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High School

Delight-Directed Learning, Part 1: Pitfalls

Years ago I heard about Greg Harris’s idea of ‘delight directed learning’.  You may know that Greg Harris is the father of Josh Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye) and Brett and Alex Harris (Do Hard Things and The Rebelution youth movement).  Obviously something worked for his kids, and it just may be related to how they […]

The Official SAT Question of the Day

If your teen is planning to take the SAT, it’s a good idea to practice.  You can spend huge amounts of money on SAT prep classes, or you can buy a practice book as we did.  However, the valuable first step we take is free:   in grade 11 we start doing The Official SAT Question of […]

Review: Reading with Purpose by Nancy Wilson

Would you encourage your teen to hang out, unsupervised, with some of the most charming, persuasive, and articulate non-Christians in the world?  That is what’s happening when they read literature without guidance. Obviously, this can have devastating effects.  So, what is a Christian homeschooling parent to do?  We must understand both the ideas and the […]

You, Your Teen’s Guidance Counsellor

  If you, a homeschooling mom, have teens, you need to become their guidance counsellor.  Yes, really.  Who else is going to guide them through the maze of questions about their future?  Help them discover what they want to be?  Tell them about jobs, apprenticeships, mentors, college, financial aid, scholarships, admission tests?  No one.  It’s […]

Review: College Admission and Scholarships by Lee Binz

So here you are, looking at homeschooling high school.  So many people outsource these best and most important years of homeschooling because they feel inadequate.  They think they might fail their child.  And while that is technically possible, every diligent homeschooling parent can succeed with all the fantastic resources available these days. One resource that […]