This is one of the many reasons I chose to homeschool. I believe children absorb information better when they’re learning hands on. Def subscribed & followed on IG. What a cool giveaway ❤️ edit: also I shared this video

The Wheelson looks fun and educational. We have been studying AI the past few days. There are so many facets to learn and be aware of. Sharing this with family. However, we're not on Instagram.

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Shared!!!! 😊

Shared it! This reminds us of an old rc truck that we built, but it went in circles. Problem solving at it's finest.

The last one l, dont argue in public. My husband does this I was taught to argue behind closed doors. After 13 years I've adapted to also arguing in public because I'm not given that grace.

Shared!! My son is loving all these

Shared!!!!!

These are so cool! I had not discovered them yet! Insjared with my friend who homeschools.

I shared with my friend who also homeschools. 😃

Shared with family. Love the walkie talkie....upgraded!

This book is such a great book for being encouraged as a homemaker! I just got it in from the library and have not been able to put it down! I’m glad you did this series.

The first computer game I remember playing was Oregon Trail 😂 These kits would be well loved in our home. I shared this video with family.

What a great project to keep hands busy during the summer (or any time). I shared this video with family. Thank you so much for introducing us to this company. :)

To say I am clueless about this kind of thing is an understatement. These kits look amazing though. Our children would definitely enjoy them. I shared this video with my sister. P.S. I spy with my little eye some earrings from Fiji!!!!! :)

This looks so great! I shared this video with a teacher friend :)

Where do you live that you get snow in February? It was in the 80s this year where I live in February 😢

Men have indeed been put down. For a very, VERY long time. Depicted, as you said, as fat, dumb, lazy slobs and/or domineering. This is, unfortunately, by design. It manufacturers consent, so to speak, for the success of (extreme) feminism and, ultimately, the destruction of families, which leads to the destruction of us ALL. We've seen it in shows and movies for many decades, but nowadays it's just so blatantly in your face. Even in otherwise seemingly "wholesome" shows and movies we see this. I was looking at books the other day and found one that alluded to raising "boys to be men." It seemed interesting but upon closer inspection, holy moly! The author's (a man, by the way) idea of "men" is...scarily wimpy. (There are slang words that are more accurate than "wimpy" but I wanted to be nicer about it lol) Absolutely fantastic commentary from you, as always. Thank you! Oh, just so that I don't forget to mention it when I sit down to rewatch the Wife portion of this playlist...if you've not already seen it, MomDelights has a playlist going over Eve Reborn that I think might pique your interest 😊

Wanted to add something... Years ago, we were walking around a neighborhood near a local public school shortly after they had let out for the day. Apparently, playing "House" doesn't mean "Daddy" goes to work and "Mommy" stays home to cook and clean and take care of babies like it did when we were growing up. These young elementary-aged children had a much different version. These poor children were screaming at each other from across the street on their way to their respective homes about divorce court: judges, custody, child support, even restraining orders. And name-calling and foul language on top of all that. My heart *broke* having to listen to it. What's sadder still is that I've seen a lot of these kinds of things in Christians as well. I did grow up Christian but was surrounded by divorced being popularized as well as "love thy neighbor" equating to accepting and celebrating sin. It's all just so very sad 😢

I could not agree more about putting things into practice. Actions speak louder than words and, to quote another lovely lady I follow (over at The Commonplace), "Intellectual virtue is not supposed to stay in your mind. If it does, then it's not really virtue." My mother often said that she did not have many books growing up and that she wanted us to have plenty of access to books, which we did. We went to the library a lot and had multiple family bookshelves. I loved to read more than anyone else, so I also had my own fairly large collection of books in my room. Once old enough, I'd spend my days walking or biking to the library and bringing home a backpack absolutely stuffed with books to devour. HOWEVER, our mother did not read to us. I don't remember her reading to me nor do I remember her ever reading to my younger siblings. Our gramma, on the other hand, did. Often. In fact, when she passed away, the only thing I wanted when my aunt asked me if I wanted anything, was the granny square blanket she kept draped over the chair she read to us in. My fondest memories include sitting on her lap being read to. I have always read to my children, including doing voices and accents. We have thousands (literally *thousands*) of books. Some were inherited, others were gifts, but most of them were acquired secondhand. It's taken us YEARS to accumulate them and we are constantly adding to it. Everyone likes being read to, from infancy to 100+. Even my OTR trucker husband likes being included when I read to our children before bed (either on speakerphone or in person during home time). Or, if he's too busy, I'll reread the chapter to him later. He gets such a kick out of it. What a great chapter! PS- Those earrings are super cute. I love the way they beautifully contrast (but also match, if that makes sense lol) with your hair and the background.

