By dumb luck, I was able to pay for my own college. I was only 17 when I started college. Since I didn't like school, my first thought was to go during the summers. If I went during the summer, I could get it over with faster. Then I thought, I don't want to be 20 years old and working full time... More >>

I am a 44-year-old mother of five children, ranging in age from 7 to 19. I've always been home with them, and I have homeschooled them from the beginning. This hasn't been hard - it's been wonderful... More >>

Perhaps you and your husband have been married for a little over a year. You both want children but want to know when is the best time for us to start trying? Is there ever really a best time? Most of your friends already have children, and you're starting to feel as if you should get started a little sooner than later... More >>

My mother knowingly married a convicted child molester when I was twelve years old, and he abused me until I "ran away" from home at 21. To this day, my mother denies any knowledge of his actions, even though I had him sent to jail... More >>

Backtalk or sassing back at our home is rewarded with work. The more the arguing and sassing, the more jobs get piled on. If jobs are not completed, privileges are revoked... More >>

I grew up in a loving home with a stay-at-home mom and a hard-working dad. Now, as an adult, I see how having a one-income household must have been a struggle for them... More >>

My first job out of high school was working at a daycare while I was attending college. I am wonderful with children, however, I quickly realized I could not give the children the love, attention, and care that they needed and could only receive from their mothers... More >>

I am a stay-at-home, homeschool mom to three. When I first began staying home, we had to make sacrifices, and money was tight. I had to get creative, so I shopped second hand for clothes, clipped coupons for groceries, and borrowed a relative's camera to take pictures of my kid, because I couldn't afford a fancy photographer... More >>

The #1 biggest and hardest part about being a SAHM is that darned ego. I thought it would be easy to hang it up on the door because it would be replaced by buckets of warm fuzzies and the complete inner satisfaction that I am doing a job that know one can do better than me. More >>

Several weeks ago, my daughter-in-law was called into the local elementary school's principal's office, because my grandson was in a fight on the school bus... More >>