This is the tenth article in the series How to Get an Elite Prep School Education on a Homeschool Budget. Unquestionably, children from entitled backgrounds will themselves often enjoy lifetimes of ...
Read More »The Family: The Engine of History, and the World
It could be said, without exaggeration, that the family is the engine of the world and of history.
Read More »Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive: Inspirational Traditions from Seton Families
by Christine Smitha | It isn’t easy to keep the Christmas spirit alive, especially after Christmas, when everyone else seems to have forgotten that it ever was Christmas.
Read More »5 Ways to Simplify Your Christmas Week
by Mary Ellen Barrett | Christmas week can be a very stressful one for us homeschool moms, maybe even more so because...
Read More »Creating by Hand: What We can Learn this Advent through Family Crafts
by Emily Molitor | Growing up in a large family, this time of waiting meant baking cookies, reading books, and creating crafts.
Read More »10 Videos To Warm Your Heart this Christmas
As I finish out my blog posts of 2014, let me just say thanks to all of you who have read and contributed to the success of this blog. I ...
Read More »The Foolish Magi: Silly Gifts, Serious Sacrifices & True Love
This famous short story that often appears in Christmas anthologies perfectly captures the Christian ideal of the joy of giving and the virtue of poverty of spirit. A young husband ...
Read More »My Son Won’t Pay Attention to His Studies: How Do I Keep Him on Track?
by Mary Kay Clark | Students like this tend to be overlooked in a classroom situation, and often fall seriously behind in the junior high grade levels.
Read More »Easy Mexican Black Bean Soup Recipe – Simple Kitchen Series!
by Abby Sasscer | We here at the little house on the hills are big fans of black beans.
Read More »A Holy Christmas: A Celebration of the Christian Family
by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | With all the hectic activity of December—preparing for Christmas parties, buying gifts, cleaning the house—it’s easy to forget that we should mainly be preparing our hearts
Read More »How to Tell if You’re Working for God… or for Yourself
by Lorraine Espenhain | If our motives for working give value to our labors for God, how can we be sure that those labors are done for love of God and not to promote and glorify self?
Read More »“God, Make Me Love Poverty… Just Not Yet!” – What Pope Francis Did for Me
by John Clark | Pope Francis challenged me to see the joy in the virtue of poverty. For whatever reason, I got a glimpse of it, and it looked wondrous.
Read More »Twisted or Simple? G.K. Chesterton’s Litmus Test for Knowing Good or Evil
by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | In G.K. Chesterton’s “The Wrong Shape,” Father Brown makes a curious observation that puzzles Flambeau, another master detective like the priest.
Read More »A Family Project to Prepare for Christmas and Keep Homeschooling on Track!
by Dr Mary Kay Clark | As we homeschooling families approach Christmas, it is not easy to keep the children attentive to their studies.
Read More »What Does It Feel Like to Visit Golgotha?
by Dave Armstrong | Golgotha. It's the epicenter of Christianity: our “holy of holies”; indeed, the spiritual center of the entire universe...
Read More »4 Steps To Develop a Personal Code of Standards in Our Children
By Ginny Seuffert | Why develop a personal code of standards? Shouldn’t our children live according to Catholic standards? Studying Holy Mother Church closely, especially the saints, answers that question.
Read More »Follow the Days of Advent! Free Advent 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 »Extraordinary Everyday Saints: Surviving a Steady Diet of Martyrdom
by Bob Wiesner | The Soviet system gave the world more holy martyrdoms in just the 20th century than died in all the previous history of Christianity.
Read More »The Barest of Advents: How I Accidentally Discovered Its Real Meaning
by Mary Ellen Barrett | I wanted a beautiful home for Advent, but instead got sheetrock, spackle, large men with tool belts and very little heat.
Read More »Homeschooling in Mexico: A New Generation of Pioneers
by Pamela Patnode | I had the incredible privilege of traveling to Mexico City for the first International Catholic Home Education Conference.
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