Steve and Teri Maxwell have been married for almost 45 years and are 30 year homeschooler veterans. They are parents to 8 grown children and grandparents to many.
Steve and Teri have written articles for parents for 25 years, and we’ve combined many of their early newsletters so they’re easy for you to read: Just Around the Corner Volumes. For only $10, you’ll receive nearly 800 pages of encouragement. The set would make a perfect gift for any parent!
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Recent Seriously Dads
- Building a Godly legacy- Children that will love the Lord
- Are You Guilty of Heresy?
- Unfaithful wife
- Want to be thrilled with your wife’s love?
- Making Disciples
- Convicted
- Are You like Jehu?
- How’s It Going?
- Missed Blessing
- Not in My lifetime
- Reversing Entitlement Part 2
- Reversing entitlement part 1
- Blessings become Curses
- Finding a Church
- Your Choice – Bumpy or smooth
- The First Taste
- Your Preference?
- How’s It Looking?
- Conflict
- A Serious Concern
Recent Mom's Corners
- Grandma’s Lessons: Back to the Basics, Part One
- What Do You Want Me to Learn, Lord?
- The Power of a Schedule
- Fear and Worry or Trust and Rest?
- The T-Shirt Caper
- Christmas Peace and Joy
- Teaching Kids to Be Grateful
- The Example We Set For Our Kids
- Prayer and Fasting for the Homeschool Mom
- Looking Down the Road to Prepare Your Children
- How to Do Bible Time for Preschoolers
- The Well Planned, Well-Executed Homeschooler’s Summer
- Whose Work Is It?
- The Homeschool Chore Team
- How to Schedule Your Homeschool Day
- What to Do?
- Power in Discipling Children
- Christmas Joy or Christmas Failure?
- 3 Key Steps to DeStressing Life with Children
- Simplified Meal Strategies
Homeschool
- Three Crucial Steps to Fruitfully Start the Homeschool Year
- Sorting Out Decisions
- Seven Important Reasons Why Homeschoolers Should Give Report Cards
- A Homeschool Secret
- Homeschooling with Textbooks
- Scripture Memory and Bible Copying – Part 4
- Scheduling for Priorities and Flexibility
- A Voice for Homeschool Christian Textbooks
- School Year Preparations
- Our Desire for a Meek and Quiet Spirit
- Quietness, Confidence, and Strength
- First Day of School
- I Just Want To Be a Mommy
- Homeschool Textbook Curricula
- What Has Homeschooling Done for Us?
- Seventeen Down – Thirteen to Go
- A Mother’s Influence
- Decisions for the New School Year
- How to Homeschool a Dawdler
- School Year Planning
Dad's Leadership
- Time
- Trade Ya
- Don’t Be a Squirrel
- Grounded in Christ, Your Children – Part 1
- A Godly Legacy – Part 7
- A Godly Legacy – Part 6
- Dictator or Servant-Leader? – Part 1
- An Exercise of the Will – Part 2
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 6
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 5
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 4
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 3
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 2
- Protecting Against Deception – Part 1
- Don’t Let Balaam Seduce You
- Leading in Which Direction?
- Are You on a Collision Course?
- Can Dads Influence Their Children’s Spiritual Outcome? – Part 9
- Can Dads Influence Their Children’s Spiritual Outcome? – Part 5
- What’s Your Excuse?
Dad's Anger
Emotional Stress
Husband and Wife Communication-For Dads
Chores
Scheduling
- The Power of a Schedule
- Simplified Meal Strategies
- The Power of Time
- Three Crucial Steps to Fruitfully Start the Homeschool Year
- Three Top Pieces of Advice for Young Moms Starting Homeschooling, Part 1
- Sorting Out Decisions
- A Schedule Can Help with Depression
- Stress Busters – Part 1
- Time to Schedule!
- From Lazy to Self-Disciplined – Part 6
- From Lazy to Self-Disciplined – Part 5
- From Lazy to Self-Disciplined – Part 4
- Summer Schedules and Chores
- Time Management for Homeschool Moms through Scheduling Perseverance
- Second-Generation Scheduling
- Can a Scheduled Mom be Spirit-Led? – Part 2
- Can a Scheduled Mom be Spirit-Led? – Part 1
- Scheduling for Priorities and Flexibility
- The Scheduling Key
- Benefits of Summer Scheduling
A Dad's Vocation: Employed or Self-Employed?
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 6
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 5
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 4
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 3
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 2
- Making a Christ-Like Living in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Part 1
Raising Godly Children
Family Bible Time
Child Training
- What to Do?
- Power in Discipling Children
- 3 Key Steps to DeStressing Life with Children
- Short and Sweet
- To or Not To?
- Do They Do It?
- The Difficult Child – Part 1
- Where Is the Fruit of Child Training?
- The Retraining Parade
- Expect Children to Be Children
- Training Children for Church
- How Long Does Character Growth Take?
- Pleasant Words Promote Instruction
- What Is a Mother to Do?
- Offensive Child Training
- Child Training
- Pleasant Disciplining