By Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. What could possibly be more fun than teaching science? Indeed, you have an entire Creation to work with! If you accept that all parts of ...
Read More »Channels of Grace
Parents are ordinarily the primary channels of grace for their children. This primacy as channels of grace for the children comes through the sacrament of Matrimony. The sacrament confers two ...
Read More »Help? You got it!
Question from a Seton Mom: What do those homeschooling moms out there with both school-age children and toddlers do to keep the little ones occupied? I have a child in ...
Read More »Freedom in the Lord
by Clare Schmitt Yoke yourself under the law of God, so that you may be in truth a free man. ~ St. Ephraem the Syrian For most of you, two ...
Read More »Keep the Faith!
by Clare Schmitt “To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.” ~ Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati You’ve ...
Read More »Homeschooled High Schoolers in College: Recipe for Failure?
Dr. Clark, I hope you don’t mind that I’m emailing you directly, but I wanted to reach out to you, as head of Seton, to tell you a little bit ...
Read More »Cultural Heroes
The following is a brief part of a speech the late Dr. William Marra gave in Toronto in 1993. In homeschooling, aim at a certain academic excellence. I claim that ...
Read More »Classics for the Young: Junior High Literature
Simone Weil, a noted Jewish philosopher, remarked, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, ...
Read More »Happy All Saints’ Day!
by Clare Schmitt Every Christian must be a living book in which others can read the teaching of the Gospel. ~ St. Joseph of Leonessa October is over – how ...
Read More »Transitions: How Homeschooling Broadens Your Horizons… As a Parent
Philomena (10) and Dominica (8) recently began playing in a girls’ softball league. Before one of their games, I took a bucket of balls and began to pitch to them ...
Read More »Monday, Monday, so Good to Me
by Draper Warren “Monday, Monday, so good to me”… Start the week with a positive attitude and remember we have the greatest assistance we could possibly want: “The Helper, the ...
Read More »Praise God for the Wonderful Days
by Draper Warren Parent to Parent tip of the week: “Praise God for the wonderful days when your child has finally gotten through his letters without any errors, the house ...
Read More »Enjoy your kids. Be open to learning yourself. And relax.
by Draper Warren Parent to Parent tip of the week: Enjoy your kids. Be open to learning yourself. And relax.” Note: these tips are FROM parents TO parents. We did ...
Read More »Let the Little Children Come to Me
by Draper Warren Happy Monday! We hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing weekend. As you begin your school week, remember that when you are educating your children you are ...
Read More »How to Use Your MySeton Page
My Seton is a part of the Seton Home Study School website which is customized for your family. A wide range of information and services are available.
Read More »If
In times of difficulty, people often turn to art to inspire them. For instance, on the wall of my office, I have a painting called The Triumph of the Innocents. ...
Read More »The Cardinal Virtues
by Father Charles C. Fiore Every Catholic knows the primacy of love in the Christian life. Jesus’ words (Mt. 19:19 and 22:37) about love of God and love of one’s ...
Read More »3 Reflections to Live a Better Lent
Unless you do penance you will likewise perish… (Lk. 13:3) Inquisitive young people have often asked, “What is the purpose of doing penance in Lent?” Some have been told that ...
Read More »Classics for the Young: Middle School Literature
In A Wonder Book and The Tanglewood Tales Hawthorne retells some of the famous classical myths in an imaginative and charming style that captures the universality and moral wisdom of ...
Read More »The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God
One of the greatest of Catholic poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., is best known for his appreciation of the beauty, variety, and individuality (“this-ness”) of God’s creation. As a poet ...
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