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Reaching Higher is a free, monthly homeschool ezine to encourage and equip homeschoolers, bringing you the best advice, articles, websites and encouragement we can to help you as you raise your young ones and build your family legacy! If you enjoy this e-zine, please pay it forward and send it to a friend. Issue #17 - May 2008 Old Wineskins for New WineWell, here we are headlong into the second school term for 2008…doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! Shirley and Wendy have both been through a time of learning about being set free from old mindsets and patterns of behavior. This is not a recent happening, but rather an on going process as God gently peels off old ways of doing things to replace them with His life giving ways. We would like to focus on sharing what we have learnt with you in this month’s E-zine. AdviceOther circumstances in our homeschools can also bring old mindsets to the fore. In high school, Wendy had a particularly harsh teacher who left scars on her esteem. These same issues were raised time and again in her own homeschool. Shirley has had to deal with an assault on her emotions due to certain relational issues that have arisen recently. How do we as busy moms begin to be set free from old mindsets, hurts or be delivered from a storm? There are a few issues here. One is aggressive obedience to the Lord and believing that Love Never Fails. When we begin to get impatient with our children in any circumstance, we need to be sure that we govern our interactions with them based on the love relationship we have with our Father in heaven. He is patient with us as we learn to aggressively obey Him in the small and the big things. In the process of obeying him we learn to listen to our children, plan for time crunches, help them when they need help and we do not yell at them. This is creating a new wineskin for Him to pour in the new wine. The second is prayer, the here-and-now-in-the-moment-payers of a heart that desires to be set free from old hurts so that we can be free to love and train our children. The last is if your emotions are being assaulted for any reason due to relational issues, to remember that God is our shelter and He is our Rock, Our Fortress and in Him we will trust. By way of summary: 1. Aggressively obey the Lord in the big and small things (John 14:15-21) Free Printables
WebsitesWikipedia.org is an amazing online source of information on just about any topic. Often one of our children will want to dig deeper into a topic or personality so I have taught them how to get a wiki search straight off. Simply type in the person or item you want to research and add “wiki” on the end and voila…you have hyperlinked information at your fingertips. Remember, you can also use your search engine to search for images of anything you are learning about and at You Tube you can find educational video clips of anything you are learning about. We have enjoyed watching salmon migrating upstream, a venus fly-trap in action, mechanical seed dispersal, remote operated underwater vehicles and more. Make sure you supervise your children on the You Tube site as sometimes there are links on the landing page to unsuitable material!! Footprints NewsTill next month, we wish you every blessing Wendy and Shirley www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com Footprints On Our Land - South African Homeschool Curriculum "The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family." ~ Mother Teresa Copyright © 2011,www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com All rights reserved.  |
