A fun trip to the local skate park turns into a teachable experience when J2 and Kelsey join in with some other skaters to poke fun at beginners Kam and Kylar. The tables are turned when the experienced skaters discover that J2 and Kelsey are beginners as well. The “bigs” (Kelsey and J2)
learn that encouraging is better than judging when Jonathan shares the parable of the spec
and the log at bedtime.
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Date Night Return
Kelsey and J2 develop a scheme to avoid their chores while their parents enjoy a night out together. When Jonathan and Kanika arrive back home bearing gifts for anyone who completed their chores, Kelsey and J2 gladly accept—until bedtime when their chore aversion is comically exposed just as Jona...
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Cook-off Competition Catastrophe
Kanika’s creative homeschool activity—a friendly cooking competition between the kids—also serves as a surprise dinner for their grandfather Tony Evans (who thinks Kanika has done all the cooking). When we discover that the four oldest children neglected to follow proper instructions, it’s too la...
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Birthday Party Prestige
When the Evans kids are invited to a friend’s birthday party at a local go-cart track venue, Kam is honored with a well-deserved surprise after a few of his siblings comically miss the moment and have to take a back seat. At bedtime Jonathan breaks down the parable of the place of honor as the ch...