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Supporting Young Readers at Home

I often have parents ask how they can help support reading work at home. Quick advice: read together daily! Also, it’s important to make reading together a positive experience. A frequent concern I have heard from parents: “My child wants to read or hear the same books, over, and over, and over.” Repetition is aContinue reading “Supporting Young Readers at Home”

Doing everything

“…for Joseph did everything, and Yahuah perfected it.” -Jubilees 39:13 I can’t help but ponder the word “everything” in this quote. We all want God (Yahuah/ YHWH) to make our work prosperous and perfect and productive. Most days I feel like I am doing the same things over again that I did yesterday: washing dishes,Continue reading “Doing everything”

Glow Worm Parenting

Intentional parenting is exhausting. It takes mental and emotional energy to stop and make eye contact, to smile at your child’s soul when they are looking at you, and to answer with an intentional tone. I know if I’m giving attention with the glow of a screen on my face, it’s not going to count.Continue reading “Glow Worm Parenting”

One Step

One step forward in the right direction is what it takes to reach a goal . Combatting perfectionism takes faith that the step will be more than enough to gain momentum in the future. We were Designed to walk one step at a time. Have you ever tried skipping all day to get from oneContinue reading “One Step”