Christian Unschooling: Do Kids Need Silence and Space to Hear God?

We should share our faith with our kids, but do we also need to give them space to ponder, wonder, and hear God in the silence? Or is that risky? Is faith something we need to impress on our kids, insisting they adopt it without question? Because we don’t want to lose our children, do we? Faith is important.

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Does Christian Unschooling Interest You?

I’ve written three unschooling books:I focused on the educational side of unschooling in Curious Unschoolers.I extended the unschooling story in Radical Unschool Love by sharing parenting thoughts and stories.And I offered practical suggestions for turning all those interesting unschooling ideas into something real in families’ lives in The Unschool Challenge.Three books. A trilogy. Everything I can possibly say about unschooling. Well, that’s what I thought until a new idea began forming at the back of my mind. Now I’m wondering:Could I write a Christian unschooling book?

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Parenting: Doing Our Inadequate Best

Do you ever look back - a few years, months or even days - at your younger self and wish you could have done better? Perhaps you remember dragon parent days when you failed to be gentle. Could you have said things you now regret? I know I do.Sometimes, I want to go back and put things right. But even if it were possible to retrace my steps, perhaps it’s unnecessary to begin again.

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