Private Christian Homeschooling at Risk?
Our freedoms to privately homeschool in California are always at risk. We are potentially only one legislative session away from losing our homeschool rights. Attacks on parental rights in California and around the nation have been numerous in recent years, and we at...
“Meet” Jesus and Virtually Visit Israel
What Did Jesus DO All Day? Discovering the Teen Jesus (plus ebook study guide) by Felicia Silcox Reviewed by Karen D. Koch Sometimes in studying the Bible and theology we forget that Jesus lived at a specific geographical location and historical time that can be...
Equip Them for Safety: Teen Driver Checklist
by Karen D. Koch Teenage son calling on cell phone one early August evening: "Mom, something really bad just happened." Driving 70 mph in the left lane on northbound Interstate 5, my 18-year-old son suddenly faced a crisis. His front passenger tire blew out and...
4th Grade Parents — Don’t Miss This!
by Karen D. Koch An amazing and unexpected benefit of having my 4th child when I was 41 is that my little guy is now in 4th grade when I'm 50 and we get to participate in the Every Kid in a Park initiative of the National Parks Service! The Service offers a year-long...
No One Told Me This
By Karen D. Koch In my early days of homeschooling, I remember thinking that once my youngest child was out of diapers that the school part would be easier, or when the kids could take baths alone, or make their own beds, or cook their own meals. . .No one actually...
Crazy Busy
Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem by Kevin DeYoung Reviewed by Karen D. Koch I have spent most of my life striving to complete an impossibly long self-created to-do list that never seems to shrink. When I take some free time, I often...
Homeschool Leader Honored at 34th Annual CHEA Convention
Congratulations to the Support Network Leader of the Year, Sandra Schneider Sandra Schneider, CHEA Support Network Leader of the Year, received her award at the Annual Leadership Conference and Luncheon July 13 at the Pasadena Convention Center. In the glowing...
8 Ways to Ease the Mental Load
by Karen D. Koch I'm weary of being The Knower of All the Things. I've been reading lately about the Mental Load women carry (not to mention the emotional load, but that's another blog post). One article said that for women/mothers (and I'll add homeschoolers), the...
14 Things To Do To Start School
It may be July, but many homeschool moms are already pondering the beginning of the homeschool year. Some families will start in August with the traditional schools in their area. Other families wait until after the Labor Day holiday. Still others school year round....
Re-Discovering Your Home Town
by Karen D. Koch I chuckled while watching Pixar’s Wall-E with my kids the other day when the captain and other characters said incredulously, “I didn’t know we had a pool” and “We have a jogging track?” Apparently they had lived on the spaceship Axiom so long they...