Be not be afraid. Do not let homeschooling your children overwhelm you. Will there be frustration and tears but also joy and laughter? Yes, definitely yes.
Read More »The Best Way to Enjoy the Beautiful Season of Advent – In the School Room
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.
Read More »End of an Era – A Mom Reflects on 25 Years of Homeschooling
Finishing her last lesson plan, Mary Stutzman muses on what Seton has meant to her family over the past 25 years and asks what God has in store for her now.
Read More »The Great Adventure: Finding Joy in Your Homeschooling
Never forget to seek out enjoyment in your homeschooling day. Schedule to your advantage, pursue your passions, make gratitude a close friend, and have fun.
Read More »How to be as Joyful as Simeon at the Presentation of Jesus
What joy must have been in Simeon’s heart at the Presentation of Jesus. Try this month, to seek his help to develop the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Read More »Celebrating Easter Joy in Our Home with Food and Traditions
Traditions always brought Amy Pawlusiak's family together and now, as a mom, she passes them on to her children to make Easter special, memorable, and holy.
Read More »Love, Intelligence and the Most Important Lesson of All
We parents seek to help our children in their academic studies but John Clark reminds us that the love of God is the most important lesson of them all.
Read More »You’re Invited: To Become a Christmas Child… Again
Editor’s note: John Clark is taking a well-deserved rest from his column this week in order to spend time with his family. He asked us to re-wrap this story about ...
Read More »The Greatest Christmas Gift in a Most Unexpected Place
Andrew Murphy invites us to view Christmas from a new perspective, relating a story of the greatest gift he received last year and its surprising setting.
Read More »The Secret to Homeschooling Around the Advent Wreath
Mary Donellan offers that the Advent wreath is the secret to keeping your family's Advent both simple and sacred during the chaos of the holiday season.
Read More »Silliness-Challenged? Homeschool Moms Need Fun and Games Too!
Amy Pawlusiak is a to-do-list kind of mom. But adding some fun and games widened her comfort zone, and teaches her children to have joyful lives too!
Read More »Why We Must Embrace the Joy of Accomplishment
John Clark says that the Seton Graduation is meant to embrace the joy of accomplishment but it's become a celebration of family, friendships and the future.
Read More »More Joy: Why We Should Find Little Ways to Enrich Lives
Man finds special meaning and purpose in inheriting and giving. Dr. Kalpakgian shows how we all have a small role to fill in creating more joy in the world.
Read More »Why the Key to Life is How We Travel to Our Goal
To reach our goal, are all life journeys equal? Dr Kalpakgian delves into Dickens’ David Copperfield to show that the mode of travel really does matter.
Read More »The Mystery Revealed to Transform Your Work into a Labor of Love
Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian draws from Homer, Chaucer, and Robert Frost to show how a creative touch can transform daily work into a labor of love.
Read More »The Transcendent Beautiful: Enemy of the Politically Correct
Leaders in Orwell’s and Huxley’s worlds fear beauty. Dr Mitchell Kalpakgian uses Hopkins’ poetry to reveal why: it has power to lift heart, mind, and soul.
Read More »Fishing in Canada: Why It’s Important to Go on Family Vacation
John Clark shares childhood memories of boating and fishing with a military veteran for a Dad. He's convinced that vacations should be done as a family.
Read More »Homeschool Horrors and Joys: You’ll Miss Those Days
By Mary Ellen Barrett | Recently, a young homeschool mom was relating to me a day she had earlier in the week. She has several young children, toddlers and babies, and that day was filled with spills, diaper problems, flooded tubs...
Read More »A Spirit of Hope: How to Thrive in a Culture of Despair
by Emily Molitor | We live in a society that is anti-hope. We are bombarded by stories of death and despair, rather than stories of hope.
Read More »Do You Have Christ’s Joy?
Before Christ went to the cross, He prayed to the Father and expressed His will that all of His followers possess “the full measure of His joy within them.” There ...
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