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The Fine Art of Juggling Schedules
Welcome Readers of The Homeschool Minute! Are you in a hurry to get your free download? Then CLICK HERE (and come back to read later!)     Families with children are busy families, at any age. At some stages, though, we found ourselves getting lost amid all the errands and activities and classes and meetings.…
Posted by Hal in Christian Living, Family Life, Getting the Work Done
Hurricane Safety
Today on Facebook, we saw someone from the Midwest giving advice to a mutual friend in the zone a hurricane is predicted to strike -- advice that could cost them their lives. For our friends in the path of one of these huge storms, who may not have been through a hurricane before, we wanted to…
Posted by Hal and Melanie Young in Family Life, Family Life
The Power of Pressing On Anyway
One of our sons called home from college and mentioned an introductory course he was taking in a foreign language. He had gone to the professor and asked him to call on him more often in class, because his spoken language wasn't very good yet and he wanted to get better. It's a refreshing thing to…
Posted by Hal in Uncategorized
When You’re Worried Your Son is Going to Go Too Far
A mom asked, We did the hard press for courtship/dating with a purpose. And it worked - sorta. My son is head over heels for his girlfriend. Sex is coming. It just is. They still say they want to wait. They aren't rebelling by going to her apartment, but he's in a battle between his hormones/desires and…
Posted by Hal and Melanie Young in Adult Sons, Boy's Purity, Christian Living, Dating and Courtship, teen romance, Teens, Twenty-somethings
What to Do When You Find Out Your Child’s Been Watching Porn
What should you do? Well, besides cry? It's devastating to realize that the child you've prayed for, taught the Scriptures to, and tried so hard to protect has been looking at degrading and dehumanizing filth. You're not alone. Nearly all boys are exposed to porn before they are eighteen and the vast majority of them,…
Posted by Hal and Melanie Young in 3 - Teens, Boy's Purity, How to Be a Father, How to Be a Mother, Preteens, Teens
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