It is no exaggeration to say that providing young people with a sound education in the faith represents the most urgent internal challenge facing the Catholic community in your country. ...
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God’s Trees Color-In
Caption this image! What is your favorite little prayer to Mother Mary? Share your child’s comment below! What could be more fun than coloring a picture? Sharing it with someone! ...
Read More »Activity Page – Fruit, Stars & Science
Creating Young Scientists
Who says Science has to be boring? Kathy Rinker shares just how much fun the Young Scientist Series is, and it is now available at Seton Educational Media!
Read More »Courtesy, A New Angle on an Old Idea
I spent the first weekend in June at the one-day Immaculate Heart of Mary Conference in Lafayette, Louisiana. It’s one of my favorite places on earth, and the enthusiasm of ...
Read More »Making Summer Learning Fun!
Keep up with your child’s learning even with all the fun in the sun this summer with these helpful ideas, and make plans to attend Mass in the mornings!
Read More »Reflections on Homeschool Conferences
I’m writing this post on an airplane heading towards on of the many Catholic homeschooling conferences I attend each spring and summer. Attendance at conferences is up this year after ...
Read More »Top 10 Reasons to Read ‘Ballad of the White Horse’
by Kathy Rinker Ok, so in my first post I outlined for you the praises of Chesterton and his writings. In my second post, I provided an assessment of Seton’s ...
Read More »Your Questions… Answered
Why do you have specific books assigned for the first and second quarter book reports in the elementary grades? Since our graders cannot be familiar with every book that might ...
Read More »Assessing the New Edition of ‘Ballad of the White Horse’
by Kathy Rinker I finished reading Seton’s edition of Ballad of the White Horse last week. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Now, I am by no means a ...
Read More »Praise for ‘Ballad of the White Horse’
by Kathy Rinker Great poetry seems difficult to come by these days, doesn’t it? This is one of the many reasons why Seton has carried G.K. Chesterton’s book Ballad of ...
Read More »From Our Families: Discipline Secrets
Our question today is brought to you from a homeschooling mom: “What do you do with unmotivated kids, who try to beg and plead their way out of doing school ...
Read More »Military and Uniformed Service Academy Prep Program
A fully-accredited, Catholic high school program providing an Advanced Academic Diploma designed to prepare the student for admission to a Military.........
Read More »We Homeschool for Life! Meet the Jackson Family
One afternoon, while I was sitting outside watching my last brain cell fly away hand in hand with my last nerve cell, my neighbor came by. She sat beside me ...
Read More »Fatima and Lourdes
Many Catholics know about Our Blessed Mother’s apparitions at both Fatima and Lourdes. Many also believe that the message of Our Lady of Fatima is of vital importance to the ...
Read More »Obstacles
As readers of this column know, I recently wrote a book called Who’s Got You?, in the hopes of reminding Catholic fathers that theirs is a great calling. As part ...
Read More »Positive Changes: How and When to Tailor Your Curriculum
A big benefit of home education is the opportunity to make sensible changes or additions to the curriculum to accommodate a particular child’s learning needs. Of course, the wise homeschooling mom realizes that modification needs to be implemented...
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