Curiosity is the Foundation for Learning
Curiosity is a foundational aspect to learning – for anyone. We want our children to be curious about the world, but they will only follow our lead. Are you a curious mum? Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures – Lovelle Drachman When it comes to...
Prayer: A Two-way Conversation
When was the last time you had a good chat with your father? Your Heavenly Father? When was the last time you had a really good long conversation with Him? Prayer is two-way communication. To pray is not to prattle, to pepper with requests or to complain, but we can...
Celebrating the End of the Year
Do you celebrate the end of the 'school' year? If so share how, if not, share why not. Lacey: We do - we've worked hard! I set a final day for the year, and always make the last day more light-hearted (no cramming). We take a trip to Cold Rock to round it off....
The Challenges and Joys in the Home Educator’s Life
It’s very interesting to me that sometimes home-schooling seems to be one of the most challenging choices we could have made. It’s the very challenges, I think, that can really weigh us down on a day to day basis. Having said this, I realise that putting our children...
Let His Light Shine
As we settled into our seats to fly from Queensland to Victoria to meet with homeschooling mums, God had a little chuckle. The captain introduced himself with a warm welcome and my heart skipped a beat. The pilot was a homeschooled boy our family knew years ago! When...
Homeschooling from the Heart
The topic of our WA19 Mum Heart Conference was “Homeschooling from the Heart”. The key idea was that for us to impact our children’s hearts - we must teach from our heart. The heart is the place where we hold beliefs and values; we then process those beliefs...
Come Unto Me
Being a wife can be wearisome. Being a mother can be wearisome. Life in general can be wearisome. Sometimes we can’t pinpoint it to one thing. It’s cumulative of many things. Where do we go, what do we do when life becomes overwhelming and we feel we have nowhere...
Nourishing Your Soul
If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day,...
Cultivating Friendship
Mum Heart Australia would not be here without the godly, wise influence and input from American author SALLY CLARKSON. Sally has become a personal friend through her encouragement and mentoring to establish this ministry in Australia. Sally first visited Toowoomba...
4 Ways you Might be Making Homeschooling Harder than it Needs to Be
Homeschooling our kids is hard - it takes our time, energy, commitment, focus. But we are okay with that because we want to do the best we can for our kids. But do we make it harder than it needs to be. 4 Ways to make Homeschooler even Harder Copying...