Jessica

“To be tempted is to be confronted by your enemy—whether it’s the world, the flesh, or the devil—and if you try to fight in your own strength and power, you will be overcome. Jesus taught us the way to handle temptation: answer with Scripture, answer with prayer, and we will be delivered from evil by God’s hand, not our own.”
― Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids

“By overcoming our difficulties, we make true progress. Our goal is not to avoid ever having temptations. Encountering temptation is an expected part of life. If Jesus could be tempted yet be without sin, we know that temptation itself is not sin. It is giving in to temptation that is sin.”
― Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids

“true education is perhaps more about a culture than it is about a curriculum; that it is more about a way of life than it is merely a way of doing; that it is a vision of what God has called us to rather than a mechanical set of prescriptives; that it is about faith,”
― AmblesideOnline Education Foundation, Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

“For the first time in history young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. They are not manageable, teachable, or maturing because they no longer take their cues from adults.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers