The following article is based on Ginny Seuffert’s column ‘Answering Relatives’. One of the difficulties we home schooling parents, and students, face is remarks by relatives who do not understand ...
Read More »Teaching English in Primary Grades
We often receive phone calls from parents who ask about teaching English to their children in grades one through three. They wonder why we teach English when it is not ...
Read More »Little Things
Sister Josefa Menendez, who has not yet been declared a saint, but whose writings have been personally recommended by Pope Pius XII, gives us a great example of the quiet way to sanctity through devotion to daily duty. Sister Josefa received many visions from Our Lord. She obediently wrote His message of love, now published in the book The Way of Divine Love. During the Lent of 1923, Jesus revealed to her His sufferings, both physical and mental.
Read More »Motivation
We are frequently asked “How do I motivate my child? He is simply not interested in his studies or doing his schoolwork!” Most Catholic parents home school because we are ...
Read More »The Importance of Conferences
By the time you read this column, I will be packing up every other weekend or so and traveling to Catholic home schooling conferences all over the United States. Faithful ...
Read More »Rome on Parental Rights in Religious Education
Seton shares how parents have the right to prepare their own children to receive the sacraments, and resources to help them.
Read More »Book Reports
Book reports can be a challenge for students, but Ginny Sueffert shares how to make them a little easier for your homeschooler using Seton's Lesson Plans.
Read More »6 Tips to Improve Sacramental Family Life
Many Catholic families live their Faith only one hour a week by attending Sunday Mass. The rest of the week, the cares of the world impinge on the family, and the Faith is practically forgotten.
Read More »Is It Cheating?
Ginny Seuffert shares how with some help from the lesson plans, and a right attitude, we can decide when helping a child ceases and doing his work for him begins.
Read More »Reading for an Assignment: How to Be Successful
Reading for an assignment is not like reading to unwind before bedtime, or scanning the comic section of the newspaper, even if you enjoy “school reading” as much as “pleasure reading.”
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