Tara Brelinsky shares seven ways a Dad teaches his children how to know, love, and serve God better than any book, curriculum, or homeschool class ever can.
Read More »A Day in the Life of a Coffee-Drinking, Multi-Tasking, Home-Schooling Mom
With multiple cups of coffee and limitless spoonfuls of love, Heather Hibl manages her homeschooling kids with a mix of being firm, soft, and caffeinated.
Read More »Schooling in Four Seasons with Seton
Jim Shanley This past February, our daughter Katie married her fellow Christendom graduate, Peter Spiering. It was one of those joyful rest stops on our family’s journey of life. In ...
Read More »Disorder in the Classroom: Where it Goes Wrong
Government schools have purposefully chosen to ignore God, and that while students may choose to believe in God, this is a belief which students must leave outside the classroom door. Since the government schools and textbooks reflect this denial of the existence of God in what is taught and how it is taught...
Read More »Home Schooling and the Beatitudes
The Beatitudes are worthy of our study. The first Beatitude, from the Sermon on the Mount by Jesus, encourages us to be poor in spirit. To be poor in spirit, we must empty ourselves of anything and everything that tends to displace Jesus Christ in our lives. Jesus must be first in our lives. He can’t be in second place. He must always be front and center.
Read More »7 Tips To Improve Homeschooling This Year
At the beginning of every school year, I make a little personal checklist as to how I can improve homeschooling in the upcoming year. I don’t always stick to the ...
Read More »The 7 Habits of Successful Seton Homeschooling Families
As part of our ongoing efforts to support our homeschooling families, Seton Home Study School recently commissioned a survey to try to discern the factors that contribute to success in ...
Read More »Mary Magdalene: Standing with Jesus
After Our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead on that glorious first Easter Sunday morning, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, one of the disciples. Only the twelve apostles were the first official witnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection and His appearances (Acts 10:39-42), but she was the first to tell the apostles that Jesus had risen.
Read More »Why Home Schooling?
Father John Hardon, a highly respected Catholic theologian, now deceased and currently being considered for beatification, spoke to homeschooling parents at a conference. This is a selection of his comments. ...
Read More »The Boulder and the Pebble
by Tom Herlihy Driving down a steep mountain road, the driver suddenly slammed on the brakes and skidded to a stop! Stunned by the dramatic turn of events, the passenger ...
Read More »Presidential Election
Every four years, American home schoolers are handed an ideal civics lesson: the presidential campaign and election. With TV coverage, the Internet, historic sites, and even public libraries, every family ...
Read More »How Parish Schools Led to Catholic Homeschooling
Ginny Seuffert explores the somewhat surprising history of the beginning of Catholic homeschooling, and its birth in the fading of parochial schools.
Read More »How to Study Like a Pro in 8 Steps
Seton's counselors pulled together the top 8 tips for helping you learn how to study. With these in your arsenal, you're set for success.A
Read More »Help? You got it!
Question from a Seton Mom: What do those homeschooling moms out there with both school-age children and toddlers do to keep the little ones occupied? I have a child in ...
Read More »Remarks of Cardinal Sanchez to a Home Schooling Convention
Several years ago, His Excellency Cardinal Jose Sanchez was the featured speaker at the Catholic Home Education conference in Manassas, Virginia. He had traveled from Rome in his position as ...
Read More »Truth in Fiction: Home Schooling and Christian Literature
I have been honored and privileged over the past few years to speak at homeschool conferences across the United States and Canada. The key element in all of my talks, and the theme that binds them together, is that Western Civilization is a specifically Christian inheritance that it is the duty of parents to pass on to their children.
Read More »The Art of Friendship
One of the most famous statements of wisdom comes from Dr. Johnson, the eminent man of letters of the eighteenth century England who wrote Dictionary of the English Language, Lives ...
Read More »Under the Sea… Almost
As I have written in prior articles, my thirteen-year-old son Demetrius has long had aspirations to be a marine biologist. And as a parent who seeks to encourage his children ...
Read More »32 Homeschooling Tips for Newbies & Veterans – from Seton Families!
32 quotes and homeschooling tips from Seton families who jumped to share their top tips on organization, staying holy, family time & more! Editor’s note: Seton Magazine asked our Facebook page ...
Read More »Gender and Homeschooling
Figures released by the United States Department of Education show the changing face of home education in the country. One attention-grabbing statistic shows the number of home-schooled children in the ...
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