Ginny’s Gems

Updated for 2024 - Mary Ellen Barrett shares 200 ideas, crafts, and activities for your Advent calendar with books and activities for saint and feast days!

“Some of the most frequently asked questions I receive from high school families are about dual enrollment in college courses. I hope this helps. - Nick M.”

The new Seton Book Report Workbook is key to mastering reading comprehension skills, thinking and analysis skills, and composition and mechanics skills.

Jeff Minick concludes his series on how knowing our and our children's temperaments can profoundly assist us in their education and character development.

This Advent, whatever the age of your children, here are ways to create an atmosphere in your home to settle mind and heart to welcome the Christ Child.

Patroness of music and musicians, St. Cecilia is one of only seven women, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, listed in the canon of the Roman Catholic Mass.

Mary Ellen is grateful for having to slow down and enjoy each other’s company, and now with clarity, looks forward to new challenges and bright beginnings.

A new to homeschooling mom asks the experts, "My children often turn to crying when I try to explain a concept. How do we learn to work with each other?"

John Clark says that in a year that God has watched over us so carefully we are called to offer the gift of gratitude to the Infant King and to each other.

Among Michele Evans advice for new homeschooling families “trust that God will take care of you. Take a deep breath and pray, and everything will work out.”

A treasure of first day of school photos from Seton Home Study School families. From Pre-K through high school, these fresh, happy faces are an inspiration.

Teaching our children to embrace difficulties and solve problems is a life lesson that will add value to their work and position them for future success.

Seton Director Dr. Mary Kay Clark has tips on what school work must be turned in and offers an answer about kindergarten studies that may surprise you.

When homeschool fathers need inspiration, ask for St. Thomas More’s help, to be like him, “God’s good servant”, offering love and sacrifice for our family.

Homeschooling is the best decision Mrs. Pierlot ever made as it lets the children blossom into who they actually are, not who society might mold them to be.

Treasure your easy-going phlegmatic child, encourage them and guide them to engage life and you will give the world a calm, collected, and wise human being.

Seton Historian Bruce Clark ponders the story of a trailblazing American aviator and offers an alternate explanation of her mysterious disappearance.

A vanity license plate put it into focus. Answers to life questions suddenly clicked. It was as if a ray shone from the heavens to spotlight the road ahead.

Seton Counselor Cai Acuna shares why Filipino families in the Philippines and around the world find Seton Home Study a perfect fit for their family values

This guide to the keys that are part of your enrollment with Seton Home Study School will save you time and effort and help you have homeschooling success.