This priestly advice given to John Clark on his wedding day changed what he saw in the mirror. Try it and you may never look at a mirror the same way again.
Read More »Rejoice and Be Glad The Lesson of Groundhog Day
Homeschool Dad John Clark thinks it’s fair to say that homeschooling can be a bit like the movie Groundhog Day but maybe that’s what is so great about it.
Read More »For Father Papa, Every Day Was Christmas
Father Papa was a friend of Seton and of John Clark. Mr. Clark asks you to take a moment so he may introduce you to his friend, a most remarkable priest.
Read More »What If Heaven is the End?
As a Catholic homeschooling father, John Clark dreams that his children ultimate destination is the perfect happiness of Heaven. To call Heaven their home.
Read More »You Don’t Know…What You Don’t Know
A return to his college theology class, twenty-five years later, taught John Clark that homeschooling is not about simply placing books in front of our children, but in systematically teaching our sons and daughters about God and about how much God loves them.
Read More »The Economics of Cheerleading for the Seton Class of 2018
After writing Seton’s first online high school economics course, John Clark wants to compliment Seton's graduating seniors on their entertaining and technically excellent essays and their impressive thought process.
Read More »Playing with Power – The Secret to Raising Strong Daughters
John Clark on why playing games with our daughters on the living room floor can yield greater results than meeting with a bevy of executives in a boardroom.
Read More »The Secret to Finding the Happiness of Lent
John Clark says Lent is a reminder of the end for which God made us, which is to see Him face to face and share in His happiness. Everything else is dust.
Read More »Where’s the Social Justice in Our Largely unChristian World?
For homeschoolers to make a difference in a largely unChristian world we need to command the tools of social justice - because it is a very Catholic notion.
Read More »We Always Had Christmas Lights
John Clark remembers a family tradition that grows brighter with time - how a father showed by example the importance of Christmas lights to his seven sons.
Read More »St. Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Catholic Homeschooling
Homeschooling dad and blogger John Clark opines on St. Thomas Aquinas, the virtue of perseverance, and its relation to the Catholic Homeschooling family.
Read More »When You Feel Like Quitting – Remember Why You Homeschool
John Clark says when we hit rough spots and consider quitting, remember that we homeschool to give our children a gift so great that it can never be repaid.
Read More »All That Matters – Bringing Our Children Closer to God
Around this time every year, John Clark opines, we parents must make educational decisions for our children, decisions to bring our children closer to God.
Read More »Why Graduates Must Learn to Graduate From Themselves
Enough of the selfies! Refocus on others. John Clark insists that your most important graduation is the one you make from being so absorbed with yourself.
Read More »In Celebration of the Imperfect Father’s Day
Dads, if you think that you're not the father you should have been, that you missed your chance to be a good father, John Clark asks that you consider this.
Read More »The Priceless Gift of Faith – A Mother’s Gift to Her Children
John Clark says that passing on the Catholic Faith and that love and sense of the Faith, was his mother, Mary Kay Clark's greatest gift to her children.
Read More »The Question Non-Christians Should Ask – But Don’t
Christians get many questions by those who don’t really want answers but John Clark wonders why this question, for which he has no answer, is never asked.
Read More »Teaching Our Children to Defend the Resurrection
John Clark wants us to teach our children to argue, so that they will be well-prepared when the world, with its doubts and questions, argues with them.
Read More »What I Gave Up By Not Being A Priest
John Clark turns the too-often used counsel for young men upside down with this advice to his sons: 'Think of what you will give up by not being a Priest'.
Read More »5 Great Movies to Enjoy for Quality Time With Your Family
From the 20 “All Time Most Popular Articles”: John Clark looks back at five movies he watched again and again with his family while growing up, reflecting on what makes family movie night so memorable.
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