It’s the season of transition. Even if you have been homeschooling your kids all summer, fall introduces new activities, new groups, and new schedules. While your kids are still captive in the car on the way to school or activities (riding the parent Uber, as it were), we want to encourage you to try...
31 Days of Prayer for Our Children
As we continue our Drop Off Season discussion and enter all things back-to-school, we want to challenge you and your family to 31 Days of Prayer for Our Children. In our new 31-day prayer calendar and journal, we took 31 Scripture passages and created specific prayer prompts for you to pray over your children. These...
Drop Off Season
This is drop off season—the season of life transitions where we drop off our kids at new schools, new classrooms, new co-ops, new study groups, new cities, and new experiences. All this newness raises the level of anxiety for both kids and parents. Since the focus is often on the separation anxiety your child experiences...
Five Tips to Overcome Back-to-School Anxiety
It’s back to school season in North Texas. This time of year has always been filled with some level of fear and anxiety. How could it not be, with new schools, new teachers, new programs, new rules . . . So much "new" is hard for anyone. But the start of the 2021–2022 school...
How to Pray for Your Child
When I think about praying for our kids as they go back to school, so many things pop into my mind. I can pray for: Good grades Good study habits Good behavior with teachers and friends Good friends But I wonder if this is really what I need to be praying for them. Is...