An Upgrade and an Article
Welcome to the new Intentional Parents posts! We have a lot of new readers, and we’re eager to get started with the monthly e-mail and post again.
As many of you know, we took a break for a few months to work on our sister site, Simply Charlotte Mason, and to give Intentional Parents an overhaul. With that upgrade, we have been able to add more content and some new features for all of you.
Next month we’ll be back on our regular schedule of monthly topics for our posts:
- Intentional Parents
- The Bible
- Enjoyable Pastimes
- Academics
- Character
- Home Skills
Our format will be a little different, but the emphasis will be the same. In February we’ll start where we left off: ideas and suggestions for teaching Academics.
This month I wanted to mention an article called Lessons from the Valley. It was just published in Homeschooling Today magazine and is posted on our site. It talks about the “giants” that we all face when we find ourselves in a valley in life. Your valley may have a different name than mine, but the giants are eerily similar.
“We always knew that Hannah was a little different from her older sisters, but we are firm believers in letting each child develop at her own pace. It wasn’t until Hannah started to lose her ability to talk that we became concerned. That was the beginning of my valley. . . .” (Continue reading Lessons from the Valley.)
I’d love to hear about your valley and how the Lord is walking through it with you. One great new feature on our upgraded Intentional Parents site is the ability for you to add your own comments to these e-mails. We invite you to share Scripture, encouragement, and your own life experiences so we can all learn from each other. You can post your comments below.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Sonya! It was such a joy to hear an update on your family! So much has changed for Nat and me; Nat is no longer at RBP, and I am only working on a freelance basis.
There is a longer update on my blog, if you are interested.
Also, thanks so much for your posts on Hannah. We are in the process of working with Jack, our oldest. He has some eye problems and really seems to be lacking in his depth perception. Along with that, he is very far behind socially. While he is very intelligent he is a very high needs little guy, and we are praying for wisdom to figure out how to best help him adjust to the world around him.
It is a blessing from God that I am home with him now. I have been able to watch him closely, and I have been working with him a lot. Right now, I feel like I am at a fork in the road. Is he just a little slower developing socially, or is there really something that I am missing?
Nat and I see great days and awesome improvements. Then another day it seems as if we are really losing ground. We just hare to take deep breaths and jump in with both feet to this wonderful world of parenting!
Anyway, a long, rambling blog to say thanks and I MISS HEARING FROM YOU!
Erin
January 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Erin,
How great to reconnect with you! Thanks for the link to your blog. I’m eager to get caught up, and I’ll join you in praying that the Lord gives you clear direction for the next step in your journey. Those forks in the road do require deep breaths, don’t they?
February 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Very nice website….we have similar ideas. I offer a six week curriculum focused on intentional parenting. http://intentionalparentingprogram.com