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Audio Teaching (1026 items)

Minding the Muddle to School Multiple Children in Multiple Grades with Just One Teacher
Valerie Felder
When you answered the call to home school your children, you essentially became the bus driver, nurse, school counselor and financier, among other roles. With all those responsibilities, how is it possible to school numbers of children at different academic levels? This session offers creative solutions from one mother of nine children who was determined not to lose her mind nor waste her children’s in that challenge. Let Valerie share real strategy to help you masterfully wade through the waters of your own multi-faceted schooling experience.
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Increasing Times of Family Delights that Encourage Togetherness
Valerie Felder
The family that plays together enjoys being together. Take counsel on ways to spend enriching moments with your children from this mother of nine (five boys and four girls). From planned engagement to moments of spontaneous fun, see how to easily transform your home into a place of shared delight for you and your children.
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How to Survive as a Home School Family in Economic Hardship
Valerie Felder
What does a home schooling family do if the primary breadwinner loses their job? How do you feed and clothe a family when funding is strained? Where do you turn for delights when even the dollar menu costs more than you can spare? These are only some of the questions answered in this session that help families deal with the strain of job loss or commuter family status. Her humorous storytelling knack highlights the extraordinary hardships experienced by her family in ways that take the sting out of similar misery shared by others. It also makes it easier for families facing dread economic situations to reflect on their circumstances with hope and ready solutions. The bottom line shared is that there is a purpose as well as blessing in our storms.
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Home “A-lonely”: Helping the Stay-at-Home Home School Mom Cope with Isolating Aspects of Her Calling
Valerie Felder
Home school conferences are venues that bustle with the excitement of numerous families convening to celebrate the ministry to home educate their children. After the last workshop ends and families return to their homes, the real work of dealing with the solitude of the task begins. It is critical to support and encourage such moms to persist in their work, enabling them to feel the community of support even as they function alone with their children. Learn survive-and-thrive techniques from a military wife who often found herself in remote settings lending little connectivity with other home school moms. This is a session that will encourage the heart of every home schooling mother to stay the course.
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Building Positive Sibling Connections Against What Pulls Them Apart
Valerie Felder
Some days, everything from the weather to shoe laces seems to cause siblings to war against one another. These are times when a parent can find themselves at wits end, constantly playing judge and jury between their warring children. While some sibling conflict is normal, it is important to prevent damaging escalations. Valerie’s five sons and four daughters have given her decades of experience dealing with sibling conflict resolution strategies pointing family members toward better relating. This program is designed to empower the parent to proactively build peacemaking into family routine.
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Be Ready to Give an Answer as a Confident and Credible Public Speaker
Valerie Felder
If we are to feed the Lord’s sheep, we (and our children) must be able to articulate the hope that is within us. Too often, we only train our children in the loving knowledge of the Lord, forgetting to equip them with key communicator tools to share and speak out that truth. Join a Toastmasters’ International (TI) gold-level speaker and past president to learn tips of the trade that take the struggle out of public speaking for anyone.
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From Atheist to Apologist: Lessons from C.S. Lewis, the Great Christian Storyteller
Stacy Farrell
In this “Age of Tolerance,” Christians are in danger of forgetting what distinguishes the worldview of the believer from that of the unbeliever. Rather than allow the world to introduce moral matters to your children, discover how you can use the life and work of C. S. Lewis as a powerful tool to help your students gain a biblical perspective on those timeless philosophical questions which inevitably arise in the mind of any truth-seeker. Please Note: The microphone became disconnected from the recorder so it may be hard to hear the first 10 minutes of the talk.
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Don’t Eat That Frog!: A Liberating Look at Time Management Strategies
Stacy Farrell
You care about how you invest your time. You’re trying hard to maximize your potential. Some days you feel like a “rock star.” Other days ... not so much. Too often, you simply feel exhausted. So many people depend on you. Life’s demands are relentless. There’s no time to rest. Despite your best efforts, your “to do” list grows faster than you can possibly cross things off. Life feels crazy and chaotic ... like things are spinning out of control. But you’re not content with the chaos. You’re reaching for something better. Come learn five time management strategies that can help you escape the chaos and make the most of your days!
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PDUG: Purposeful Dating Under God
Steve Demme
Steve shares his testimony of seeking a wife having practiced a form of courtship over 30 years ago. He also shares his observations of recreational dating in the world and the church. Beginning with a short study of marriage in scripture, this is a timely exhortation to encourage earnest believers to put God first and be led by the Spirit in finding a life partner.
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Influence of Fathers
Steve Demme
A plethora of studies have demonstrated the profound impact of fathers on their children. In this session we will explore the influence of Dads in Scripture and how we can learn from what they did well and where they dropped the ball. God designed men to serve and lay their lives down for their wife and children.
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How to Get Started Having Regular Times of Family Worship
Steve Demme
Steve relates the ingredients for a doable plan of family worship. After many years of trying, God helped the Demmes make studying God’s Word a daily part of their home. Steve also shares obstacles he wrestled with to lead his family in this crucial area.
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Home Education or School at Home?
Steve Demme
When we began our journey of teaching our children, we purchased several little desks at a yard sale and refinished them. Then we acquired textbooks and workbooks and taped the alphabet to the walls around our school room. Later we moved to the kitchen table, and finally, we discovered a well rounded education is not confined to a classroom, but embodies character, relationships and God.
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What Is Classical, Christian Education?
Matt Bianco
In this workshop, Matt will introduce what an education in the classical tradition and in the Christian tradition look like as well as how those two traditions come together into one.
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What Is a Child?
Matt Bianco
In this workshop, Matt will consider the nature of a child. What drives the child? What kinds of things does he want? How do we order and harmonize those desires to help the child grow up in wisdom and virtue?
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What Are Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric?
Matt Bianco
In this workshop, Matt will explain the three liberal arts of the Trivium: grammar, logic and rhetoric. What are they? How do we teach them? What do they allow us and our children to do and learn?
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Bring the teaching home

Audio Teaching (1026 items)

Minding the Muddle to School Multiple Children in Multiple Grades with Just One Teacher

Increasing Times of Family Delights that Encourage Togetherness

How to Survive as a Home School Family in Economic Hardship

Home “A-lonely”: Helping the Stay-at-Home Home School Mom Cope with Isolating Aspects of Her Calling

Building Positive Sibling Connections Against What Pulls Them Apart

Be Ready to Give an Answer as a Confident and Credible Public Speaker

From Atheist to Apologist: Lessons from C.S. Lewis, the Great Christian Storyteller

Don’t Eat That Frog!: A Liberating Look at Time Management Strategies

PDUG: Purposeful Dating Under God

Influence of Fathers

How to Get Started Having Regular Times of Family Worship

Home Education or School at Home?

What Is Classical, Christian Education?

What Is a Child?

What Are Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric?