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May 16th and 17th,  Jayden and I attended the NICHE homeschooling conference in Des Moines. Mark and Jacob attended for an hour session with me on Friday morning. The conference was so awesome and motivating. The speakers and breakout sessions are so rich and encouraging. Reb Bradley was the speaker and author I enjoyed most. He spoke on a lot of parenting issues, from discipline to homeschool. The key point of it all was shape your childs heart by teaching them values and to love the Lord. Avoiding sheltering, controlling, and judging others were some of the topics covered. He also did a whole talk on discipline. He pointed out the number one problem today comes from the parents lack of discipline. If children do not respect authority of the parents, it carries over into their teacher, boss, and the law. It makes sense to me and it is evident in the number of problems we have in this country. 
During the conference I had enrolled Jayden in a Science biology lab course. It was two days and she really enjoyed it. There were 15 kids in the class all high school age. They did lots of lab work, and dissections. She got to dissect a heart, brain, lungs, eyeball, and spinal cord. She got very into it and enjoyed telling me all about it. I am so glad I signed her up for the course. She also got lab credit to use for school. I think her strong area is science and medical. It will be interesting to see where it takes her.
Saturday Mark took Luke to his last soccer game. I was sad to miss it. Soccer was fun for him and I enjoyed watching, but there never seemed to be one game that we did not have a time conflict. Soccer is a fun sport, but during such a busy season for all of us. 

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