I have noticed that as well about a lot of things, as far as THOSE types being interested in it, including pets and travel, but especially with creative things. Art in general, drama/musicals, even something as "mundane" as sewing. It grinds my gears trying to educate myself on historical fashion or crocheting or what have you and seeing people who either support or are part of the AlphabetMafia. I don't want to learn from people whose beliefs severely contradict my own. What's really bothersome is when they don't actually support it, they just pretend to because their viewers or readers do. They sell out. Some have accused me of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I don't see it that way. There are so many other people to learn from, so I can be picky. And it's funny how they get annoyed that people like us are "infiltrating" and "taking over" these things. Um, what?! LOL It's also so odd to me when these types of people (usually women) want to dress like Susie Homemaker yet rant about the supposed pAtRiArChY. They get so angry when people (suppoooooosedly) assume they must surely be (I LOATHE this slang!) "tradwives." That would be like if I shaved half my head, dyed the other half green, and tattooed and pierced the crap out of myself, then get mad when people assume I am some sort of THAT person. These people are cuckoo bananas. They are misguided and lost. They desperately need Jesus.

Love this! You could always make it special and every 4 weeks you have a Friday off so you have a four day week every 4 weeks 💗

I love how each of these kits comes with information on why things are working...because I definitely need help with STEM lol!

Every time I watch these videos my daughter gets more and more excited about hopefully putting one of the kits together!

I'm a mom of six and my oldest has such a huge interest in video games. I actually am planning on doing a unit study on video games. This kit would be perfect!!!

From a family full of creative young engineers....these look amazing! Shared this video with family members.

We shared this video with other family members. Our kids love projects that allow for some creativity and provide a playable device.

Our kids are very much into programming and electronics at this moment. These look like a perfect start off point. Shared this video with the rest of our family.

I know it's the wrong time of year (LOL), but I'm somewhat curious if you actually read the Nutcracker book that was shown in this video, because it appears to be an abridged version of the original novel, and the original novel has some problematic elements during the "flashback sequence" (to the point that I spent years hoping that my Mom would never read it herself, and whenever I read it out loud I bowdlerized it).

These look like so much fun! Shared with my daughter!

My daughter just finished Archimedes and loved it! I just came over from your God schooling vidoes and wondering if you're no longer using that approach? We're Charlotte Mason homeschoolers too but I've been wondering if we should take a more relaxed, unschooling approach. Our oldest sound similar ages- mine will be 13 in September and my youngest girl is turning three, with three boys in the middle.

I shared! My husband would flip out and be so excited to do this with our daughters! He's an electrician and a complete nerd for this kind of stuff and these looks awesome!

Love this! I can't remember if I've mentioned it or not but if you haven't looked into OnMission from Gentle and Classical Press, I think it might be of interest to you and your family. 😊 PS- My dear sister in Christ, I urge you to look into what you're *actually* saying when you refer to children as the L word. Hint: gross "adult" stuff (think inn. Sesst. And peh. Duh. Feel. Ya.) 🤢🤢🤢🤮 Yes, really.

Love love watching your videos. I've shared your video

Hello, I’m asking for a friend who’s recently become a Christian parent struggling with this issue. They’re super young and need advice and I’m not sure what to do. I forget to mention my friend and they felt unsure if I should ask about it. But they’re in turmoil over it as they grew up believing lgbtq is ok. If u don’t mind me asking for my friend. What might happen if your kid identified as someone Lgbtq? What would u do in that situation? I understand this very personal.

