Leaders, Socialization, Support Groups
by Rebecca Kocsis & Katie Julius A homeschool community can make all the difference for both you and your children. It can provide support, encouragement, resources, friends, and educational opportunities. Finding a homeschool group that fits your family’s needs...
Decisions, Encouragement, Socialization
by Katie Julius Dance, piano, soccer, robotics, cooking, martial arts, musical theater, Spanish…the list could go on. The number of curricular and extracurricular classes, lessons, and programs offered to homeschooling families, especially in California, has...
Convention, Curriculum, Exhibit Hall, Family, Socialization
By Monica Irvine, Convention Speaker for CHEA’s 35th Annual Homeschool Convention, Parents, you are not perfect. You will not always parent perfectly. Of course the Lord knew this, yet He still believed that the very best people to raise His children were you...
Family, Mothers, Socialization, Support Groups
by Penny Ross, Speaker at CHEA’s 35th Annual Homeschool Convention “Go to a Park Day! Make some new homeschool friends and ask your questions!” I see this advice over and over again on Facebook groups in response to someone’s first post or initial question or...
Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Household Management, Mothers, Socialization
by Karen D. Koch Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday—probably because of family and food, and the noticeably lower materialistic nature (and hence, stress) of the day. During the two years I lived overseas back in the 1980s, it was the holiday I missed the...
Classes, Curriculum, Family, Homeschool, Mothers, Socialization, World View
by Karen D. Koch Over the years friends and strangers have asked about our homeschooling. I am careful about my responses because I don’t want to come across the wrong way, but I’m often shocked at some people’s comments. Once an...
