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There's a new post up today, the first of our tour of the continents. We are all so excited about this! My children have jumped the gun a bit--I found a beeswax African Savanna happening in my learning room before I'd even showered this morning. The Alphabet Path will undergo some slow revision this summer, too. And shh...but we're trying to sneak in a writer's workshop before too long!

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I’ve gotten several e-mails recently asking parenting advice. Idon’t know if I’ll ever be comfortable answering those requests. I’m learning as I go and I don’t presume to know enough to comment on someone else’s home situation with an authority at all, particularly when all I know is what I read in an e-mail.

All I can do is offer observations from experience gained in more than 20 years of parenting a large family. From my own experience, in my own house, my overriding parenting principle is to stay close to your children and to stay close to God. It’s simple advice, but not easy advice.

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