Good job, old friend!

Just curious have you compared the Birds Simple Study with the Simply Charlotte Mason bird study? I'd love to do one of those in the future and would love to know how they differ. It looks like they both use the Burgess bird book.

I grew up without Santa ever being a thing and I never feel like I missed out on it I love this channel❤

I always plan too much for the summer. I like to think that gives us options. We have several things we can pick from.

I have a few of the simple studies and I'm hoping to incorporate one of them this coming school year. I'm thinking maybe the Jungle Animals.

Something that might be of interest is a game called Ecosystem from Genius Games, designed by Matt Simpson. It could be a nice complement to the Meadows study 😊

We love using Christy’s simple studies. We are doing Middle Ages since my son is doing y2 with AO. It works perfectly. I’m using her coloring pages for burgess birds for my daughter y1 and we have america 😆 we love them because we prefer to do more natural history as a family. But it still allows my form 2 to read other books in higher level. We also love the Catherine vos bible. It’s like your grandmother is telling the story and you’re just sitting on the floor so engaged in the story. Every time I think of a question she answers it in that bible. It’s so well done.

I love old books. For science this year, we are reading 'Among hte Farmyard People' which has narrative stories of all the farm animals. I also found a book on natural history of farming from 1913 but it is beautifully written and has fun experiments for the farm. I want to incorporate lap books and notebooks for learning.

I’d love to know what kind of computer or laptop you use to run teaching textbooks discs. I got the discs not realizing it wasn’t going to run on my MacBook.

I'd strongly recommend the book "Before You Meet Prince Charming" by Sarah Mally. It's great for many ages of girls & family to discuss these matters together.

For a while, we did a 4 day week every OTHER week, alternated with a 5 day week on the remaining weeks - that was a good pattern for us.

We're raising our children to date w purpose too. Our oldest is almost 19 and befriended a girl at our church in 2021...they would talk to each other at church functions etc..but always w in eye sight of us and her parents. In 2022, they were allowed to become penpals and began writing to each other weekly. My son would give us the letters so my husband and I could monitor their convo ( her parents did the same) over the last 2 years, they've discussed SO much and have become good friends and her parents have become our best friends too. She turns 18 in 3 weeks and he graduates 12th grade this month ( homeschooled). He's already been hired by a company that will pay for him to get his cdl ( starts the job next month) and he plans to live at home while saving money so he can afford to buy a house w little to no mortgage in a couple years and ask her dad permission to marry her. They're really young and we have some conerns re age, experience etc but he's reminded us that the bible says to guard your heart ( because of age, knowing only each others personality so well) and to love the wife of your youth ( implying a young marriage) also that they're both saved so share the same values like serving Jesus, also homeschooling, mom staying home, allowing family size to be up to God etc and voiced who better to marry than your best friend? He bring up valid points and we'd much rather a young biblical marriage vs him being older and giving into temptation etc Hubby and I have to remind ourselves how young WE actually were when we got married and just trust the Lord at this point cuz neither of us are ready for this chapter. Im 39! Lol

We are using Simple Studies this year too. This summer we are using the Just So Stories guide. Then for the school year we are using the North American Animals guide which goes along with The Burgress Animal Book. We also plan on using the Earth and Sky guide to study space. For chemistry Little World Wanderers just came out with a beautiful note booking guide for the elemental book. She also has some Plutarch guides! 😊 I love all your book choices!

June is also Dairy Month 😁 We are doing something similar in our house in regards to focusing on how things *should* be as far as boys, girls, families, etc for the month as well as for our overall approach to dating and marriage. "Why aren't more Christians standing up" 🎯 Now THAT'S the question to ask! Dating with intention/purpose because "courtship" is outdated reminds me of Carlin's bit on "soft language." LOL My husband and I often say we wish we'd met sooner but we also both know that it happened the way it did for a reason. Looking forward to next week 😊 Thanks!!

We have loved simple studies and the Catherine Vos Bible! Great choices for next year!