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July 2026: A Day In The Life of a Former Elementary Teacher Turned Stay At Home Mom
How did you do it? It’s a question that comes up through every season of our lives. For me, it’s been… To the Golden-Apple-award-winning teacher who made her classroom a place students truly wanted to be every day: how did you do it? In conversation with a stay-at-home mother free to chaperone her elementary student’s field trip with our class: how did you do it? With the established writers gathered at a national conference for Christian communicators: how did you do it? And now, in the Bible studies where I sit among other Christian mothers a little further ahead, with children already so confident and yet compassionate: how did you do…
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Teaching Letters Without the Workbooks.
Both of my daughters knew their ABC’s by 18 months old. When I say this, I don’t mean they could sing their ABC’s. I don’t even mean that they had letter recognition as long as the letters were listed in alphabetical order. I mean that my girls could recognize all 26 letters, capital and lowercase, presented in any order and any context. They pointed them out on their own all around town. True mastery. By 2 years old, Savannah knew all of her letter sounds. Charlotte is a week shy of 22 months and, at the time of writing this, it seems she’s on track to hit the same milestone.…
