Making Biblical Family Life Practical

News from the government and public schools has been disturbing recently, and homeschool organizations are reporting an increase in inquiries from families who are now considering moving away from the public school option. There are always questions though – is this legal here? Will my kids be able to get into college or a job one day? Will my family turn out weird? This episode, we’ll share some of our own observations from over twenty years of homeschooling our own family – and maybe encourag

Hal and Melanie have been on this network since nearly the beginning. Felice met them on the conference circuit, asked if they would podcast, and they said yes — and they are still here thirteen years later. For the network’s birthday, every host answers one question a real homeschool mom actually asked. This is that episode. Their question: “Your boys will not sit still, and you are out of ideas.” You know the answer if you have been listening a while, but it never stops being true: boys need

Helping Your Perfectionist Child Melanie’s phone rang. It was their son, away at college, nearly hysterical. He was going to get an A-minus. If you’re raising a perfectionist child, you know that phone call in your bones. If you have a child like that — the one who bursts into tears over a missed problem, who won’t try anything unless he already knows he’ll be good at it, who announces he’s “terrible at everything” the moment something is hard — this episode is for you. Hal and Melanie Young

Family Worship That Actually Works | What to Actually Do Last week we talked about why family worship matters and why it’s so hard. You came away convinced. Then Monday morning arrives, everybody’s on the couch, and the question hits: what do we actually do for the next fifteen minutes? Hal and Melanie Young — parents of ten — walk through exactly that. Not a theory of family devotions, but the pieces you can pick from, and permission to leave most of them out on any given day. The building bl

You know you should be having family devotions. You’ve started three times this year. Somebody bounced on the couch the whole time, somebody else couldn’t stop giggling, and by Thursday it had quietly disappeared again — along with a fresh layer of guilt. Family Worship Without the Guilt: Making Devotions Stick This School Year Hal and Melanie Young have been there. In this episode they talk honestly about why family worship is so hard, why it matters more than you can see right now, and how t

It’s that time again — the planners are out, the curriculum catalogs are dog-eared, and the pressure is building. Before you map out every minute of the coming year, Hal and Melanie Young want to give you some relief, some freedom, and a whole lot of grace. In this back-to-school favorite, Hal and Melanie share the planning approach that carried them through 25+ years and five graduates (all offered academic scholarships): plan well, but hold your plans with humility and flexibility. They walk