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Motivation Monday

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fabric“Students should be taught that they are not independent atoms, but that each one is a thread which is to unite with other threads in composing a fabric. In no department can this instruction be more effectually given than in the school home. Here students are daily surrounded by opportunities which, if improved, will greatly aid in developing the social traits of their characters. It lies in their own power so to improve their time and opportunities as to develop a character that will make them happy and useful. Those who shut themselves up within themselves, who are unwilling to be drawn upon to bless others by friendly associations, lose many blessings; for by mutual contact minds receive polish and refinement; by social intercourse, acquaintances are formed and friendships contracted which result in a unity of heart and an atmosphere of love which is pleasing in the sight of heaven.”

Testimony Treasures Volume 2, Page 437

Show & Share ~ March 5, 2014

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School supplies await the first day of class

Welcome to the February 26th Edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post.

Animal Encounters Series

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Have you heard about Animal Encounters?  It’s a new documentary series produced by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  Here’s a description: “Animal Encounters is a new, exciting nature documentary hosted by three women: Gabi from Germany, Kezia from Kenya and Cassila from Brazil. In each episode they share their personal experiences as they encounter God’s creation…” You can watch the episodes online HERE.

Motivation Monday

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“God has given to parents and teachers the work of educating the children and youth in these lines, and from every act of their lives they may be taught spiritual lessons. While training them in habits of Girl with a broomphysical cleanliness we should teach them that God desires them to be clean in heart as well as in body. While sweeping a room they may learn how the Lord purifies the heart. They would not close the doors and windows and leave in the room some purifying substance, but would open the doors and throw wide the windows, and with diligent effort expel all the dust. So the windows of impulse and feeling must be opened toward heaven, and the dust of selfishness and earthliness must be expelled. The grace of God must sweep through the chambers of the mind, and every element of the nature must be purified and vitalized by the Spirit of God. Disorder and untidiness in daily duties will lead to forgetfulness of God and to keeping the form of godliness in a profession of faith, having lost the reality. We are to watch and pray, else we shall grasp the shadow and lose the substance.”

Testimony Treasures -Volume 2, Page 436

Show & Share – February 26, 2014

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School supplies await the first day of class

Welcome to the February 26th Edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post.

Motivation Monday

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“From every Christian home a holy light should shine forth. Love should be revealed in action. It should lantern porch lightflow out in all home intercourse, showing itself in thoughtful kindness, in gentle, unselfish courtesy. There are homes where this principle is carried out—homes where God is worshiped, and truest love reigns. From these homes, morning and evening prayer ascends to God as sweet incense, and His mercies and blessings descend upon the suppliants like the morning dew…. All can see that there is an influence at work in the family that affects the children, and that the God of Abraham is with them. If the homes of professed Christians had a right religious mold, they would exert a mighty influence for good. They would indeed be the “light of the world.”

He who lives Christianity in the home will be a bright and shining light everywhere.”

The Faith I Live By, Page 278

Food for Thought ~ Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help

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An article from the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada is making the rounds through several homeschool sites I visit.  It discusses the socialization myth and why early learning programs are not necessarily beneficial to young children.  It is definitely food for thought – Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help