New App!!!!

Guess what is new with Time4Learning.com?

My kids can now do their school work on my phone!!!!

I am so thrilled. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Yes, I know there are newer Galaxy Note phones I just have not updated mine yet. But if you know this phone you know that it has a large screen. It is perfect for reading books.  Along with perfect for my kids to do their school work on.

The app is called PUFFIN ACADEMY, not to be confused with any other version of Puffin.

It is free!  It can be downloaded on Android and iTunes. Once you download, all you need to do is select Time4learning.com and sign in like you normally would if you where on the computer. My kids have really enjoyed being able to do school while I am working on our only other computer. One of these days we will get a tablet.

Now to find a way to do vocabulary games on my phone and we will be all set. 

Lil Momma Strouse

Scientific vs Spiritual

Homeschool science review usually leads into a discussion between creation and the big bang theory. I am not talking about the TV show either. We at least in our house it leads to this type of discussion. With the resurrection celebrations coming up this weekend. We talked about scientific belief vs spiritual faith.

We are reminded that just because we can not see it, does not mean it is not there or real. Went trying to explain God and our belief to our youngest children we use the example of air. Air is all around us, we don't see it but it is there. We can feel it in the form of wind but we can not see it. You don't see God, but he is there. You can feel him in your heart. Another example would be history. We did not live in the medevial times, were kings and queens, knights and castle where the normal. The same goes for the time when Jesus walked the earth. We did not live it but it still happened. The bible is our history book.

How do you explain or review the not seen but it exist to your young children?

Lil Momma Strouse

Teenagers

Teenagers, Teenagers, Teenagers... Will I live through all three of my kids being teenagers? How did my parents do it? I have NO idea.

Normally I have can only say good things about my oldest son, the only teenager in my home right now. He is sweet, kind, helps out a lot, hard working when he wants to be, the list goes on.

But lately he has been getting to big for his britches, figuratively speaking.  He has learned a little  figurative language that might not help to see his next birthday.

An example of this language is "Go hug a tree!"

I did not think anything of it when he used it for the first time. He was joking with us. But when he YELLED it from his room when he was angry, yeah that was another story!!!!

When I gave him a little special education of what the figurative version of that saying was, he was a little shocked! He really did not understand what he had actually said or at least he played it off that way.

Needless to say those words are not used in my house anymore and we have discussed using sayings that are just another way of saying bad words.

Do your children or teenagers say anything like this that threw you for a loop this did me?

Lil Momma Strouse