Steve and Teri Maxwell have been married for over 46 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 over 30 years, and we’ve combined many of their early newsletters so they’re easy for you to read: Just Around the Corner, Volumes 1 and 2. For only $10, you’ll receive nearly 800 pages of encouragement. The set would make a perfect gift for any parent!
See all the Mom's Corners
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Recent Seriously Dads
- Wide Path to Destruction
- A Deep Ugly Root
- Neither Ditch
- Victim or Owner
- His or Mine
- The Surprise
- Stoking the Wrong Fire
- Disconnect
- Decks, Dogs, and Marriage
- Did Not Hear You
- What You Love
- Easy or Difficult
- Wants Over Needs
- Low or High View
- Psalms
- Spring is Here
- The Worst Idea
- Excitement of the Hunt
- Embracing a Cactus
- How Is it Going
Recent Mom's Corners
- Contentious Spirit or Biblical Respect
- Patiently Waiting
- Faith or Anxiety
- Can You Let Go?
- When Homeschooling Ends
- May Not Be Popular
- A Word Fitly Written
- CHRISTMAS DECORATING
- A Grateful or Murmuring Woman?
- Right Thinking
- Tough Question
- Two Are Better Than One
- The Productivity Key
- CHILDREN’S SUMMER CHORES
- Are They Fighting?
- Not in Control
- Self Discipline for Our Children
- Bible Reading
- SIMPLE BUT STRATEGIC WAYS TO TAKE THE STRESS OUT OF CHRISTMAS
- Casting Cares
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
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
- Schedules and Chores
- The Productive Summer Schedule for Homeschoolers
- Prioritizing Relationships That Matter
- Grandma’s Lessons: Back to the Basics, Part Two
- The Power of a Schedule
- 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
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
- Pleasant Words Promote Instruction
- What Is a Mother to Do?
- Offensive Child Training
- Child Training
- Pleasant Disciplining