Learning to discern is not just about asking questions in general. There are lots of good questions you can ask. One of the very best is asking why. The Question Words As I’ve helped in my son’s first-grade classroom this year, we regularly practice trick words. These are sights words that the kids need...
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Day 2: Why We Need Discernment
Okay, ladies. Here’s the thing. We need discernment. And somewhere deep down in our hearts, in the same place where we know we should eat less chocolate and stop binge-watching when we finish this episode (okay, maybe after the next episode), we know it. We know we should be using our brains. We don’t...
Reasons Why
So much of life is just plain easier to handle when we know the reasons why. When I was teaching composition and grammar, I spent a lot of time trying to give context to the seemingly endless rules of English. Most of my students were much more comfortable in their science or engineering classes....