So here we are with another school year looming upon us, and the panic mode is starting to set in with moms who follow the traditional September ...
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by Lorraine Espenhain | So, there you have it, dear reader, the secret to all grown-up reading. Now let’s open up a picture book and paint away…
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by Emily Reshwan | Embrace the challenge of transforming your heart through joy and beauty. This is but the beginning, the first seeds of wonder.
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by Mary Kay Clark | Before the school year starts, take a good week to look over all the courses, the textbooks, and tests. Take the time to become familiar with how it all should work.
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by Luiggi and Jennifer Pérez | Being a Homeschooling family is not pure coincidence. We believe that God and our Blessed Mother have given us the mission to educate our children and ourselves.
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by Lorraine Espenhain | How do we do it? He is the One who teaches us all things and gives us the spiritual understanding that we possess.
Read More »Living the Liturgical Year: Make ‘Ordinary Time’; Extraordinary!
by Monica McConkey | As Catholics, we enjoy our own special calendar, celebrating the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter as well as a significant number of weeks of Ordinary Time. It’s a shame really, that it’s called ordinary, because it’s still filled with plenty of Feast Days and celebrations that are quite extraordinary!
Read More »Simplifying the Command Center!
by Abby Sasscer | As promised, I will be giving you a quick tour of our Command Center which may be helpful as you gear up for another school year this September.
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by Angela Wilhelmi | How are Catholic families made holy through homeschooling?
Read More »Why did God Take It Away from Me?
by Lorraine Espenhain | Sometimes God allows us to go through seeming seasons of loss in our lives in order to move us into what I call 'greater gains'.
Read More »St. Clare of Assisi: Saint of the Eucharist
Those in the Franciscan Order, as well as lay people who are in the Franciscan Third Order, will be celebrating the feast of St. Clare of Assisi on August 12. ...
Read More »No Time for Patience? Give Me 3 Minutes, and You’ll Believe.
by Liz Beller Patience seems to be yet another one of those virtues that has quickly evaporated in today’s fluid society. Changes in technology are rapidly advancing and with each ...
Read More »The Reading Café: Seton’s Online Catholic Book Club
by Lorraine Espenhain | The benefit of this Reading Café is to discuss good, spiritual books so that we can share insights with others, and learn what they've discovered!
Read More »Simplifying Our Office and Classroom!
by Abby Sasscer | Our classroom is a place where any of the children can go if they want to do some quiet reading or if they need a peaceful place to homeschool.
Read More »Homeschooling 101: A Little Patience Goes a Long Way
by Marlicia Fernandez | Homeschooling? I had never heard of such a thing, and it seemed strange and maybe a little dangerous. Was it even legal?
Read More »How to Get a Speed-Reader to Remember What they Read
by Lorraine Espenhain | I have a fourteen-year-old daughter who struggles horribly when it comes to reading comprehension.
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by Mary Kay Clark | At Seton, we long ago made a decision to support families with children who have a learning disability...
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by Emily Molitor | I don’t know how my life or my family relationships would be different today had my parents not made the decision to homeschool,
Read More »Why ‘Living in God’ is Actually Pretty Practical… and Crucial
by Lorraine Espenhain | Why couldn’t God have provided a job for my husband in Philadelphia? Why did He feel the need to uproot me from my comfort zone?
Read More »History Professor Reveals Archeological Findings at Global Conference
History Professor Dr. Brendan McGuire had stumbled upon Byzantine ruins, half-buried in the middle of a city block in an unfrequented, impoverished neighborhood.
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