A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
Firstly, Schooling at Home Requires a Paradigm Shift. With the global pandemic and most countries shut down, millions of children are now having to do school at home. It’s a huge paradigm shift for everyone and an enormous adjustment for both children and parents. I realize that new beginnings are scary and one certainly needs …
Activities: Homeschooling. With Zimbabwe in shutdown, we pushed on with school for an extra two weeks, resulting in a long 13 week term. I decided we needed to keep going with schooling and then we can take time off, once the world rights itself. However, over Easter we took a two week break from school. …
Where do we start looking for God-given gifts(talents) and callings? ‘We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.’ Romans 12 vs 6. NIV Firstly, what we DON’T want for our children. We want to prevent our children ending up in the wrong career… This can be compared to walking around with a shoe …
Actvities: Homeschooling. March started off with our academic and sports goals set and we were all excited to see what the month held… This excitement lasted for about two weeks and then, as Corona Virus descended on Africa, all our sporting events were cancelled! Homeschooling is one very important aspect of our lives which has …
How We Received Our Miracle. Lock-down in Zimbabwe. This week Zimbabwe declared a 21 day lock-down, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. The whole family needed to be on the farm for this period, which meant a very busy few days for me in town, getting organised to be on the farm for the …
Globally, Millions of Children are Unable to Attend Mainstream School at Present. As schools close globally and millions of children are sent home, we can continue our homeschool education un-interrupted. There is no fear, stress or panic with homeschooled families, – as school simply continues as usual. Homeschooling parents get the enormous benefit of being …
How to Encourage Godly Friendships for Your Child. We, as social creatures, are naturally drawn to friends and friendships. As a homeschooling parent, from a remote farming area, one of the main questions I am asked is how and where do my children find and make friends? As a parent I firmly believe that it …
Activities: Homeschooling. February began with a new incentive, aimed at helping the children produce better quality work… I decided to give them financial rewards for Pace Test results. For Zimbabwe children a few US dollars is like receiving gold, as the US dollar buys so much more than our local currency. With this new incentive, …
Today we live in a fast and furious world, where we all expect immediate answers and results. Prayer, and sharing one’s heart with God, provides the basis for success and enables us to keep our lives in perspective and order. Jesus had a passion for prayer. He prayed wherever he was, standing, kneeling, looking up …
Activities: Homeschooling. School started on the 2nd January for us, as we wanted to achieve a week of schooling, before we went travelling. We began by reading our goals from the previous year and chatting about how some goals had been easy to achieve, whilst others had been more difficult. The goals that we had …