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Read More »Academic Integrity: An Essential Virtue in Our Homeschools
Truly now, more than ever, we must teach our children the virtue of integrity so they can stand for truth and not collapse even under stress.
Read More »Welcome to the Stay-at-Homeschooling Mom Podcast
Meet two experienced homeschooling moms and their podcast to encourage, inspire, and amuse homeschooling parents. Life just got better. A little over twenty years ago, a friend and I sat ...
Read More »When is the Best Time to Call a Seton Academic Counselor?
Is there a better time to call a Seton counselor? Should my child do every lesson in his workbook? How do I balance teaching my children and keeping our home tidy? Seton Home Study Director Dr. Mary Kay Clark answers these questions and more to improve your homeschooling experience.
Read More »‘Your Children Can Change the World!’ Ginny’s New Book!
Her popular series now available as a book, Ginny Seuffert shows how in 14 ways, homeschool prepares children for East Coast Prep School level success!
Read More »How to Develop (& Test) Judgment in Children
by Ginny Seuffert | Teaching our children to develop good judgment will lead to a future dominated by well-formed, deeply committed Catholic leaders.
Read More »The 2015 Homeschool Conference Season
The 2015 homeschool conference season is off and running, thanks to the St. Louis Catholic Homeschool Conference, where speakers such as Patti Maguire Armstrong and Andrew Daub discussed topics from ...
Read More »4 Tips to Forestall Hasty Conclusions
by Ginny Seuffert | John Taylor Gatto’s 13th theme, “Encourage children to develop a habit of caution in reaching conclusions” is especially important in our own times.
Read More »5 Ways Your Child Can Become Familiar with the Fine Arts
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 »Good Manners and Politeness are Keys to Student’s Success
by Ginny Seuffert | Theme 4: Repeated exercises in the forms of good manners and politeness. Gatto’s fourth theme is that elite private boarding schools offer their students repeated exercises in the practice of good manners and courtesy based on the utter truth that politeness and civility are the foundations of all future relationships and the key of access to places a person might want to go.
Read More »Why Learning About Courts and Corporations Makes Better Leaders
by Ginny Seuffert | Gatto’s Third Theme is that students must gain insight into major institutional forms including courts, military, and corporations, as well as the ideas that drive them. By truly understanding these institutions, students mature into responsible citizens who will not be persuaded by opinion-makers in the major media, but will be capable of forming intelligent, independent judgments, and then acting on them.
Read More »How Better Writing and Public Speaking Help Students Succeed
by Ginny Seuffert | Every student must have strong background in both composition and public speaking. The best way to teach your child how to write is to enroll in Seton’s English program and follow the lesson plans closely, but in my experience composition is the last assignment parents and students tackle.
Read More »The #1 Most Common Obstacle to Homeschooling
Families grapple with discipline in the home. Ginny Seuffert tackles an aspect of it by making etiquette part of and not an obstacle to homeschooling.
Read More »The 3 Marks of a Quality Catholic Education
Every Catholic homeschooler knows the marks of the church – One, holy, catholic and apostolic. We recite them in the Creed at Mass, and they remind us of the nature of our Church. In much the same way, Catholic homeschooling has marks and characteristics too.
Read More »6 Tips to Surviving Christmas
Sometimes it seems like the work for Mom is never ending in our large Catholic families. By Thanksgiving, the first quarter assignments have been completed and the homeschooling is clipping along nicely. Then Bang! Along comes the Christmas season, doubling the work load but halving the class time! It’s more than a little discouraging!
Read More »5 Tips and Tricks for Teaching Math to Tikes!
Little learners still have to memorize their math facts— addition, and subtraction—and Mom, or in this case Grandma, still has to drill them. Each time I open Math 2 For Young Catholics to one of those long drill pages, I think to myself that it must seem like approaching Mt. Everest to a little kid.
Read More »Will Common Core Requirements Keep Homeschoolers Out of College?
Concerned that ignoring Common Core will negatively impact your homeschool child's chances at a selective four-year university? Get the answer.
Read More »Ginny Seuffert New Book Release
. You asked for it, and here it is! For years parents have listened to author, lecturer, and homeschool veteran Ginny Seuffert, send home the notion that clear, confident and ...
Read More »A Good Nights Sleep
When you lie down, you need not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24) How can any mom and dad, much less parents of a ...
Read More »Discipline: Establishing Authority
Some years ago, I taught the Confirmation class for our parish religious education program. The class was never rowdy or rude; my students were attentive and engaged – a pleasure ...
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