Category: WORDS OF WISDOM

Things that I feel are worthy to pass along to my friends and my kids one day.

Book Giveaway ~ The Hand’s On Dad

Mr. Boyer was kind enough to allow me to do a book giveaway.  If you want to enter into the contest, click over to my Facebook page and enter to win. The contest is going to run for one week and the winner will be notified on June 24th! So for all the homeschooling dads…

Isolation

Dads, have you ever thought it would be nice just to have some time to yourself?  You know, to come home and kick back and nobody, I mean nobody bother you for just a little bit?  That thought has often cruised through my mind and over the past 24 hours, I got my wish.  There…

Book Review ~ Full-Time Parenting

Israel Wayne ~ Full-Time Parenting : A Guide To Family-Based Discipleship

  Full-Time parenting: A Guide to Family-Based Discipleship After listening to Israel Wayne at the Spartanburg Teach Them Diligently Homeschooling Conference this year, I was compelled to read his book “Full-Time Parenting : A Guide To Family-Based Discipleship”. Israel is the product of a divorced parents, physically abused by step-father and with a mom that…

M is for MY Kids are NOT My Kids

M is for MY Kids are NOT My Kids

I am writing this post in conjunction with Blogging through the Alphabet tonight. Dad’s and husbands of homeschooling mom’s out there, this is going straight to you from my heart.  We have kids and we love them.  We have watched them grow and long to see what they will become in life.  Given the chance…

Happy Anniversary Baby!

Wedding Day of June 5th, 1999

Today is a special day for me.  Fourteen year ago a very special and important lady and I made a commitment before man and most of all God.  That the two of us would hold onto each other through thick and thin, good and bad, and happy and sad times.  Today we are still holding…

Book Review ~ Raising Real Men

Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching And Appreciating Boys In 2012 my wife got this book for me and it made me wake up and pay a bit more attention to how I was raising my sons and what I wanted them to become, real men. The authors Hal & Melanie Young go through different examples of real…

How Much Time You Got?

Being a dad, Homeschooling, encouragement for dads, time-warp wife

I was checking out one of my favorite comedy teams today, The Skit Guys, and ran across this clip they are promoting.  The video is talking about Fatherhood and the ending is a great line of “How much time you got?’ Check out Fatherhood and then keep reading. I think every dad has asked that question of…

K is for Knowledgeable Dad

Knowledge is Power, Solomon' s Wisdom

Going back in time here guys, but who remembers the great “School House Rock!”? The intro that was used starting in 1973 has a line that is so true, “Knowledge is Power”. Here is what I am talking about. [youtube=http://youtu.be/SjNM4eItNRA] Rocky appears to gain super powers from the knowledge that he gains from growing up…

Proud Daddy

GoJu-Ryu, Proud Daddy, Green Belt, Yellow Belt

It is not all that often that I take a moment and publicly brag on my boys.  However, tonight I will!  After about two years of hard work and dedication they have reached and earned the rank of Green Belt in the karate form of Goju–Ryu.  They have worked, practiced and took a few shots from…

A Tale of Veggies

Wild Asparagus, roadside weeds, planting asparagus

You know guys, my wife is a great women. She takes care of the kids, teaches the kids, washes the clothes and even does most of the cooking. I have always said that there was not much that I would not do for this lovely lady of mine. Well tonight that was put to the…

Whiteboard = Happy Wife

Whiteboard, cheap whiteboard, ikea whiteboard, easy whiteboard, glasstop whiteboard, using glass as a whiteboard

Alright husbands of homeschooling mom’s, we have all heard the never ending plea for a whiteboard. “You don’t understand, I need it to do math, a word wall, science…” the list goes on and on. Looking on the wonderful internet at whiteboards, I found them ranging from $50 for some paneling to $600 for glass!!…