This Easter season, many new Catholics will be entering the church. It wasn’t very long ago that I took that same leap; so, when my husband and I were asked ...
Read More »Socialization or Peer Pressure? How I Got One and Avoided the Other
by Laura Whitehead | Socialization: a word that many homeschooling families must deal with on a daily basis. It is thrown their way at dinner parties, family gatherings, church functions, and grocery stores.
Read More »The Church’s Special Meaning for Each Day of the Week
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90:12 The seven days of the week. Sometimes they are filled with joy and happiness; ...
Read More »Holy Week: The 3 Holiest Moments of the Whole Year
We stand on the threshold of the holiest week of the year. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, when we recall both Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem ...
Read More »5 Reasons to Revive the Powerful Practice of Reading Aloud to Your Children
Before television and video games, books were a primary source of pleasure for human beings. Beyond the simple good of reading books to oneself, there was the added pleasure of ...
Read More »5 Ways to Ease Homeschooling Anxiety
by Gary Zimak | Let’s face it; one of the biggest problems affecting homeschooling families is anxiety.
Read More »3 Must-Have Books to Help Children Get the ‘Why’ of Lent
During Lent, we want to stop and prepare our hearts for a penitential time of fasting, alms-giving, and prayer. Lent does not have to be just a time of personal ...
Read More »5 Things to Know about the Immaculate Conception
The following is from a homily concerning the Immaculate Conception preached on December 8, 2014, by Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula of Human Life International. The Blessed Mother first referred to ...
Read More »5 Ideas to Spruce Up Homeschooling Before Spring
by Anna Eileen | Here are some tips on how to be more efficient in finishing up the year that I learned while I was a Seton high school student.
Read More »A Homeschool Student’s 5-Step Guide to a New Year
by Mary Anslinger | Here’s a list of resolutions I have for every year—ones that never grow old.
Read More »Biting Off More Than I Can Chew? My Problems as a Stay-at-Home Mom
by Malia Lewis | I wasn’t always a homeschool mom or a stay-at-home mom. I worked a 9-to-5 job with my children in before-and-after school care programs, in addition to school.
Read More »6 Family Activities to Honor ‘Celebrate Life Month’
Six family activities to celebrate life and cultivate at an early age an appreciation for the beautiful gift of life which God has bestowed on us.
Read More »Community Giving: Growing as a Family by Sharing with Neighbors
by David Ward | We are all part of a larger community, and we need to foster strong connections with our community.
Read More »Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue: Lead Us H.O.M.E. to Christ
by Angela Wilhelmi | Mary embodies four cardinal virtues that we should imitate in ourselves, so that she can lead us to Christ: Humility, Obedience, Modesty...
Read More »Journey to A Simpler Life: The Unexpected Joys of Becoming a One-Car Family!
Open yourself to God’s will and your dreams will take you down a path you never imagined. Five years ago, my husband, Jason, had a dream. He was inspired to ...
Read More »Follow the 12 Days of Christmas! Free Christmas Activity
Maria Nauman, a Featured Family on SetonMagazine.com, has hand-drawn and inked out a beautiful, full-page activity for you and your children to enjoy! Pin it up on your fridge, and ...
Read More »How Far Is It to Bethlehem? Thousands of Miles, or Inside You?
by Michele Suner | How far is it to Bethlehem? Not very far. Shall we find the stable room Lit by the star?
Read More »The Silent, Christmas God: Hiding in Stables & Tabernacles
by Andrew Murphy | If we journey back almost 2000 years to the city of David to the small town of Bethlehem on the eve of the first Christmas...
Read More »‘O Night Divine’: Why Christmas Getting is Just as Important as Giving
by Nikolai Brelinksi | When I left the church that night, wishing friends “Merry Christmas”, I felt that Christmas love in the air.
Read More »Jesus at Walmart: 10 Hilarious Homeschool Moments from Seton Families
"Daddy taught us that Jesus was angry because the people had turned the temple into a Wal-Mart."
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