“Rather than society influencing the home, it ought to be the Christian home influencing society. Righteousness brings beauty of character. Character creates harmony in the home. Harmony in the home brings order to civilization, which makes peace on earth.”

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Nicki Truesdell

Christian. Wife. Mother of two sons and three daughters. Author, blogger, speaker, and book lover. Second-generation homeschooler.

This blog has been my space to share all things Christian parenting, homeschooling, and conservative issues since 2009. I belive in bold truth-telling, biblical womanhood, and discipleship parenting.

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Not every homeschool day is awesome. Some are sweet and wonderful and some are just the worst.

Trying to lapbook our way through the early church. Miss Poppy thinks her place is right on top of Catie’s school work every day.

Here’s our current book stack for history. (My kids are 9-16.) as we begin Mystery of History Volume 2: The Early Church and the Middle Ages, there’s a lot of great stuff to cover!

In one class you learn to read. In another class you learn Bible. In another class, you learn cursive. In another you learn history. In another you learn geography.

I have to keep saying this, because of the (wonderful) growth in home education: No, you do NOT need vouchers to homeschool. Whatever made you leave the public system, leave it completely. 100%. Don’t drag it into your home for freebies.

Does anyone ever think about how Columbus went from being a hero to our American ancestors to villain in our current day? (I fear the answer is usually NO, based on how easily people have accepted the new narrative without question.)

Christopher Columbus is accused of many things, among them, being a thief. It is true that one of the things he searched for was gold. But when he found that some of the island inhabitants had it, he would only trade for it. Multiple times in his journals (which are verified by his contemporaries, like Dr. Chanca and Las Casas), he commanded his men not to take it freely. He wanted to find the source and mine the gold. He mentiones repeatedly that the natives placed no value on gold.

This is one of the components of our “health curriculum.” It’s not really a curriculum, but various resources I use to help my kids understand health and nutrition.

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Interview with Israel Wayne on the Family Renewal Podcast

I recently had the pleasure of visiting with Israel Wayne about my book, “Anyone Can Homeschool.” We discuss my background as a homeschool kid and as a homeschool mom through many difficult circumstances, and what…

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“Rather than society influencing the home, it ought to be the Christian home influencing society. Righteousness brings beauty of character. Character creates harmony in the home. Harmony in the home brings order to civilization, which makes peace on earth.”