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In the spring of 2008 I first prayed for a baby, and in the spring of 2011 God answered that prayer with the birth of our beautiful daughter. My joy was full but so were the fears I wrestled. In some ways I felt like a baby Christian again, caught in a whirlwind of emotions,…
Keith & Kristyn Getty are some of our favorite modern songwriters. Right up there with our son, Matt Henry Young (BTW, if you haven't listened to this song of his, you need to!). :-) They write songs of praise that aren't merely choruses or full of mindless repetition, but instead are full of faith-building truth just…
I just read a news article about a young newscaster on the air for the first - and last - time at his first job out of college. His first words on the air were a blast of profanity. Oh, he didn't know his microphone was on, but part of a reporter's training is to…
The Young family is on the road again in May! We'll be speaking at four major events in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Nebraska, and kicking off the first leg of our 2013 Great Western Tour. May 2-4 Spartanburg, S.C. Teach Them Diligently May 16-18 Nashville, Tenn. Teach Them Diligently May 23-25 Winston-Salem, N.C. North…
[caption id="attachment_6735" align="alignleft" width="300"] Training the next brother to work the booth.[/caption] We're getting ready to fly out to California for the CHEA Bay Area Homeschool Convention this weekend. I'm still part time on crutches, but as I was thinking through the trip, I realized I'm not worried. See, we're taking two of our teens…
Several of our sons have done well in state-level geography bees, including one who ranked no. 2 for the whole state. When a public school teacher turned to Melanie in amazement and asked “What curriculum do you use?” she had to admit a dark secret … we seldom use a geography curriculum at all! So…
Our son Matt takes the blog today: I know that God can, has, and will take care of us. I have seen the healing hand of God protecting and providing for us through every heartbeat, every breath, every moment, every day of the year. I know that God will be our strength, our fortress, our…
Melanie has a recurring dream that she is back in college, final exams are approaching, and suddenly she realizes with horror that she’s been signed up for a class that she’s forgotten to attend all semester. Thankfully, that never actually happened to her, but that kind of panic feels pretty familiar sometimes. We’ve had a…
When we were thinking about high school and preparing for college with our first, we were worried about academics, but now that we’re graduating our third, we’ve realized there are other things, sometimes even more important, that you need to pay attention to along the way. Teach your young adults to be responsibly independent. It’s…
Most of us have been frustrated at some time or another by our boy's love of risk-taking and adventure. They seem to do the craziest things and seldom think enough about them first. As a mom, I want to protect them and coddle them and keep them completely safe. What they need, though, is balance!…
