Ginny’s Gems

A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.

Christmas parties, concerts, shopping trips - December stress happens, but Debbie Gaudino offers five practical ways to keep calm and Keep Christ in Advent.

Mary Ellen Barrett shares her family's traditions, crafts, and recipes through the season of Advent with books and activities for saint and feast days too!

Over 1,000 families have joined the Connect with Seton Families program in seven months, meeting and trading questions and answers about homeschooling.

In our fight for our children’s souls, as we educate them for Eternity, we can ask God for the grace to discern our priorities and the courage to live them.

Rather than live a life of luxury, noblewoman St. Elizabeth of Hungary, chose to serve the Suffering Christ through service to the poorest of the poor.

Karen Eriksson-Lee brings her enthusiasm, empathy, and wisdom to the aid of families needing support to find the right educational path for their child.

For Christmas this year John Clark suggests giving Jesus the perfect gift. “Forgive those who trespass against you.” And embrace the Child Jesus anew.

Nick Marmelejo says for us to remember that the pressures or stresses we have as homeschooling parents should not overshadow the coming of the Christ Child.

Dr. Mary Kay Clark shares why no medal can be as powerful as The Miraculous Medal, given by the Mother of God to St. Catherine Laboure almost 200 years ago.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming, Dr. Clark shares how modifying your homeschooling schedule, with an eye on the essentials, will keep you on track.

When a Children’s Rosary prayer group is meeting a blue twinkling light flashes on the map. Seton Mom Blythe Kaufman gives a tour of the Children's Rosary.

Making this Advent Calendar is a great way to keep your children in the spirit of Advent, and prepare for the coming of the Christ Child.

Mary Ellen Barrett shows us how opening your home to guests in the holiday season is an act of love, which blesses both your family and your guests.

The Hicks children took their ducks and chickens to the Fair. They are thankful for their flexible schedule so they have time to care for their animals.

We passengers on the Queen Mary watched as a magnificent gold and white ship, with all of her lights aglow in our darkening world, moved slowly toward us.

Through blessings, ordeals, and road trips, the Barretto family has learned to be grateful for the gifts that God gives them and to keep their trust in Him.

Get to know Seton staff members who strive to help make your Seton homeschooling experience an easier experience for you and your children.

Yes, to build anew and start again can be daunting but bits and pieces of old things can be worth preserving, in order to make them into something new.

Be creative! You make lapbooks from two file folders for math, science, literature, religion, history, even music. You are only limited by your imagination.