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About the BookBook: Flame of MercyAuthor: Eleanor BertinGenre: Contemporary ChristianRelease date: November, 2021Two families, worlds apart. Can they each find hope in the crucible of suffering?All Lynnie Min ever wanted was to be a wife and mother. But when tragedy strikes her family, she’s left with nothing but her faith to begin life again. While pursuing a career she never wanted, can the precious faith she was raised on withstand betrayal by a hostile former friend, now a professor whose ideologies conflict with her own? And why do her puzzling dreams feature only one of her daughters, not both?Out of a smoking...

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now Even though I've published many kindness activities, especially at at my BitsofPositivity.com blog, this is our first full kindness unit! There's also a kindness-themed pack for newsletter subscribers at LivingMontessoriNow.com! You'll find many activities for preschoolers through first graders throughout the year in my previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You'll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities.  At Living Montessori Now, I have a post with resource links of Free Printables for Montessori Homeschools and Preschools.  Disclosure: This...

This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please see my Terms of Use and Disclosure Policy page. Thank you.I had the pleasure of designing and creating several crafts for The Canadian Schoolhouse's Virtual Family Retreat: A Purposeful Life. This virtual family retreat is perfect for homeschoolers. The goal is to share about how to live a purposeful life so that you'll gain new

I spent years pressing flowers in the microwave using the supplies that I had on hand--a terra cotta plant dish, a Pyrex bowl, and paper towels.But when my Girl Scout troop also wanted to learn how to press flowers in the microwave, I realized that what's good enough for me is not NEARLY good enough for them! They needed proper materials and a clearer method.A trip to the town's ReStore scored me a whole troop's worth of unglazed terra cotta tiles at something like ten cents apiece. And simply substituting white typing paper--even the back sides of used typing paper!--turned...

Understanding the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children ~ Written by Colleen Kessler Gifted children have characteristics that can often cause them to struggle socially and emotionally. In fact, academic challenges are often much easier to deal with than emotional ones. To give your gifted child the support he or she needs to be successful, it’s important that you understand how that giftedness impacts his or her emotions. So, what are some of these challenges? Asynchronous Development Simply put, asynchronous development means that gifted children grow physically, emotionally, and intellectually at varying rates. This discrepancy can cause some challenges. A gifted child may...