Savor the Season by Rick Boyer
In my experience, men have a tendency to fall into two categories: people guys or project guys. Either we like people and don't care much for projects, or we love working on projects and find people to be somewhat of an interruption of our goals.People guys often have...
Why Go To Conventions?
It’s time to decide whether to attend the Annual CHEA Convention. As a new homeschooler, you may look at the list of workshops and all the activities and feel like it will be too much for you. Or you have been homeschooling for a number of years and think things are...
Around the Year in 93 Newberys by Karen Koch
I read a lot in 2014.Each year I compile a list of all the books I read. I usually prepare a fresh sheet of paper and label it with the current year at the top on January 1. Then as I read books, I number them and add to my list. I have done this since 1984 when I was...
The Children’s Symphony by Deb Wallace and Cindy Kirkland
What sound is more beautiful than a symphony orchestra playing a well-practiced piece, with each instrument taking its turn to display its most beautiful attributes? No two instruments are alike. Each has its unique qualities of range and pitch and dynamics—played...
Math Facts: Are They Really Important? by Julie Kotoff
Does the thought of teaching math to your children send shivers of fear down your spine? Do you have this reaction because you weren’t very good at math yourself in school? I am amazed at the numbers of people I meet who feel the same way you do. They say something...
Spelling and Grammar and Latin, Oh My by Barbara Beers
Probably the most frequent lament of homeschool parents over the past three decades centers on teaching their children to spell as well as they read. What begins enthusiastically in kindergarten commonly deteriorates, so that by about fourth grade a student reads...
Project Guys and Building Relationships by Phil Downer
In my experience, men have a tendency to fall into two categories: people guys or project guys. Either we like people and don't care much for projects, or we love working on projects and find people to be somewhat of an interruption of our goals. People guys often...
Pursue Zest
by Tyler Hogan If you’re anything like my wife and me, the past couple of months have left you feeling somewhat besieged. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed—especially in seasons of unpredictable craziness like we’re enduring now. Frankly, that feeling can suck the joy...
Yearning to Learn
by Rebecca Kocsis I don’t know about you, but I thought when I started homeschooling that my kids would love having mommy as their teacher. I was a little disappointed the first time I heard, “That’s not how my teacher did it.” OK, it wasn’t exactly disappointment; it...
Why Do We Need a Legal Defense Association?
With the number of legal contacts and cases in the early years of the modern homeschool movement, it became obvious that the formation of a legal defense association was necessary to spread the cost of legal defense among homeschoolers and make legal representation...