Kanika’s hands-on homeschool lesson on the difference between healthy seeds and invasive weeds results in a surprise mix up the next day. While the family sleeps, Curious Kylar decides to plant the invasive species plant—a rapidly growing carnivorous weed—in all of the pots where her siblings planted good seeds. After contending comically with the giant weeds, the family is finally able to remove the bad plants from the good ones. At bedtime, the kids learn the parable of the wheat and tares.
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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...
