Doing What’s Most Important
This week we’re seeing another one of our (not-so) little birds leap out of the nest and try his wings on his own. It’s time to take another young man to college for the first time. It’s times like...
View ArticleAnnouncing Our New Radio Show – and an iPad Mini Giveaway!
We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting an hourlong weekly streaming radio show on the new Ultimate Radio Network! Our new show, Making Biblical Family Life Practical, will be the Hal &...
View ArticleHow to Talk to Your Children When Christian Leaders Fall
This has been a pretty sobering week for many homeschool families. A very prominent leader and speaker in Christian homeschool circles confessed to an inappropriate relationship with a woman and...
View ArticleWhat’s The One Most Important Thing?
We recently reached a milestone online – our Facebook page Raising Real Men has gathered 20,000 fans. In the discussion that morning, one of our readers asked, “As a single mom, can you tell me the one...
View ArticleCrank Down the Anger
We finally noticed a pattern. When one of our children got somewhere between nine and fourteen, they’d climb on an emotional rollercoaster and invite us all to join them. Wow, what a tough age to...
View ArticleWhen They Ask Hard Questions About Spiritual Things…
What can we as parents do to help OUR faith become OUR BOYS’ faith? As my son goes into the age if double digits, (10 yrs old soon) I worry about him losing his faith. How do I help him look to God...
View ArticleHow do I talk to my children about these things?
Here’s what I struggle with: How do I prepare my young boys in case they are exposed to porn without destroying their innocence? It is a struggle at young ages, but it’s so important. A mom recently...
View ArticleGiving Devices for Christmas
As parents, we have a love/hate relationship with all the devices in our home. We depend on our laptops. We run our business from them and our teen/twenties sons run their businesses from theirs, too....
View ArticleFive Things You Need to Know About Your Boys & Internet Porn
“I don’t know who else to talk to. My little boy has been watching horrible stuff. I don’t know what to do.” There are five things we wish all parents knew about internet porn. If they did, there would...
View ArticleComing of Age: The Value of Ceremony
People often ask if we’d describe what we do for a coming-of-age ceremony with our boys. Surely with six boys we’ve done something of the sort … and the answer would be, “Yes, indeed!” You’ve probably...
View ArticleComing of Age Ceremonies 2. Who We Invite
We described the idea of a formal coming-of-age ceremony here. We’ve done this with all six of our sons, and in a few years we’ll consider how to celebrate our eldest daughter! One of the earliest...
View ArticleComing of Age: 5. Celebration is Part of the Ceremony, Too!
At our sons’ coming-of-age ceremonies, we aim to gather the wisdom of significant men in the young man’s life and offer encouragement, welcome, and exhortation in a public, family-oriented setting....
View ArticleComing of Age Ceremonies 6. Taking The Next Steps
In this series, we’ve talked about why a formal “coming of age” ceremony can be useful. We discussed ideas about who to invite, who to have as a presenter, and what sort of presentation to have. Last...
View ArticleWhat If Dad’s Not A Christian?
A reader wrote: [In your webinar,] you discussed how Dad is the first Hero and he should point the boys to the Ultimate Hero, Christ. We have a 9-year-old son, he is our only child, and my husband is...
View ArticleA Question of Honesty
A mother emailed us recently with a serious concern many of us have faced. Writing about her 11-year-old son, she explains, Our oldest lies. He lies about his involvement in incidents. He lies about...
View ArticleTalking to Teens About Ashley Madison, Josh Duggar, and The Rest
Years ago when Bill Clinton’s scandals were news, I hated to listen to the radio in the car because I constantly had to be ready to turn it off or explain awkward things on the way to homeschool P.E....
View ArticleFaithful At Work
Does your Sunday morning faith go to work with you on Monday? Maybe in our quiet moments we plan how we’ll respond if we end up like the apostles in Acts 5:29 – “We ought to obey God rather than man.”...
View ArticleQ&A: How do I stop my son from stealing?
A reader asks, “I am having a problem with my 8 year old stealing things. He takes small things from people at school as well as things from his little brothers. A few weeks ago he took one of my...
View ArticleQ&A: My Ten Year Old is Looking Up Sex Online! What Do I Do?
A reader writes, “I follow your page all the time. I first heard you guys speak at the homeschooling conference in North Carolina. I need HELP! I have 4 boys. I have already dealt with the introduction...
View ArticleQ&A: My 16yo Won’t Grow Up! How Can I Get Him to be Responsible?
A mom asks, “My 16yo is driving me crazy! He won’t do his schoolwork. He argues with everything we say. He blames someone else for everything that happens. He’s not obeying and he’s disrespectful. If...
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