I am homeschooling mom of 7 girls.
Yes, all girls so far.
Yes, so far. We will have as many children as God gives us; we’re reasonably confident (tongue in cheek) that God knows better than we just how many children we ought to have.
No, we are neither Mormon nor Roman Catholic.
Our home is not particularly large. Some might consider it particularly small, given the current American sentiment that every child needs and deserves a private room, television, and chauffeur. Our home has 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and just under 1200 sq. ft.
This is the home we built ourselves. Please notice I said, “built,” not “hired a contractor to build.” This is an important distinction to my husband. This is an important distinction to me. Try to imagine doing it both ways, and I think you’ll understand.
Now imagine building your own house with 7 young children and a wife helping, eating, sleeping (where?!), schooling…and further imagine that you are busy building your house and working a full-time day job with a 52 mile commute each way. Meet my husband. For that matter, read his blog.

Psa 127:3 Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psa 127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.
Psa 127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe;
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth
Without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly
And sent them to bed.

Proverbs 29: 1 He who is often rebuked, (and) hardens his neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

NKJV
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In the above verse I put the word “and” in parenthesis because the NKJV adds it for clarity, but if you read it without the “and” you get quite a different meaning to the passage.

Here is my take on it.

He who is often rebuked (will without a doubt ) harden his neck.

Wow this is a powerful warning to teachers, PARENTS, mentors, work supervisors, managers, pastors etc, about the danger of rebuking too harshly too often.

Do you want those under your care to be hard hearted to instruction?
Do you want those you are charged to shepherd to march determinedly away from wisdom because you did not follow wisdom’s example?

If so then rebuke your children. Do it often to it loudly teach them to tune out instruction and hate correction, because the very next part of the verse tells us of a certainty what will happen when they do.

They will “suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. “

God help me to keep my children’s hearts and teach them to LOVE wisdom…

AND INSTRUCTION!
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Proverbs 1:7

But if this is true then the corollary is just as true. When we as God’s children find ourselves in a situation that is full of chastisement and rebuke, we MUST MUST MUST guard our hearts so that we don’t become the stiff necked/hard hearted fool of Proverbs.
(Incidentally the word for instruction there means chastisement. Not advice, not counsel but a good old fashioned spankin.)

Are you inviting God’s wrath by resisting his chastisement?

Lord I pray that I you will give me the wisdom and humility to bear up under your rod so that I might mature into a man who reflects you glory. AMEN!

in the interest of getting something up …it’s been a while. i thought I’d mention that we have gone quite plumb nutty. We’re to arise at the time of 6am to put ourselves upon the road by 6:45 am in order to make a10 am church service where Dr. Kent Hovind (http://www.drdino.com/) will be speaking.

We have a set of his dvd’s thanks to our old church and we’re all excited to hear him in person!

if you haven’t ever heard him , go and download a debate from his website to watch.