Convention, Encouragement, Getting Started
by Katie Julius Whether this is your first, fifteenth, or fortieth year at Convention, all of the information, people, options, and energy can be a lot. Those who attend Convention often refer to it as “drinking from a fire hose.” You can’t possibly absorb everything...
Curriculum, Encouragement, Planning
by Heidi Mosher This will be the best year ever. Do you tell yourself that, too, at the beginning of every school year while unboxing the perfect curriculum and collecting shiny new supplies? I hope we all have the best year ever, though the “stuff” we...
Curriculum, Encouragement
by Julie Froisland I’ve often thought that we should get a revolving front door for our home. Yes, there are a lot of comings and goings with our family of 10. Beyond that though, we have a steady stream of “others” that come through that door. My adult kids host a...
College, Decisions, God's Plan, Graduation, High School, Teens
by Charity Silvers When I saw that CHEA’s Parenting & Homeschool Conference was going to include an opportunity for high school students to take the ASVAB vocational aptitude exam, I was really excited as taking similar vocational testing when I was in high school...