We had six boys, one after another, and thought our family's sort of crazy was just normal life. Then people who had girls first started asking, "How in the world do you manage to homeschool all those boys?" The fact is,

  - Long ago, we noticed a revolving door at the eighth grade - parents who homeschooled their children from the beginning putting their kids into the school system, and public school parents pulling their kids out of the very same pipeline.

One of the most disturbing, even frightening, experiences of our parenting journey was learning of a child's spiritual doubts. After pouring love and Scripture into our children for ten years, we may find that it hasn't taken root - or that the early b...

One of the reasons many people start homeschooling is to avoid "negative peer interaction," which often means bullying. Sadly, though, it can happen at church, at homeschool meetings, or simply any gathering of kids.

We all start homeschooling knowing that we'll have to teach reading, spelling, math ... all the traditional classroom subjects. But we quickly realized there were some things that "just happened" in school, and now that we're the school,

Do you feel uncomfortable about your own body? When Melanie wrote about this on our blog, it turned out to be one of our most popular articles! This episode, we talk about handling negative self-talk, building up your wife,

Even the best friendships run into rough spots - husbands and wives, parents and kids, church friends, neighbors. Sometimes you need to have those terrible conversations that begin, "We need to talk ..." But even if they're difficult,

It's been ten years since Apple introduced the iPhone - and the whole world has changed because of it. Like many new devices and technologies, what started as an amusement became a near-necessity. But should our kids have access?

We're back from our hiatus and we're talking about relationships! How can we build trust, restore injured feelings, and safeguard the bond between parents and children? We've seen that relationships are built on moments,

Our sons face particular pressures on their way to becoming husbands - and fathers face some of the same issues as they live out their own vows! In the second part of Hal's presentation to a recent men's conference,