News — Encouragement

The New Year is often the time we make big plans and goals. We decide this is the year we’ll read aloud every day to the kids. We’ll cut out caffeine completely. We’ll read quality literature after the kids are asleep instead of binge-watching Parks and Rec episodes. We’ll run a marathon. We’ll make every homeschool moment one to remember, and we’ll never yell at our kids. It’s going to be epic. Only, is it just me? I don’t find much success with setting crazy-big-important goals in January. They usually make me cry before we even get to February. And...