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High School

Thinking About College and Career Choices

I’m a homeschool mom.  I’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to stay home with my children and teach them, and I’m very grateful to God and to my husband for this wonderful life. I’ve also become a homeschool reviewer because I strongly believe that reviews help moms choose what curriculum will work for their […]

Review: Youth Virtue Journal

  The Youth Virtue Journal is a slim ring-bound workbook with a huge goal: to help teens choose virtues. Working with a mentor, teens will learn how to be attentive, content, forgiving, gentle, helpful, honest, obedient, perseverant and respectful. The booklet contains a form for parental input as well. Each of the nine chapters contains […]

Wow, I’m Glad I Went to that Conference!

This year I went to our annual homeschooling conference only because my teens wanted to attend and my friends had put so much effort into it. It wasn’t something I really wanted to do.  After all, life is busy enough without taking an entire day off. I didn’t feel discouraged, so did not need encouragement; […]

Statistics and Homeschoolers: A Helpful Summary

Fifteen years ago, when we had just begun homeschooling, I met a mom at a party.  She told me she would never homeschool because studies showed that children from high income families did better in so many ways…so she needed to go out and make money as soon as they were in school.  I tried […]

Winter Sleep

In the winter, our whole family seems to need more sleep.  We go to bed earlier, get up later, and repeat.  Daily.  And yearly. Now, I know we’re not the only ones.  In fact, I’ve heard that this is a normal physiological response to winter.  I’m so thankful that we can just rest as we […]