Do I need to return my children’s lesson plans at the end of the year? Yes, please return the lesson plans. Enrollments include the use of the lesson plans for ...

I have been homeschooling for a couple of years, but I think that we could accomplish more with a better schedule and routine. What do you suggest? The trick to ...

Why do you have specific books assigned for the first and second quarter book reports in the elementary grades? Since our graders cannot be familiar with every book that might ...

by Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. Some time ago, we taught our 10-year-old daughter how nature recycles water through the water cycle. I explained to her that this means all water, ...

By Kenneth J. Stein, Ph.D. What could possibly be more fun than teaching science? Indeed, you have an entire Creation to work with! If you accept that all parts of ...

The following is a brief part of a speech the late Dr. William Marra gave in Toronto in 1993. In homeschooling, aim at a certain academic excellence. I claim that ...

Simone Weil, a noted Jewish philosopher, remarked, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, ...

In A Wonder Book and The Tanglewood Tales Hawthorne retells some of the famous classical myths in an imaginative and charming style that captures the universality and moral wisdom of ...

One of the greatest of Catholic poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., is best known for his appreciation of the beauty, variety, and individuality (“this-ness”) of God’s creation. As a poet ...

These articles will cite famous advice, wise proverbs, and prudent counsel as they appear in the classics of literature, in the words of famous characters from the good and great ...

Of the seven Sacraments instituted by Christ, three of them—Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders—may only be received once. Two of the others—Matrimony and Anointing of the Sick—maybe be received more than ...

This summer, across America, commencement speakers will congratulate graduates on their academic achievements, and challenge them to make a positive difference in the world using their new knowledge. These graduates ...

The Cottage at Bantry Bay, Francie on the Run, and Pegeen are charming, wholesome, fun-filled tales of Catholic family life in 1940s Ireland that are humorous and heartwarming. In these ...

While we often tell stories to our young children without books, also be sure to read stories showing pictures in a picture book. Read to your child stories of saints, ...

Raising kids Catholic is what home schooling is all about for us Catholics. However, sometimes parents lose sight of the big picture and focus too much on the immediate picture. ...

The home schooling apostolate is a truly counter cultural movement, a contradiction to the current self-obsessed culture. The home schooling apostolate is evidence of an attitude of service to others ...

In homeschooling, aim at certain academic excellence. I claim that is the bonus that is always thrown in. If you seek first to defer harm, if secondly you permeate the ...

Parents often call our counselors and tell them that their boys don’t like to write. What many do not realize, unless they have several sons, is that most boys don’t ...

Dr. Mary Kay Clark shares some great ideas for your boys to who don't like to be still during the homeschool day.

A few months ago, in February, we considered the decision of a lower court in California as a crisis. The court decided that home schooling is illegal in California unless ...