Annette Friesen

• All I Want for the New Year Is ... A Peaceful Family!
  After years of attempting to create a conflict-free environment, I have come to understand that conflict is inevitable in a fallen world. The goal is not to eradicate conflict, (or put a...
  Monday, December 29, 2003
• Teaching Children to Be Ambassadors for Christ
  Are you in the midst of a painful conflict? Has your home-school experience become one struggle after another? Maybe you are like I was some summers ago, not looking forward to starting up again in...
  Thursday, August 22, 2002
• Graduations and Goodbyes
  A graduation is a wonderful celebration. It is perhaps an even more significant event when it is a home-school graduation. Despite the joy we experience when we graduate one of our children from...
  Tuesday, July 9, 2002
• Written on Their Hearts
  In our fourth year of home schooling, I faced something I had feared for a long time. How would I ever be able to teach three young children at once? I was certain that my weakness as a mother, my...
  Wednesday, June 5, 2002
• 'Learn Your Lines' ... And Other Lessons From My Mentor
  I am not sure to this day how I managed to find that first support group meeting, or how I found the nerve to attend in my emotional condition; but looking back, I realize how significant that...
  Tuesday, April 16, 2002
• Peacemaking and Home Schooling
  Thursday, December 13, 2001