoing tragedy (or comedy)? Perhaps you slog through the lessons and tell the kids it’s important, when...
Posted March 10, 2014
So you feel like a failure? Screwtape Letter for the Homeschool Mom
By Daniella Dautrich This post contains affiliate links. Read our full disclosure policy. HOW often we try to measure our homeschooling success by home organization, our...
Posted January 20, 2014
New Year’s resolutions for writers
JANUARY is the perfect time to set goals for learning and growing with our families. If your journey in 2014 will include writing lessons with any age, then this list of...
Posted January 6, 2014
Top posts to pin from 2013
LOOKING back on 2013, we were hard pressed to pick only twelve favorite blog posts. Our final list of most shared and most memorable articles includes teaching ideas and...
Posted December 31, 2013
You Can’t Teach Writing: Screwtape Letter for the Homeschool Mom
By Daniella Dautrich PERHAPS you’ve heard whispers of lies such as this one: “You can’t teach writing.” Doubts about your schedule, curriculum, ability...
Posted November 4, 2013
Writing with grace
AS WIVES and mothers, daughters and sisters, teachers and friends, our words have immeasurable, long-lasting impact. Yet in our fast-paced world of texts and tweets, how...
Posted October 14, 2013
Screwtape Letter for the Homeschool Mom
By Daniella Dautrich YOUR calling as a homeschooling mom flows out of your calling to live a life hidden in Christ Jesus (Colossians 3:3). If you experience homeschool...
Posted September 9, 2013
Finding a voice
WHEN we are young, our own voice seems loudest and most important. Then, we grow older and something happens. The world is no longer a show for our benefit, but rather a...
Posted August 13, 2013
Learning to see
In her memoir One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty invites us to ponder the connections between childhood memories and the mature creative process. Miss Welty...
Posted August 5, 2013