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Today’s Video: What Kind of Job Fits You? Dr. Jordan Peterson. (9 minutes) How do we guide our children as they enter their high school years and prepare to enter the work world? In this video, psychology professor Jordan Peterson discusses different kinds of jobs, IQ levels related to them, stress tolerance, hierarchies of competence, weaknesses and…
Remembering Pastor Chuck Smith
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. — First Corinthians 4:15 Last week, Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, California, passed away. The Stage IV cancer he had overcame him Thursday morning, but not before…
Are you Preparing to Live? Or living?
If you live in a rural area of the Northwest, you can count on losing power a few times each winter. I like the way Terry Hersey, writer of the Sabbath Moment Blog describes what this looks like after a storm blew through: This much is very true: without power, life slows way down. No computer or TV or…
The End to Homeschooling Part 2
It’s been awhile since I wrote part 1 of The End of Home Schooling so you may want to read it in our archives (click here) to understand the context of the following. So, who did or should the graduates have identified with? Our speaker gave them a few moments to ponder the question and shocked…
The Wrong and Right Way to Fix Your Student’s Mistakes
Years ago an investigative reporter presented a story in which some public school teachers had been caught “adjusting” the answers on some of their students’ achievement tests. In this particular school, bonuses were linked to high classroom scores on end-of-the-year achievement tests. The temptation to tweak the weaker students’ answer sheets to increase the overall class average…
The Burden of Perfect Parenting
Below is some helpful advice from one of my favorite authors, Chad Bird. I think it’s timely as we begin a new year of home schooling. He writes, One of the best gifts we can give our children is to stop trying to be perfect parents. Don’t set out to be a hero to your…
