The Path to Life {special guest PODCAST}
Six times in the gospels we read of Jesus telling his followers that the only way to find life is to lose it. This repeated theme demands an honest self-evaluation: Am I willing to die in order to live? In this episode, Kari and special guest Christine Hanna share a refreshingly honest conversation, sharing from their lives, on what this has looked like in real time. Read More
Call-down-fire Christianity {PODCAST}
It’s possible to know Jesus, even walk beside Jesus, and still react to offenses the exact same way as the world. A few of Jesus’ disciples did exactly this. Today we talk about call-down-fire Christianity, what eventually transformed Jesus’ followers, and what will transform us.Read More
I got 2020’d: What to do with everything you didn’t ask for {PODCAST}
What a year and it’s barely half over. Right?! In this very first podcast episode, Kari introduces the Second Mile — Jesus’ surprising strategy for responding to unkindness and unfairness of all kinds. Learn about our hard-wired justice-meter, and how to tune it to what is TRUE.
On the Kari Patterson podcast: We need wisdom, y’all. Like, yesterday. Right?! We need God’s perspective. We need His heart. We need joy, resilience, clarity, and conviction. Feeling this need, author Kari Patterson opens Scripture and shares candidly how God’s Word informs her daily life. Appropriate for all ages, relatable and refreshing, join Kari for conversations on responding to unkindness, emotional freedom, parenting dilemmas, self-pity, forgiveness, and more.Read More
5 Benefits of multi-ages learning together
Teaching multiple ages at once is hard.
This is one of the most common homeschool complaints I hear (usually from myself!). The struggle is real: We’ll have a 14-year age span between the oldest and youngest of our children when our next son is born this fall.
Currently, one son is learning to shave while the other is learning to keep his hands out of his poopy diaper. We also share our home with another homeschooling family, so the total age-range of kids educated on these premises will be 18 years.
I also have (wonderful!) aging parents, including a disabled mom, with whom we spend much of our time (there will be an almost 79-year-old age difference between my dad and my youngest son). Our 11-year-old daughter regularly feeds my mom, cleans her hands and fingernails, brushes her hair, and reads aloud to her.
I mention these dynamics simply because they have shaped my perspective on age segregation, and convinced me that although learning (and living!) with a wide age-range has its challenges, it offers priceless benefits that simply aren’t available in a sea of same-aged students.
While I won’t hit on the how during this article, I want to convince you the work is worth it! A few of the great benefits include: {Read the rest over at Simple Homeschool