It’s not always easy to find a place online where you can actually encourage your highschool or middle school aged children to visit, but The Rebelution is a such a place!

The Rebelution won the “Best Teen Blog” two years in a row and well they should have. Their content is worthy and well-written.

On their “About Us” page they state:

The official definition of the ‘rebelution’ is “a teenage rebellion against the low expectations of an ungodly culture.”

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As a kid I loved Christmas, but if I’m to be totally transparent, it was the gifts I loved. Yep, the more the merrier!

Sad, huh?

After marriage, I began to see things differently. The fact that we had no money to buy gifts helped change my perspective. I was now forced to come up with creative, very creative hand made gifts. But, to my surprise, I enjoyed it! I enjoyed it because as I made them, I was thinking about the people I was making them for. We laugh now about some of the very creative gifts I made & I cherish knowing the grace with which they were received & often displayed for years. (Bless their hearts!)

Years passed and another gift giving shift took place in our lives. Now, we had enough money to buy gifts. Not gobs of money, but enough to buy one gift per person. It was still fun to think about the person and try to find that perfect gift just for them. Not quite as much fun as making it, but still very personal.

Then, as so often happens in the hectic pace of today’s world, the personal element left the process, and that’s what it became, a process. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting homeschool can seem like a daunting task! Where do I start? How do I start? Arrrgh, I don’t know what I’m doing!!! No matter if you’re starting home education from the beginning or jumping in at the highschool level – it can be overwhelming, even paralyzing – been there!The best advice I can give you is the advice that was given to me. Before jumping in, take time to pray and learn.

Pray

Take time to get God’s perspective. Pray, seeking God’s will for your child. He alone knows Read the rest of this entry »

It doesn’t matter if you are [tag-tec]home schooling a high schooler[/tag-tec] or have an eight year old enrolled in public or private school, you are responsible for your child’s education. You & I are responsible for what our children learn, whether at home or in an institutionalized setting. What’s more, the responsibility for education doesn’t stop when the clock hits a magic hour.

On the contrary, Read the rest of this entry »